Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [verb] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Patients were included who had presented aged 40 to 64 years with documented features of dementia .
2 His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles .
3 The appointment of Kang , 67 , a Moscow-trained economic technocrat who had served as Premier from 1984 to 1986 , was widely interpreted as indicative of Kim Il Sung 's recognition of the urgent need to reform the country 's highly centralized and largely moribund economy .
4 Some of their careers will be considered in later chapters , but they were not essentially different from those Angevin officers , such as Robert of Thornham , who had served as seneschal of Poitou and Gascony during the crisis of 1202–4 .
5 And there was a picture who had fallen off one of the lorries in Bosnia erm one of the refugee lorries and was running along trying to catch up with her parents .
6 Mgr Augusto Vargas Alzamora , a Jesuit , was appointed in February 1990 as the Archbishop of Lima , replacing Cardinal Juan Landázuri Ricketts , who had retired in 1988 after 34 years in office .
7 PAUL BURNELL the London Scottish prop who had played in 25 of his country 's previous 27 internationals , could not be considered for Scotland 's tour to Australia because of a severe knee injury sustained in the Cardiff match against Wales .
8 The ship 's engines ceased and the crew began throwing down ropes to a white man in a pith helmet who had emerged from one of the quayside offices .
9 Eighty girls who had lived in one of two children 's homes in 1964 , when they had been subjects of a study by Jack Tizard and his colleagues , were traced and interviewed by Quinton and his colleagues , when they were aged between twenty-one and twenty-seven years .
10 On Oct. 6 Klaus Kuron , 54 , who had worked since 1962 for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution ( Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz — BfV ) , gave himself up to the authorities and was formally arrested shortly afterwards .
11 They were by now close together , and the devil , who had got into both of them , whispered in both their ears ; McAllister had meant to ask , Now , how did we arrive at that ? and Dr Neil , who had meant to say something provocative to her , decided to do something provocative instead .
12 The Danakil did not hunt and the Abyssinians , who had wiped out most of the game elsewhere , were afraid to venture into their country , since among the Danakil a man 's standing depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated .
13 Even longer-serving was Mr. Edwin Bromley , who had arrived in 1934 as a member of both the teaching staff and the maintenance department .
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