Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 2 | Mircea Druc , who had stood in the presidential elections as an independent candidate campaigning for the unification of Romania , Bessarabia ( now Moldova and parts of Ukraine ) and Bukovina ( also part of Ukraine ) , was elected leader of the newly formed National Reunification Party on Nov. 4 . |
| 3 | In April , however , our colleagues on the lovely island of Arran managed to upstage their rivals who had featured in the local newspaper a few weeks previously . |
| 4 | The latest addition to our English-speaking group was a Rhodesian who had served in the Rhodesian Light Infantry in the war of Independence and who told endless stories of shooting black terrorists , or ‘ floppies ’ , in cross border raids into Zambia . |
| 5 | A Matagalpa prison official claimed that the US government arranged for officials who had served in the Korean and Vietnam wars to go to Nicaragua to teach the National Guard methods of torture . |
| 6 | Last year the rebuilt Memorial to the Fallen was unveiled in the centre of the town and on it , as well as the names who had served in the military were those of the 11 whose lives were lost . |
| 7 | For example , in 1976 , three DUP councillors in Ballymena boycotted the Remembrance Day service ( an event they would normally have been very keen to support ) because a Roman Catholic priest who had served in the Royal Naval Reserve was reading a lesson . |
| 8 | By 1916 Kisling , who had served in the French Foreign Legion , was discharged wounded and working at his studio , No. 3 Rue Joseph Bara , and Modigliani often worked there with him . |
| 9 | During the plague , the rich people and most of the ministers who had remained in the established church fled from London . |
| 10 | The government 's Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development characterized as " generally acceptable " the report 's recommendation that an apology should be made and that a travel fund should be established to allow those Inuit who had remained in the northern Arctic to visit relatives who had returned to Quebec province . |
| 11 | That exception was Mr Stratton and Mr Brown , who had met in the Armed Forces . |
| 12 | At any rate , so far as Zuwaya are concerned , it was those men who were fifty to sixty years old in 1979 who had created in the previous three decades the marked differences in wealth which did exist . |
| 13 | A villager who had played in the open fields as a boy , or watched the sheep in the common pastures , would have lived to see the modern landscape of his parish completed and matured , the roads all made , the hedgerow trees full grown , and new farmhouses built out in the fields where none had ever been before . |
| 14 | In the following year John Wesley examined the qualities of eighteen exhorters who had emerged in the Cornish Societies . |
| 15 | As he thought this he felt in his heart a voiceless nameless twinge , like a tiny spark , which he chose to identify as a signal , which very rarely came through , from his ancestors who had lived in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw . |
| 16 | Three Catholic cardinals from France and Belgium , who had participated in the 1987 negotiations , also insisted that the agreement was indeed binding . |
| 17 | The gastric pH was measured in the same six volunteers who had participated in the gastric emptying study . |
| 18 | The rest of the staff was W old W J , who had been who had worked in the central Post Office I think in London , very well trained in in er office management and so on so on . |
| 19 | She did n't think to question the treatment her doctors advocated - as a research biochemist who had worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 10 years , the benefits of modern medicine had been instilled in her . |
| 20 | The man who had sat in the front passenger-seat leant down and grabbed the girl 's arm , dragged her through the dirt towards the car and pushed her in . |
| 21 | A smaller than usual proportion of members who had sat in the Good Parliament were re-elected to this parliament , but it is hard to find evidence that the government tried to ensure the election of their own supporters . |
| 22 | The battalion , which had operated in Namibia and Angola , was composed largely of Angolan rebels who had fought in the Angolan civil war , and also a number of white mercenaries ; its members had since been given South African citizenship . |
| 23 | The cause of Hoxha 's suspicion against a communist who had fought in the International Brigades in Spain and with him as a partisan during the Second World War was Shehu 's consent to his son 's marriage into the family of an exiled critic of Hoxha . |
| 24 | They were no less repugnant to tens of thousands of men who had fought in the previous war , as they would have been to tens of thousands more who died in it . |
| 25 | This would seem to accord with the dissenting judgment of Lord Denning MR in Re King , Robinson v Gray [ 1963 ] Ch 459 where the majority of the Court of Appeal decided that a tenant who had insured in the joint names of the landlord and tenant should be entitled to the whole of the proceeds . |
| 26 | Even here more was achieved by the " patriotic labour " men who had originated in the Labour movement and stayed in it , such as Jack Jones in West Ham . |
| 27 | It was these haunted waters which had swallowed up nearly all the 36,000 victims who had perished in the first blast . |
| 28 | He pointed out that 45 players who had competed in the English Amateur Stroke-Play Championship for the Brabazon Trophy the two previous years had turned professional and tried to get their tournament players ' cards in the Algarve . |
| 29 | Later on , however , the names of those who had graduated in the social sciences and especially sociology were greeted with hissing disparagement and barely concealed denigration . |
| 30 | Myln was a former priest , who had abjured in the early 1540s . |