Example sentences of "who had [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piers Morrison was a dangerous stranger , one who made no effort to treat her with respect , far less subservience , and who had kissed her on the spur of the moment , then instantly regretted it because he basically did n't like her . |
| 2 | For a few brief moments she 'd actually managed to persuade herself that there was some kind of special rapport between herself and the man who had kissed her in the semi-darkness with such tender passion . |
| 3 | If only it had been he instead of Giles who had kissed her in the moonlight . |
| 4 | By and large , the more important a command ( importance being judged by the size of territorial authority , or , more appropriately in time of peace , by the numbers of men involved ) the more likely it was to be given to a man who had achieved it as a result of attendance at court . |
| 5 | His friend Dr Burney , not a Cambridge man , expressed similar concern at Smart 's lack of discretion : ‘ While he was the pride of Cambridge and the chief poetical ornament of that University , he ruined himself by returning the tavern treats of strangers who had invited him as a wit and an extraordinary personage , in order to boast of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 6 | He had also telephoned an old friend , who had invited him to a birthday party the following weekend , which he was looking forward to , although with some apprehension . |
| 7 | He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life . |
| 8 | He was discharged in August 1943 and dedicated his first volume of short stories ( The Stuff to Give the Troops , 1944 ) to Hart-Davis , by then adjutant of the 6th battalion Coldstream Guards , who had saved him from a court martial . |
| 9 | The audience who had loved him as a stage juvenile were themselves growing old , and could not fail to notice the signs of ageing in their idol . |
| 10 | In that sensible frame of mind she had hurried downstairs to join her daughter — who had beaten her to the breakfast table again ! — and her host in the sunny conservatory . |
| 11 | There was something in her voice that reminded Tug that she was the one who had beaten him round the face . |
| 12 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 13 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 14 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 15 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 16 | But he swore at a spectator who had provoked him during a game against Essex at Ilford and again on Sunday when he was racially abused on returning to the pavilion after scoring a half century which helped Middlesex clinch the Sunday League crown . |
| 17 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 18 | However , after a couple of dances had elapsed , Clara thought she spotted the civilized young man who had assisted her on the Channel crossing ; once she had spotted him she turned rigidly away , so deep was her horror of imitating Janice 's conduct , but she lost nothing by it , for within a couple of minutes he presented himself , courteously , at her elbow . |
| 19 | Following the work that I had done at the MU on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid in connection with my MSc project , 2 members of the staff had gained experience of expert systems : the Chief Technician and a civilian who had assisted me during the project . |
| 20 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 21 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 22 | If he had added the name of Viola Angotti to the list of those who had hit him in the stomach Ezzie 's face would have screwed up with laughter . |
| 23 | This was won by Ruby Lansley who had turned hers into a caterpillar . |
| 24 | Suddenly before the altar a ‘ light shining from heaven , in the manner of a sunbeam ’ appeared , which was seen as a sign of divine approval of Stanford 's opposition to Edward II and the Pope , who had deposed him from the bishopric of Durham . |
| 25 | He was an old man like the guard who had stopped us in the road the night before . |
| 26 | It was in 1984 , when Kylie was still only 16 , that her next big break came and it was again Alan Hardy , the man who had cast her in The Sullivans three years before , who was involved . |
| 27 | It was Iris , throwing doubts on Rick 's guilt , who had cast her in the role of the devil 's advocate . |
| 28 | Hawk nodded to his father , the man who had tutored him as a Dreamwalker , and was not acknowledged . |
| 29 | The 67-year-old was attacked in Ludlow , Shropshire , by a man who had followed her through the town centre . |
| 30 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |