Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [vb pp] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially Peres concentrated his efforts on winning the support of the five Shas members who had abstained in the March 15 confidence vote and of the two Degel Hatorah members , both of whom had supported Likud in the vote . |
| 2 | So a NZ trained PPL would probably be much more at home with UK weather conditions after qualifying than one who had trained in the USA . |
| 3 | The newsreader mentioned a child who had gone to the States for a life-saving operation , a vital double transplant that had never been done in Britain . |
| 4 | After some confusion , the sergeant who had gone to the Fleet Street address offered by Richard Beales , the philandering accountant , had tracked his man . |
| 5 | Employing a night watchman was the solution to his problem , and so without delay Jack was sent to see the wharf manager , who felt that the sprightly-looking man who had served on the Khyber Pass would suit admirably . |
| 6 | The dangers inherent in the situation had been brought home to senior figures in the Reagan camp who had served in the Nixon administration . |
| 7 | The East German government clearly felt this was the only way it could agree to the departure of more than 5,000 East Germans who had flooded into the Prague embassy since the first batch were allowed to leave on Saturday night . |
| 8 | ‘ ’ Many the rich cheeses I pressed for ungrateful townsfolk , Yet never did I get home with much money in my pocket , ’ ' quoted Bacci , who had studied at the Liceo Classico . |
| 9 | Who had heard of the Brontës of Haworth , then ? |
| 10 | ‘ When I was a kid in California my flying instructor was a guy who had flown with the Lafayette Escadrille in France . |
| 11 | But the largest of these was a group made up of assorted Yugoslav military formations , mainly Slovenes and Serbs , who had retreated over the Harawanken Alps from Slovenia on 7 May , together with German units , the White Russian Schutzkorps , camp followers and civilian refugees . |
| 12 | The tall black man who had emerged from the Lincoln was dressed in a dark blue three-piece suit that looked incongruously heavy for such a hot day . |
| 13 | It was a symbolic , humiliating moment for Americans who had begun after the Reagan years to believe that , despite Vietnam , they were still the greatest nation on earth . |
| 14 | Milan Drenchev , the leader of the Nikola Petkov Bulgarian National Agrarian Union ( BZNS ) , was replaced at an extraordinary party congress on Feb. 15-16 by Anastasiya Moser , the daughter of a noted agrarian leader , G. M. Dimitrov , who had emigrated to the USA in the mid 1940s . |
| 15 | It was as a result of the Russian advance across the Urals that many Mansis and Khantys moved away from their homes , the latter crossing the Ob into the middle part of its basin , while some of the Selkups who had lived on the Ob , as well as Kets on the Yenisei , moved off to the north . |
| 16 | When still unmarried , she met a penniless and obviously sick Frenchman who had lived in the South Seas and had come to Koraloona to paint . |
| 17 | Ly Tong , a former South Vietnamese air force pilot who had lived in the USA since the end of the Vietnam War , hijacked an aircraft flying from Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City on Sept. 4 . |
| 18 | Rather more , including Pike , came to shake me by the hand and ask me detailed and unanswerable questions about the nature of the extraterrestrials who had landed in the Wimbledon area . |
| 19 | Mario Chanes de Armas , 65 , who took part in the 1953 assault on the Moncada Barracks and was one of the original rebels who had landed in the Granma in 1956 to launch the revolution , was released from prison on July 16 , after serving 30 years for allegedly plotting to assassinate Castro . |
| 20 | It seems certain that the blend of characteristics at Great Witcombe is attributable to a mosaicist who had worked on the St. Nicholas Street mosaic . |
| 21 | Brian Whitaker , who had worked on the Wapping Post and the Hayling dummy , had applied for the job of editor and , although he had not been interviewed , was taken on by Sutton as his deputy . |
| 22 | The guys at Mill Hill who had worked on the Jura alien had been very cagey about this , apparently , but I think Mr Marr said there was a lot of stuff about mind control . |
| 23 | Maureen , 44 — who had worked at the Gateshead mill for ten years — declared : ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had put my name to it . |
| 24 | In 1867 Nettlefold married a Catholic , Mary Maria Seaborne ( 1835– c .1886/7 ) , who had worked in the Broad Street warehouse , the daughter of Joseph Chamberlain , shoe manufacturer at 36 Milk Street , London . |
| 25 | It was Sid , the Commando with the Cockney accent who had worked in the Kent coalfields . |
| 26 | As a final ironic footnote , in August 1982 , after the showing of a documentary on Yorkshire television on the hazards of asbestos , Liam Beecher of the ITGWU , one of the officials involved in the Raybestos controversy , expressed concern over the effect on the health of the Raybestos workers of their exposure to asbestos in the factory and called for regular monitoring of the health of the 130 people who had worked in the Raybestos Manhattan factory . |
| 27 | Well backed by the huge number of British racegoers who had flocked to the Arc on the first Sunday in October , Dancing Brave started at odds of 11–10 on the Pari-Mutuel to beat his fourteen opponents with Bering second favourite at 11–4 . |
| 28 | Hekmatyar , a hardliner who had opposed the Peshawar Accord , regrouped his fighters in the hills to the south of the city and began issuing demands to the new regime , principal among them being the expulsion from Kabul of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , the ethnic Uzbek militia leader who had fought for the Najibullah regime until switching allegiance to Masud in March [ see p. 38847 ] . |
| 29 | Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , the ethnic Uzbek leader who had fought for the Najibullah regime until switching allegiance to Masud in March [ see p. 38847 ] and who still commanded the most powerful militia in the country , on June 25 called on all mujaheddin factions in Kabul to cease hostilities . |
| 30 | Not far behind them sat David Thomas and his wife , a jeweller who had looked after the Spencer family for years and sold Diana several pieces : but he was still ‘ just a humble jeweller ’ , and was expecting to be tucked away behind a pillar at the back . |