Example sentences of "who had recently [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were other gifts , too : new oak doors , given by Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller , adorned the side entrance ; cathode-ray oscilloscopes had been donated by Ferranti Ltd. and Professor Williams ( who had recently received the Hughes medal of the Royal Society ) ; £1 , 000 had come from the Sir Alan Sykes Trust towards the cost of the Sixth Form rooms ; and Mr. Charles Royle , MP and Old Stopfordian , and Mr. David Blank , Old Stopfordian and a recently co-opted Governor , were arranging to provide £100 to endow a Sixth Form Essay Prize in memory of the former 's father , a Governor from January 1923 until his death the previous November . |
| 2 | Jalal Talabani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) , who had recently received fresh assurances of continued Western assistance for Iraqi Kurds [ see p. 38361 ] , had reportedly insisted on a more ambitious scheme involving autonomy for an area twice the size held by Kurdish guerrillas , incorporating the city of Kirkuk , and a clearer commitment by the government to hold democratic elections . |
| 3 | She had a brother , aged 20 , who had recently become engaged . |
| 4 | The Block , built by J.J. Oakes & Son , was duly opened on Speech Day , 17th July 1957 , appropriately by Professor Williams , who had recently become the first recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts , " to individuals who have attained early distinction , with promise of future achievements , in the promotion of arts , manufacture , and commerce " . |
| 5 | One evening Rachel invited her to dinner , to meet some old family friends who had recently retired from academia and moved to London . |
| 6 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 7 | She gave the name of her father , who had recently retired with a substantial pension from a very senior appointment with a multi-national corporation . |
| 8 | Pointing out the pitfalls of much of the past research , he drew on his study of 125 65-year-old men to argue that those who had recently retired were a ‘ transitional ’ group between those still in full-time employment and those settled into retirement ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 9 | Leapor also satirizes the intellectual pretensions of a figure in Crumble Hall who can tentatively be identified as the young William Henry Chauncy who had recently gone up to Oxford : |
| 10 | The proposal came through Branson 's youngest sister , Vanessa , who had recently gone into business as an art-dealer . |
| 11 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 12 | Seeds continued to be upset in the Ladies event and the quarter-finals proved to be the downfall of both the top seed and defending champion Isabelle Wild , and the No. 4 seed Alison Fleming — both girls who had recently completed their final examinations were beaten by Lockhart and Nina Topper respectively . |
| 13 | Two patient subgroups were identified : these were children who had recently travelled abroad ( 11 ) , and children who had an itinerant existence within the United Kingdom , generally living in caravan sites ( 11 ) . |
| 14 | Indeed , the reason for the greater frequency of chronic diarrhoea in this study in comparison with others in the United Kingdom , may be partly explained by the subgroups of children who had recently travelled abroad and those who had an itinerant existance . |
| 15 | But perhaps the greatest personal satisfaction was earned by Gerard Larrousse as he watched Aguri Suzuki finish sixth in the Larrousse-Lola and poke a championship point in the eye of those who had recently stripped the French team of its hard-won rewards from last year . |
| 16 | The first , signed by the outgoing Sandinista government and contra leaders , had agreed that an " effective and definitive ceasefire " was to take immediate effect and that the estimated 10,000-12,000 contras who had recently flooded into Nicaragua were to enter five security zones supervised by the 700-strong force of the UN Observer Group of Central America ( ONUCA ) and the staff of the International Commission of Support and Verification ( CIAV ) . |
| 17 | They were named as Col. Mangwane Khosana , Gqozo 's former right-hand man who had recently escaped from custody facing treason charges , and Lt.-Gen. |
| 18 | It was proposed initially to carry out the project in the London Borough of Southwark since part of the borough was served by Guy 's Hospital and also in the London Borough of Barnet ( since it had a consultant psychogeriatrician who had recently moved there from Guy 's Hospital ) . |
| 19 | A survey in a Southwark Salvation Army hostel in 1987 found that nearly 40 per cent of men who had recently moved in had symptoms which pointed to a diagnosis of schizophrenia . |
| 20 | If the above conditions were not acceptable , then those officers who had recently joined should be allowed to return to their original units as the terms on which they had volunteered no longer applied . |
| 21 | The only evidence we have to shed further light on this question comes from a letter written on the same day by Mr J Nicholls [ see note at end of chapter ] , a Foreign Office political advisor , who had recently joined HQ 5 Corps staff at Klagenfurt . |
| 22 | Laura found enormous fulfilment in discovering old print references and Brian Jones , a soft-spoken , young artist who had recently joined her design team in Carno , proved adept at transferring them on to fabric . |
| 23 | The story relates that an abbot was pouring tea for a young novice monk who had recently joined the monastery to learn kung fu . |
| 24 | Indeed , as Barry Rubin has pointed out in his seminal history Paved with Good Intentions , " Tens of millions of Iranians , particularly those living in the rural villages and even the many peasants who had recently migrated to the cities , accepted these clerical proclamations as guides top proper behaviour towards their King . |
| 25 | A dissenting voice came from a Financial Times reporter who had recently visited the northern town of Kompong Thom , briefly captured by the Khmers Rouges in mid-June [ see p. 37533 ] . |
| 26 | Yet Grigori Medvedev , the chief engineer at Chernobyl in the 1970s , says in his recent book ( see page 125 ) that Soviet-made Geiger counters registered high levels of radiation on men who had not yet been into the zone , and nothing at all on those who had recently emerged from it . |
| 27 | The case described here illustrates brief counselling with a young man who had recently lost his job , and who was experiencing family and other problems . |
| 28 | All he knew was that compared with the trollop he had been with the day before , she was like a princess , a very untouchable snow princess seven years older than he , who had recently lost her husband . |
| 29 | Brennan , 84 , who had recently suffered a small stroke , announced his resignation on July 20 , stating that the " strenuous demands of court work " were " incompatible with my advancing age and medical condition " . |
| 30 | And yet this was also the man who had recently shot a blackmailer through the head . |