Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pc James Crane , one of six officers who had searched for the alleged raiders , said both men had been trying to hide in bushes and ferns . |
| 2 | Interestingly , there are signs that those who had escaped from the royal mouvance were not entirely comfortable in their independence . |
| 3 | Celia , who had trained as a physical education instructor , now ran the Loxford parish Guides , a swimming group for the disabled , and was Peter 's Deanery Secretary . |
| 4 | But that Wednesday morning , the few customers who had called for an early drink were much more interested in other underwater creatures : four of them , with sleek black skins and disproportionately large webbed feet , circling up and down , and round and round , and sweeping the depths diligently below the weir , streams of bubbles intermittently rising to the surface from the cylinders strapped to their backs . |
| 5 | Prudhoe , who had called for the original cross , could only tip the ball on to the bar and McCarthy headed the rebound home . |
| 6 | Prudhoe , who had called for the original cross , could only tip the ball on to the bar and McCarthy headed the rebound home . |
| 7 | Relations with France had deteriorated in recent weeks [ see p. 37874 ] , and on Dec. 21 the government denounced as " paternalistic " the comments of Thierry de Beaucé , the French Secretary of State for International Cultural Relations , who had called on the Moroccan government to respect human rights , especially in the context of the trials of those arrested over the Dec. 14-15 demonstrations . |
| 8 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 9 | Dr Owen 's decision to support tactical voting for some Liberal Democrat candidates will surprise senior Conservatives , who had hoped for a simple message of support for Mr Major . |
| 10 | On Dec. 5 , 1989 , Israeli troops killed five Palestinian gunmen who had crossed into the western Negev desert from the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt . |
| 11 | In victory , Major sidled up to the MPs who voted for his rivals , including one-nation characters such as Chris Patten , Kenneth Clarke and William Waldegrave , who had rallied to the reassuring establishment figure of the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 12 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 13 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |
| 14 | The precariousness of personal ties was demonstrated by the gradual reduction in the numbers of those in positions of influence in both countries who had gone through the great co-operative experience of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War . |
| 15 | It came to focus on a headhunting approach to find this talent , not necessarily people who had gone to the right schools and universities . |
| 16 | Mircea Druc , who had stood in the presidential elections as an independent candidate campaigning for the unification of Romania , Bessarabia ( now Moldova and parts of Ukraine ) and Bukovina ( also part of Ukraine ) , was elected leader of the newly formed National Reunification Party on Nov. 4 . |
| 17 | In April , however , our colleagues on the lovely island of Arran managed to upstage their rivals who had featured in the local newspaper a few weeks previously . |
| 18 | Most bears were small and black , sometimes no higher than a man , but this great , shaggy-furred animal reminded him of stories he had heard from knights who had served with the Teutonic Orders in the wild black forests of the north . |
| 19 | Anthony Lake , 53 , a Massachusetts professor , was a former foreign service officer and State Department policy planning chief , who had served as a key foreign affairs adviser to Clinton during the presidential election campaign . |
| 20 | In England a man who had served as a royal official might end as an earl , as did Henry I 's trusted adviser Aubrey de Vere . |
| 21 | The councillors were drawn heavily from people who had served on the previous local authorities : and most of the public remained ignorant and apathetic towards local government ( Rhodes 1972:420 — 1 ) . |
| 22 | Given the ineffectiveness of the police and indecisive action by the Army , Iliescu called for the establishment of a specially-trained national guard , at the same time banning the Committee for the Democratization of the Army , a group of young , reform-minded officers who wanted their leaders who had served under the previous Ceausescu regime ousted [ see p. 37252 ] . |
| 23 | The latest addition to our English-speaking group was a Rhodesian who had served in the Rhodesian Light Infantry in the war of Independence and who told endless stories of shooting black terrorists , or ‘ floppies ’ , in cross border raids into Zambia . |
| 24 | A Matagalpa prison official claimed that the US government arranged for officials who had served in the Korean and Vietnam wars to go to Nicaragua to teach the National Guard methods of torture . |
| 25 | Last year the rebuilt Memorial to the Fallen was unveiled in the centre of the town and on it , as well as the names who had served in the military were those of the 11 whose lives were lost . |
| 26 | For example , in 1976 , three DUP councillors in Ballymena boycotted the Remembrance Day service ( an event they would normally have been very keen to support ) because a Roman Catholic priest who had served in the Royal Naval Reserve was reading a lesson . |
| 27 | By 1916 Kisling , who had served in the French Foreign Legion , was discharged wounded and working at his studio , No. 3 Rue Joseph Bara , and Modigliani often worked there with him . |
| 28 | Caroline who had moved to a new area was asked by a neighbour to join a committee planning the local summer carnival . |
| 29 | Jack Jones found himself assailed by Paul Johnson , the ex-editor of the New Statesman who had moved to the far right , as ‘ The Emperor Jones ’ , almost a fourth estate of the realm in himself and the symbol of overweening trade-union power . |
| 30 | A different tactical response by the US asbestos industry was to export its hazardous production to other non-regulated peripheral countries such as Mexico and the South American countries , following earlier examples of asbestos companies who had moved to the southern US states to avoid higher insurance costs in the northern states . |