Example sentences of "who had [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celia , who had trained as a physical education instructor , now ran the Loxford parish Guides , a swimming group for the disabled , and was Peter 's Deanery Secretary . |
| 2 | But that Wednesday morning , the few customers who had called for an early drink were much more interested in other underwater creatures : four of them , with sleek black skins and disproportionately large webbed feet , circling up and down , and round and round , and sweeping the depths diligently below the weir , streams of bubbles intermittently rising to the surface from the cylinders strapped to their backs . |
| 3 | Dr Owen 's decision to support tactical voting for some Liberal Democrat candidates will surprise senior Conservatives , who had hoped for a simple message of support for Mr Major . |
| 4 | The Maya were an agricultural people who had to contend with a capricious climate . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ I then realised there were people just like me , and people who had gone through a worse hell than me . ’ |
| 6 | Anthony Lake , 53 , a Massachusetts professor , was a former foreign service officer and State Department policy planning chief , who had served as a key foreign affairs adviser to Clinton during the presidential election campaign . |
| 7 | In England a man who had served as a royal official might end as an earl , as did Henry I 's trusted adviser Aubrey de Vere . |
| 8 | Caroline who had moved to a new area was asked by a neighbour to join a committee planning the local summer carnival . |
| 9 | Paige , who had remained in a shocked silence as revelation had poured on revelation , rediscovered her voice . |
| 10 | She felt lost , that her youth had gone , been sucked away by that vain and stupid old woman who had become enamoured of the young boy who had turned into a smooth-talking man . |
| 11 | Cranston , who had stopped at a local tavern to refill his miraculous wineskin , was full of chatter and speculation . |
| 12 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 13 | It was he himself who had insisted upon a brisk pace and now all he wanted was to dismount and stretch his legs . |
| 14 | Three men and a boy were shot dead and , when tents were set ablaze , two women and eleven children who had hidden in an underground cellar , were suffocated by smoke . |
| 15 | In the second case she judged the problem of a woman who had to choose between a mature knight of complete probity and a young man devoid of worth . |
| 16 | Booth , who had played in a reserve match 24 hours earlier to prove his fitness , scored with two headers to conclude a remarkable night . |
| 17 | Marx and Engels , like all their contemporaries , including anthropologists and archaeologists and Morgan in particular , felt that information gained about contemporary peoples whose life depended on a simple technology was valid for understanding the social institutions of prehistoric populations who had relied on a similar technology . |
| 18 | The most successful writer who had lived in an English colony was Aphra Behn , who was brought up in Surinam before it was transferred to the Dutch in 1668 , and her most important novel of American life , Oronooko , was so completely sympathetic to the Indian hero that it should be considered as an early contribution to the cult of the noble savage rather than a book which could help its English readers understand the wider world . |
| 19 | Just over a third , 35 per cent , of those who had lived in an old people 's home for a year or more had had help from a nurse who visited the home in the year before they died . |
| 20 | At the end of September the picture was complicated by increasing evidence that the billionaire Ross Perot , who had campaigned as an undeclared candidate in the early stages of the race but then withdrawn [ see pp. 38997-98 ] , was set to make a formal declaration of his candidacy . |
| 21 | Texan billionaire Ross Perot , who had campaigned as an undeclared candidate in the early stages of the race but had then withdrawn [ see pp. 38997-98 ] , formally declared his candidacy on Oct. 1 . |
| 22 | A decision by Endara to dismiss 400 public-sector workers , who had participated in a general strike on Dec. 5 for improved wages and conditions and against forced redundancies , sparked off sympathy strikes which concluded in a demonstration dispersed by riot police using tear gas and bird shot on Dec. 13 . |
| 23 | Thirty minutes earlier the radio had crackled with news of a definite sighting of the escapee Burrows , who had broken into a deserted farmhouse between Retford and Gainsborough . |
| 24 | In January this year , three long service presentations were made at Douglas Reyburn to those who had worked for a continuous twenty five years with the company . |
| 25 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 26 | Hundreds of trippers who had paid for a front-row seat in a grandstand overlooking the departing flotilla left in anger when they were told the scaffolding viewpoint was potentially unsafe and would not be used . |
| 27 | But he acquired many followers and The Cloud of Unknowing describes in detail the strained antics of people who had embarked on an unhelpful quest for sensational experiences and weird and wonderful states of mind . |
| 28 | Snizort , on his own account , offered the Twelve Knights who had sat at a round table so that no one of them should be at its head and no one at its foot . |
| 29 | And what part did the cripple play who had sat like a malignant spirit guarding a make-shift bridge over an unimportant stream ? |
| 30 | The boy Maelmuire , who had started with a high colour like his father Duncan 's , had gone very pale . |