Example sentences of "who had set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original shareholders were chiefly entrepreneurs who had set up their own firms during the previous half century , such as Cornelius Vanderbilt , John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie . |
| 2 | In collaboration with Nigel Neilson , a colourful former SAS officer who had set up his own public relations company , they decided to ‘ sell ’ the royal family . |
| 3 | It seemed especially desperate at a charter fair in my home town as we watched a local housewife who had set up her fortune-telling tent . |
| 4 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 5 | In this , she was encouraged by Shelley Saxon , a former manager with Honey Perriam , who had set up a consultancy practice and worked from an office in the same building . |
| 6 | In some ways , though , Nick — as he insisted people call him — lived in the shadow of his father Alec , a renowned pacifist who had set up a Chair of Peace Studies at Bradford University on the sensible grounds that everywhere else seemed to study war . |
| 7 | Finally , Tom Johnston , a former Labour minister ( who had set up the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and was now its chairman ) , had little interest in matters south of the border , and attended only intermittently . |
| 8 | By the time I arrived in Canberra the person who had set up the passive avoidance work there , Marie Gibbs , had moved to La Trobe , a campus in Melbourne , several hundred kilometres distant . |
| 9 | Some of the improvements may have originated from his brother Jonathan , who had set up a flourishing instrument-making business in Rotterdam . |
| 10 | Antoinette was the best of the Leicester modistes , run by a little French émigrée who had set up shop and named it in memory of her martyred Queen . |
| 11 | On April 2 the police used batons , tear gas and live ammunition to disperse hundreds of youths who had set up roadblocks and stoned and burned cars in shanty towns on the outskirts of the capital . |
| 12 | Recently , Iris had taken an interest in a group of young artists who had set up a studio in a converted barn in Lower Benbury . |
| 13 | His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ . |
| 14 | Yet he it was who had set up a meeting with ‘ Miguelito ’ quite deliberately , knowing that he was going to dupe her into going . |
| 15 | Many West Berlin pensioners , who had set off to visit relatives and friends in the East , looked scared . |
| 16 | Each time I have a pint in the pub at Rhydd Ddu I recall a snowy Easter night spent waiting for mates who had set off earlier to tackle the Snowdon Horseshoe . |
| 17 | The house from which Haverford Downs intended to telephone his ‘ Jottings ’ belonged to the Harrisons , an elderly couple who had set off to visit their daughter in Toronto . |
| 18 | The fifteen hundred men who had set off north from the Forth directly after the first struggle with Siward and who must be less than two hours away at this moment , marching up Strathallan by the way he had come himself , passing Dunblane and Forteviot . |
| 19 | The Emperor , who had set out to find a partner in a European congress found himself instead with an ally engaged in a European war . |
| 20 | It was worthy of the great adventurers and explorers who had set out from its quays , and at that magic time of arrival after a long sea voyage , with the mist-filtered rays of the sun touching the cathedral domes and castle towers , the old city of Ulysses fulfilled and exceeded all her expectations . |
| 21 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |