Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It told the story of a man who had searched for happiness on an island like Koraloona , only to be disillusioned , yet unable to tear himself away . |
| 2 | Darwin was a member of the landed aristocracy who had flirted with theology at Cambridge before becoming a highly respected naturalist . |
| 3 | None of the reformed drinkers ( five with biopsy proven cirrhosis ) , who had abstained from alcohol for at least two months had raised values . |
| 4 | Only five of the men who had sailed from Bristol with the Hispaniola returned with her . |
| 5 | Although this represented a success for the government , it made more unlikely any early surrender by cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria , who had escaped from prison in July [ see p. 39001 ] . |
| 6 | They were helped by one-time Allies of the Australians : long-term Portuguese prisoners who had escaped from custody during the summer and now wandered the island in groups of six or more . |
| 7 | The " old guard " revolutionaries who had struggled alongside Kaysone since the 1940s , including Souphanouvong and Phoumi Vongvichit , left the politburo and , probably , active politics . |
| 8 | In 1934 he married Florence , who had trained in Canada as a nurse , the twenty-one-year-old daughter of Hugh McKenzie , a Canadian missionary at Tientsin . |
| 9 | The sentence over the exemption of the abbey was given by the pope himself in his consistory and Thomas of Marlborough , who had appeared as proctor for the abbey , fainted for joy . |
| 10 | June Ritchie , who had appeared alongside Crawford in The Importance of Being Earnest in Nottingham , here played his pregnant fiancee , Shirley , who almost has a miscarriage when Mum leaves her glass eye on the pillow of the girl 's bed . |
| 11 | Following a visit to Rangoon , the capital of Myanma , by the Bangladeshi Foreign Minister , Mustafizur Rahman , in late November , Myanma agreed in principle to take back all refugees who had crossed into Bangladesh in recent months to escape persecution . |
| 12 | On April 28 the two ministers signed an agreement which provided for the repatriation of an estimated 200,000 Rohingya Moslems who had crossed into Bangladesh from Myanma 's Arakan province . |
| 13 | By mid-June these included : 5-7,000 Ethiopian refugees in Yemen , including 1,700 naval personnel ; 3,000 refugees from Assab in Djibouti ; 300,000 people who returned to Sudan from camps near Gambela [ see below ] ; 130,000 Ethiopians in the Sudanese town of Kassala who were reported to be non-Tigreans who had recently left Tigray ; and 30,000 Ethiopians who had crossed into Kenya at Moyale . |
| 14 | In a letter to Archbishop Aethelheard and Ceolwulf , bishop of Lindsey , written 793–6 , Charlemagne asked them to intercede with Offa for certain individuals who had gone into exile with their lord , Hringstan , who had now died . |
| 15 | They had also been joined here by a number of " White " emigres from outside the USSR , that is to say anti-Communists who had gone into exile during or after the Civil War of 1918–20 and had subsequently lived in various European countries . |
| 16 | Before 1781 it had consisted of only eight houses , but in that year the Strutts — who had gone into partnership for a time with the then-needy Arkwright — built the large cotton mill that still stands there . |
| 17 | While the Sussex gentry who had gone to war for religion had to adjust to the need to maintain stability , many of the Puritan clergy could and would not . |
| 18 | She wanted me to phone a number in Zagreb to find out if her husband , who had gone to Yugoslavia for an operation on his liver just before the war , was alive or dead . |
| 19 | On 23 November Leopold tried another tack , using his knowledge of his son 's love for Aloysia Weber , who had gone to Munich with the court : |
| 20 | They were the young Lord Dunglass , who had gone to Munich with Chamberlain as his parliamentary private secretary in 1938 , Chips Channon , an amiable but half-witted American who was Rab Butler 's PPS , Butler himself — a friend and admirer of Chamberlain who worked in the Foreign Office under Halifax — and a fourth as yet unnamed . |
| 21 | The DIA was also anxious to get its hands on Syrian George , who had gone to Switzerland with polar Cap to sit on the wiretaps . |
| 22 | After his wife 's death he married a Miss Drayton who had gone to Jamaica as a single woman missionary teacher . |
| 23 | Herbert came from a breeder who had gone on holiday without realising his owl had laid eggs . |
| 24 | The wren-boys who had gone from house to house on the lorry all day were now scrubbed and combed , playing away cheerfully on raised planks . |
| 25 | Alone of them all , he had been shriven by the Pope — the Bishop would proclaim it yet again — and yet felt no different from the man who had stood on shipboard beneath a sky turned to flame and faced death with no fears and no doubts , for on such a day it was no hardship to die . |
| 26 | Oil Ministers from the member states of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) who had gathered in Vienna for their 93rd meeting on Nov. 25-27 , reached agreement on a cut in output which would involve restricting global OPEC oil production to 24,580,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 27 | Truman owed a personal debt of loyalty to Louis Johnson , who had served as treasurer of Truman 's re-election committee in 1948 at a time when most commentators had consigned the President to ignominious defeat at the hands of Governor Dewey . |
| 28 | According to official accounts of the events of Nov. 13 , the conspiracy was organized by three retired army generals — Jaime Salinas Sedo , José Pastor Vives and Luis Palomino Rodríguez , who had served as heads of the military household during the previous García government . |
| 29 | The former , who had served as mayor of San Francisco , defeated the Republican incumbent John Seymour , who had been appointed by Governor Pete Wilson in 1990 to serve the remainder of his ( Wilson 's ) term . |
| 30 | One man at least was wrongly classed as a tailor , namely Stephen Jenings , who had served as Mayor in 1508 — 9 , and was now the highest assessed citizen at £3,000 ; the same must hold good for other rich tailors , since the craft itself was poorly remunerated . |