Example sentences of "who had [adv] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 2 | Alex Montgomery , Export Director , presented her with a crystal decanter and a cheque on behalf of colleagues who had generously contributed to the leaving present . |
| 3 | Athelstan agreed ; the landlord of the Piebald Horse was a one-armed , reformed sea pirate who had confidentially explained to the friar how he would love to go to church but the smell of incense always made him feel ill . |
| 4 | The crowds who gathered round the palace were respectable citizens cheering a king who had already conceded to the army and to provincial garrisons : they were not an organized pressure group which had forced the crown to become liberal by accepting the constitution of 1812 , appointing a liberal municipality , and a Junta to supervise the establishment of the constitution . |
| 5 | Business chose women who had already got to the top in their careers , or were high-calibre middle managers still on their way up . |
| 6 | French police said they had arrested her stepson , 27-year-old Trevor Keith Hollett , who had allegedly confessed to the murder . |
| 7 | Tobie was watching Loppe , who had suddenly disappeared to the shore , and was now coming back rather more slowly . |
| 8 | Mary was the only one of them , as far as he knew , who had ever walked to the village and walked about in the village when she got there . |
| 9 | Amongst those detained was a Belgian Member of the European Parliament who had earlier disclosed to the newspapers plans for a 3 km-wide ‘ waste island ’ off Zeebrugge . |
| 10 | The main thrust of this passage , it must be said , was to instil a measure of resolve into jurors who , even if intellectually convinced , might shrink from the unwelcome duty of convicting on a capital charge , but the words emphasised above show that the judge ( who had earlier adverted to the burden of proof ) was also telling the jury to concentrate on the evidence . |
| 11 | Bellingham , the most expensive and prestigious barber in London and supplier still of razors to those clients who had never adjusted to the shaving habits of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | Indeed , as Barry Rubin has pointed out in his seminal history Paved with Good Intentions , " Tens of millions of Iranians , particularly those living in the rural villages and even the many peasants who had recently migrated to the cities , accepted these clerical proclamations as guides top proper behaviour towards their King . |
| 13 | Donaldson 's Hospital School for the Deaf was evacuated to Cockburnspath and North Berwick ; the nursery department of the Royal Schools for the Deaf , Manchester , was evacuated to Middlewich in Cheshire ; the Old Kent Road School for the Deaf to St. Alban , Glamorgan , temporarily before relocating at Banstead , Surrey , where they were joined by Anerley School for the Deaf who had originally evacuated to the Royal Cross School , Preston thence to the Royal West of England School at Exeter , hurriedly evacuating the latter following the Baedeker Raids on Exeter in 1942 . |
| 14 | The news that the Collector had been seen doing his own laundry caused a mild sensation at first and was interpreted as the long-awaited collapse , particularly by those members of the garrison who had once belonged to the " bolting " party . |