Example sentences of "who had [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
2 | Earnest me anyway slightly hankered alter another Italian boy , Joseph , who had invited me out for a walk . |
3 | Cloud was advancing steadily again over the moon 's face , and its shadow rolled across the mitred stones of the abbots , and covered the dark inward movement of the men who had followed him up from the water . |
4 | Frankie Albright was nineteen and just young enough to have missed the war ; he had tried to sign up when he was sixteen , only to be informed upon by his mother , who had followed him down to the recruiting office . |
5 | The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain . |
6 | On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him . |
7 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
8 | It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
9 | In time ‘ yeoman ’ came to mean primarily a farmer who had raised himself out of the ruck of common husbandman , ‘ such as be exempted out of the rascalitie of the popular bee called and written yeomen , as in the degree next vnto gentlemen ’ ; and while careful to avoid making wealth appear the sole criterion , Smith adds that ‘ these tende their owne businesse , come not to meddle in publike matters and iudgements but when they are called and glad when they are deliuered thereof ’ . |
10 | And what would his heart tell him about the gods , who had singled him out for this fate ? |
11 | Sarah caught it first , being nearest , and she soon forgot to mope for her disconsolate Sir George ( who had seen them off with very ill grace ) . |
12 | All except one , who had worked herself up into such a frenzy of excitement , that she became quite terrified and galloped straight into a fence — which fortunately was made of pine rails that collapsed harmlessly under the assault . |
13 | Once again they turned their backs on the God who had brought them out of Egypt , and threw themselves into the arms of another . |
14 | I fear not , for indeed ‘ they hearkened not unto Moses ’ , they murmured against him , and against Aaron , which is to say , they murmured against the Lord , for was it not the Lord Himself , speaking and working in Moses , who had brought them out from the land of Egypt ? ’ |
15 | Benn was eager to get the taste of American boxing before he met Watson and the urge to find new experience brought the break , sad but needed , from the trainer who had brought him through from his amateur days , Brian Lynch . |
16 | Benn was eager to get the taste of American boxing before he met Watson and the urge to find new experience brought the break , sad but needed , from the trainer who had brought him through from his amateur days , Brian Lynch . |
17 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
18 | He was almost tempted to say a prayer of gratitude to the God who had brought him out of Egypt but his contented contemplation was interrupted by the opening of his office door . |
19 | The rejection of the original bill was criticized strongly by Vaclav Klaus , the Czech Prime Minister and leader of the Civic Democratic Party ( ODS ) , who had drawn it up with his Slovak counterpart and leader of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) , Vladimir Meciar [ see pp. 39061-62 ] . |
20 | The old Eythrope house which had stood near to Bridge Lodge had belonged to the Earls of Chesterfield , who had pulled it down in 1810 and made the most of the high price of building materials then prevailing owing to the Napoleonic wars . |
21 | She doubted if Williams were a major player — even on the telephone , he sounded a loser — but at least he might tell her who had put him up to it . |
22 | It was Elspeth who had put him up to it . |
23 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Leonard said the case against Kearney hinged on his identification by Mr Lewin , who had picked him out at an identity parade . |
24 | She was not like the Glasgow woman , who had shown him out into the street . |
25 | He had been beaten by soldiers , he said , who had taken him back to his home and stolen the money he had hidden there . |
26 | Unlike his wife , who had taken herself off to bed like one of the heroines in the penny dramas , he , James Grierson , was going to do something . |
27 | We were surprised that the sultan had even noticed our arrival , but the young courier who had taken us up to the guesthouse laughed . |
28 | Among Lynwood Drake 's victims was his 80-year-old landlord , who had thrown him out of his California home . |
29 | They lost a patient , a young woman in her twenties who had thrown herself out of a car at speed to get away from her husband . |
30 | The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’ |