Example sentences of "who have [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter White of Midland Bank was less convinced , complaining of the failure of some large firms to adhere to a strict off-limits policy , and described an even worse practice of advancing a candidate who has undertaken to engage the headhunter involved at a later date if he or she lands the job . |
| 2 | Skarsnik is a cunning and observant leader who has grown to understand the Dwarf mind . |
| 3 | Farewell to : Secretary who has left to await the arrival of her baby . |
| 4 | Fourthly , a member who has failed to make the declaration of acceptance of office ( see ante , p. 28 ) automatically ceases to be a member . |
| 5 | In a preface he drafted shortly before his death for a prospective collection of his verse , the man who has come to epitomize the soldier-poet wrote : ‘ Above all I am not concerned with Poetry . |
| 6 | Such interjections are clearly ironic as they are likely to be those of the ‘ trained ’ nouveau roman reader who has come to regard the decentring of the author as paradigmatic of contemporary experimental fiction . |
| 7 | Her mother had thought she would fail and had pinned all her hopes on Dana , who 'd begun to attract the attention of the Press . |
| 8 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 9 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 10 | The schools who 've volunteered to help the orphans will meet the cost of the air fares and fees themselves . |
| 11 | I think half the people who 've come to see the house suspect I 'm a sitting tenant . ’ |
| 12 | That much sooner and in the last hour , couple of hours we 've seen what I would call a Tweedledee and Tweedledum amendments erm because quite frankly there is n't that much difference between them er at the end of the day the impact on the people who 've had to pay the bill is virtually the same . |
| 13 | Only gradually did the commercial preoccupation with the projector and the venue shift to a greater interest in the films themselves and then very much the same kind of people who had struggled to control the machines and theatres began to make and distribute the films . |
| 14 | ( There had earlier been a clash between Dr. Yeats and Lady St. John who had called to inspect the infirmary . |
| 15 | The Ports-Crues match will be played at The Oval on Tuesday , September 21 , much to the annoyance of Glenavon who had hoped to host the tie at their upgraded ground . |
| 16 | At first he had assumed that it must be Siban , baulked from attaining the Dragon Throne , who had hoped to govern the realm through the medium of his son . |
| 17 | Our friends , who had gone to investigate the river , quickly decided that the call of the Kinloch Rannoch Hotel was far stronger than the call of April fishing . |
| 18 | Joanna spoke softly , with one eye on Helen , who had gone to sterilise the instruments . |
| 19 | There was a marvellous audacity about a ruler who had decided to enter the lists and joust against the elements . |
| 20 | I was amused , several years after I delivered the lecture , to be approached by the late Lord Rothschild — who had undertaken to discharge the lecture in that year — with an enquiry about the fee I had received . |
| 21 | Sitting back on her seat , she relaxed as the engine started and the long , low open canal boat passed under the first of the very low bridges which spanned the narrow waterways , and tuned in her ear to the English commentary being given by the boat 's guide , mentally turning off when it was followed in French and German to engage in a desultory conversation with a fellow countryman who had chanced to take the place beside her , a pleasant young man attending his first seminar in Denmark . |
| 22 | Rates of endometriosis were higher in those who had stopped taking the pill for over 12 months than in those who had never taken it . |
| 23 | he had been delayed by Joseph Hyde who had wanted to discuss the night 's events again and again , working out possible and probable courses of action ; from experience , Patrick knew the stout bookseller would do nothing . |
| 24 | Pointon had been caught by a late Giggs tackle just before , and the referee decided that a strong word with the young Welshman , who had given United the lead with a goal worthy of crowning champions , was sufficient . |
| 25 | The party newspaper , Neues Deutschland , in an outspoken editorial yesterday , conceded that Communist Party members were among those who had begun to question the party 's leading role . |
| 26 | Alexei , Jotan , Jehana and Arkhina were among those of the nobility who had elected to eschew the fervour of the crowd , and watched from a wooden platform which had been constructed across the entry to a side street . |
| 27 | The organisers have apologised to all those who had planned to attend the event . |
| 28 | Six members of the Committee of One Hundred , who had planned to enter the air base and immobilize it by sitting in front of its planes , were charged with conspiracy to commit offences under section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 . |
| 29 | Some 35 people were arrested , reportedly part of a 300-strong group whose dress showed their " fundamentalist affiliations " and who had intended to disrupt the march . |
| 30 | She was closely followed by a club instructor who had intended to sound the crash alarm using the button in the control room . |