Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 3 Sendero guerrillas murdered 37 people who had formed a civil defence group in the Andean village of Santo Tomás de Pata . |
| 2 | However , those who had expressed a general interest in politics during the parliamentary mid-term were more likely to see bias on the television and in their papers early in the campaign . |
| 3 | Skipping an Ipswich rink , Roy Cutts , who had achieved a rare distinction of qualifying for all four championships — singles , pairs , triples and fours — went out in the first round of the fours to Egham of Surrey . |
| 4 | Some years ago I worked with a golfer who had achieved a considerable amount of success , winning several amateur trophies . |
| 5 | Robert Hardy — who had arranged a nifty transfer to London — confirms this . |
| 6 | The 138 patients who had recognised a potential condom failure represented only 45% of the 309 who had conceived while using this method . |
| 7 | Mr. Leonard Coote , the out-going Vice-President was elected President for a two-year term in succession to Mr. Andy Heffernan who had completed a two-year term . |
| 8 | The cold cost him an arm and a leg , badly amputated by Würstchen , who had employed a rough-hewn rock to sever nerve , sinew and bone . |
| 9 | I once met an aged man who had waged a single-handed crusade to get the Fellowship to change its official line that Dr Manette 's house ( A Tale of Two Cities ) is based on the old Carlisle House , Soho Square , in favour of No 1 Greek St. He said he felt prouder than if he had won the Nobel prize on the day they admitted they were in error . |
| 10 | His mother died in 1847 and in 1851 his father married Nancy Inman , who had run a successful school near Birkenhead . |
| 11 | The Minister of Labour , Ernest Bevin , received a message which he had decoded for him in a Leeds hotel by Albert Heal , a trade union leader who had run a pre-war escape route for German socialists that still had watertight communications . |
| 12 | In that case it was held that a journalist lacked standing for an order ( of mandamus ) that the chair of the justices should reveal the names of the magistrates who had heard a particular case , but that he did have standing for a declaration that a policy of not disclosing the names of justices who heard certain types of cases was contrary to the public interest and unlawful . |
| 13 | Many of the excursions I made with Wendy Anderson who had become a close friend . |
| 14 | Dawson , who had become a Roman Catholic shortly after going down from Oxford , was an influential member of the group of writers which formed around the new Catholic publishing house of Sheed & Ward from the 1930s . |
| 15 | Who had displayed a friendly interest in her . |
| 16 | Venturi was a university teacher , son of a famous father , Adolpho Venturi , who had made a substantial contribution to the publication of documents of Italian art . |
| 17 | I had a sudden flash of memory of one of the most remarkable women I had ever met — Sister Kenny , a woman who had made a great impact on me because of Clare . |
| 18 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 19 | The elderly lay proprietor , Miss Cordelia Claybury , had inherited the madhouse from her father who had made a good living out of the rich and insane . |
| 20 | Even though there were many writers before Leapor who had made a similar affirmation , not least Katherine Phillips and Mary Astell , it must be recognized that to make such claims was to dispute a widely held belief , based on Aristotelian physiology , that women were by nature soft and therefore inconstant The best known statement of this view of women is Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 21 | In 1715 , Thomas Doggett , an Irishman who had made a successful career in London as an actor , theatre manager and author , instituted a race between six young watermen , donating the prize of an ornate jacket , cash in pocket and silver badge to the winner . |
| 22 | The house had been built by a mill owner who had made a comfortable fortune at the woollen mill which straddled the river Pleshey a mile or two west of Lulling . |
| 23 | HALF A DOZEN years ago , it was almost fashionable for scientists who had made a quick excursion through Britain 's mortality statistics to adopt a righteous posture and preach the message that people were worried about the wrong things ( usually nuclear power ) . |
| 24 | York , who had made a disastrous start to the season , won the North East Division One title with one of his best performances of the season . |
| 25 | Counter attacking , the defence brought in a consultant neurologist who testified , on the basis of medical records and EEG tests , to the likelihood of brain damage in Mr X in childhood , and a second clinical psychologist , who had made a special study of faking and said that Mr X could n't fake an IQ test to save his life , or words to that effect . |
| 26 | To one who had made a special study of refraction , the answer was obvious . |
| 27 | President Hugh Desmond Hoyte reduced the size of his cabinet from 18 to 11 ministers on July 6 on the advice of British accountants KPMG Peat Marwick McLintock who had made a detailed study of the country 's public services . |
| 28 | There was no general ruling on what type of person was best able to carry out these tasks but the two most common groups were : ( a ) the older wife who had a great deal of experience , and ( b ) the young wife who had made a determined effort to acquire as much knowledge and skill as possible . |
| 29 | A point which may be relevant to this was that virtually all those who had made a positive choice of credit type did have bank accounts — a factor which clearly brings bank loans into the range of credit possibilities for people . |
| 30 | In 1954 , he joined Mercedes , who had made a welcome return to racing , and his second championship followed . |