Example sentences of "who [vb past] missed the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This extended a nice Martian strain in the script , examining how Hampstead life might look to a spectator who had missed the first two acts . |
| 2 | England made a decent 217 , with 68 from Boycott and 59 from Gower ; but after Greenidge and Haynes had got half-way to the target , Richards , who had missed the first match , played as only he can . |
| 3 | The hands on the big wall clock jerked around with the enthusiasm of a convict doing forced labour , the offenders stared at their battered and scuffed shoes in awed silence with the exception of a drunk who had missed the dreaded word MINISTRY and who openly admired Frau Nordern 's figure but who , with the solidarity of the criminal underworld , was instantly hushed into silence by the other offenders . |
| 4 | J. B. Priestley recognised this in the extract chosen by Mr Hamilton from The Good Companions : ‘ … it [ Bruddersford United AFC ] offered you more than a shilling's-worth of material for talk during the rest of the week , a man who had missed the last home match of t'United had to enter social life on tiptoe in Bruddersford . ’ |
| 5 | The primitive inn that catered for travellers who had missed the last ferry is now a modern hotel , and commercial interests have been attracted by the growing number of tourists . |