Example sentences of "who [vb past] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 2 | But I had to get together in one room , the admirals , the intelligence people , the civil servants , all the people who 'd played a critical role in advising her . |
| 3 | He also told me about another ex-employee who 'd had a fatal motor accident … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Ow long are you weeth us , Reeky ? ’ asked Claudia , who 'd had a secret crush on him in the old days and was appalled to see how grey and tense he looked . |
| 5 | Meredith thought it was the smile of the cat who 'd found a whole vat of cream . |
| 6 | ‘ A ’ Flight encountered four Bf110s over the island on 28th. , but despite a general mix-up , heavy cloud allowed any pilot who felt threatened a quick avenue of retreat , and no claims resulted . |
| 7 | On Nov. 3 Sendero guerrillas murdered 37 people who had formed a civil defence group in the Andean village of Santo Tomás de Pata . |
| 8 | However , those who had expressed a general interest in politics during the parliamentary mid-term were more likely to see bias on the television and in their papers early in the campaign . |
| 9 | Skipping an Ipswich rink , Roy Cutts , who had achieved a rare distinction of qualifying for all four championships — singles , pairs , triples and fours — went out in the first round of the fours to Egham of Surrey . |
| 10 | Some years ago I worked with a golfer who had achieved a considerable amount of success , winning several amateur trophies . |
| 11 | Robert Hardy — who had arranged a nifty transfer to London — confirms this . |
| 12 | The 138 patients who had recognised a potential condom failure represented only 45% of the 309 who had conceived while using this method . |
| 13 | The Czech , who had replaced a concussed Tony Roberts after 17 minutes , hesitated over a Neal Ardley cross and was left stranded as Earle looped a header over him and into an empty net . |
| 14 | Mr. Leonard Coote , the out-going Vice-President was elected President for a two-year term in succession to Mr. Andy Heffernan who had completed a two-year term . |
| 15 | The cold cost him an arm and a leg , badly amputated by Würstchen , who had employed a rough-hewn rock to sever nerve , sinew and bone . |
| 16 | I once met an aged man who had waged a single-handed crusade to get the Fellowship to change its official line that Dr Manette 's house ( A Tale of Two Cities ) is based on the old Carlisle House , Soho Square , in favour of No 1 Greek St. He said he felt prouder than if he had won the Nobel prize on the day they admitted they were in error . |
| 17 | His mother died in 1847 and in 1851 his father married Nancy Inman , who had run a successful school near Birkenhead . |
| 18 | The Minister of Labour , Ernest Bevin , received a message which he had decoded for him in a Leeds hotel by Albert Heal , a trade union leader who had run a pre-war escape route for German socialists that still had watertight communications . |
| 19 | In that case it was held that a journalist lacked standing for an order ( of mandamus ) that the chair of the justices should reveal the names of the magistrates who had heard a particular case , but that he did have standing for a declaration that a policy of not disclosing the names of justices who heard certain types of cases was contrary to the public interest and unlawful . |
| 20 | Powerful public examples of this were seen in photographs taken after the death of the American president J.F. Kennedy who had become a great folk hero to the American people . |
| 21 | Many of the excursions I made with Wendy Anderson who had become a close friend . |
| 22 | Dawson , who had become a Roman Catholic shortly after going down from Oxford , was an influential member of the group of writers which formed around the new Catholic publishing house of Sheed & Ward from the 1930s . |
| 23 | Who had displayed a friendly interest in her . |
| 24 | Venturi was a university teacher , son of a famous father , Adolpho Venturi , who had made a substantial contribution to the publication of documents of Italian art . |
| 25 | I had a sudden flash of memory of one of the most remarkable women I had ever met — Sister Kenny , a woman who had made a great impact on me because of Clare . |
| 26 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 27 | The elderly lay proprietor , Miss Cordelia Claybury , had inherited the madhouse from her father who had made a good living out of the rich and insane . |
| 28 | Even though there were many writers before Leapor who had made a similar affirmation , not least Katherine Phillips and Mary Astell , it must be recognized that to make such claims was to dispute a widely held belief , based on Aristotelian physiology , that women were by nature soft and therefore inconstant The best known statement of this view of women is Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 29 | In 1715 , Thomas Doggett , an Irishman who had made a successful career in London as an actor , theatre manager and author , instituted a race between six young watermen , donating the prize of an ornate jacket , cash in pocket and silver badge to the winner . |
| 30 | The house had been built by a mill owner who had made a comfortable fortune at the woollen mill which straddled the river Pleshey a mile or two west of Lulling . |