Example sentences of "who had [adv] [vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1826 she was joined by her sisters-in-law , Sarah and Ann , who had just lost their mother ; the poor relief ‘ Extras ’ list granted them 1s. or 18d. a week for at least the next three years . |
| 2 | The guest of honour was Lord Denning , who had just completed his report into the Profumo scandal of that year . |
| 3 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |
| 4 | Ticket Inspector Clark , who had just finished his shift , trotted up to the distressed driver , |
| 5 | The rejoicing was not shared by the weary infantrymen who had just fought their way on to it . |
| 6 | With the defeat at Brignais avenged , Charles V , who had just succeeded his father as king , could go to his coronation a satisfied man . |
| 7 | ‘ Precisely , ’ he said , giving her the kind of look a great thespian might give an impish soubrette who had just delivered his punchline . |
| 8 | Jake , by contrast , quite independently of his father , who had also made his fortune in the building industry , had set up as a building contractor on his own . |
| 9 | In 1991 the City and Guilds top award in carpentry also went to a woman , who had also started her career at Bristol Women 's Workshop . |
| 10 | It came a week after she buried her mother , who had also shared their home . |
| 11 | One month after Charles 's funeral , wasting little time , his eldest daughter Elizabeth , who had probably tended her father through his final illness and was by then the official occupier of the dwelling house next to his shop , upped and married by licence . |
| 12 | I thought it only civil to break the ice with this boy of hitherto laggardly intelligence who had somehow scrambled his way to a temporary plateau of scholastic proximity . |
| 13 | I realized this must be the rich Miss Oliver who had generously furnished my cottage . |
| 14 | In the 1320s the problems of disorder were compounded by the fact that both the leading houses of the region — Foix and Armagnac — were governed by youths who had barely achieved their majority . |
| 15 | I tried to picture what she must have been like , the young woman who had diligently allowed her life to fade away working at this solitary chore . |
| 16 | There were German Catholics in Pomerania , Protestant Poles in Mazuria ; there were large numbers of ethnic Poles and Kaszubians in both the southern districts of East Prussia and in Pomerania who spoke German rather than Polish and who had even Germanised their family names . |
| 17 | Bush , who had repeatedly stated his opposition to abortion under all but the most extreme circumstances , was known to oppose the bill , and was thought likely to veto it in the event of its enactment . |
| 18 | The two men , who had temporarily forgotten her presence in the heat of argument , turned their heads and looked at her . |
| 19 | Claudia , with her made-up face and her bad language in the hunting field , a powerful image which overwhelmed the memory of the frail Irish girl who had n't survived his birth . |
| 20 | Her mother ran upstairs , followed closely by a policewoman who had n't left her side for a moment since they 'd arrived . |
| 21 | Since then , his father had told both Thorkel and Otkel to take his son Paul with them whenever there was prospect of fighting , but there had never been anything worth speaking of , except an Icelandic trader who had n't paid his toll and had to be stopped in the Firth , or , once , a small flotilla of ships from Ireland that had fled when they saw them . |
| 22 | In front of him was Chernayev who had not practised his trade of thieving for seventeen years . |
| 23 | William Wallace of Elderslie , son of a Renfrewshire landowner , was one of the lesser gentry who had not put his name to the document of submissions , known as the Ragman 's Roll because of the ribbons dangling from its seals . |
| 24 | Dietary iron intake was measured by a prospective seven day diary record of weighed and estimated food intake in patients who had not changed their diet before the first attendence or were not admitted for investigations to be performed . |
| 25 | He was recognised by a youth who identified Dennis , 31 , as the man who had indecently assaulted his sister , it was alleged . |
| 26 | But as we talked the matter over , I thought I heard , in the background , a droning unbodied voice explain that the robbers were young , socially deprived victims of the Thatcherite era of greed and exploitation , not to be blamed for acquiring , by unorthodox means , some of the luxury goods they had heard of from capitalist advertisers who had wickedly aroused their consumerist aspirations . |
| 27 | One such person was John Curran , a producer at ITN , who had already demonstrated his kindness by giving me an answering machine so that I could screen any calls from the press . |
| 28 | There has also been deliberate wooing of parents who had already made their selection , although it is surely obvious that changes in mid-stream can only be damaging , in terms of stability , education and coach/player relationship . |
| 29 | In the 1930s , both Nicolae Ceauşescu and Elena Petrescu seem to have been introduced to the Communist Party by relatives who had already made their way to Bucharest from the country . |
| 30 | He was among the hundreds of thousands of people who had already posted their application forms . |