Example sentences of "who had [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 He turned and yelled at Hugh de Riveire and his men , who had launched on a private war at his back .
5 The Vicar 's wife , who had parked on a yellow line while her gay husband went into the shop to get a treacle tart , got such a shock when Wayne stuck his big , hairy white face in through the window that she jumped out and ran away .
6 As was seen at the recent September Gala the old gentleman is feeling his age and his appearance on the Sunday was only possible after herculean efforts on the part of the staff who had to work on a hot locomotive , in the most trying conditions , to ensure an appearance at the Gala Weekend .
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