Example sentences of "who had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ The priapic practitioner , ’ said Lydia , who had just thought of this appellation . |
| 2 | The younger boy had offered to make toast for a social worker , Elizabeth Weepers , who had just returned from sick leave . |
| 3 | Skip was saying this to Bilou who had just come from grand-prix multihull racing in France . |
| 4 | Throughout his career at the library , James constantly blocked efforts to improve security and cataloguing procedures , in particular those proposed by the director , Islamicist Wilfrid Lockwood , who had formerly worked with British Intelligence . |
| 5 | Only occasionally did she encounter fugitives from the slaughter who had wisely dodged into such hidey holes . |
| 6 | ‘ I came across families who had n't eaten for four days . |
| 7 | ‘ Noriega looked like a man who had n't slept for 20 days , ’ said Mr Larry Birns of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs . |
| 8 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 9 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 10 | Howard Wilkinson 's team were victims of an inspired performance by a Manchester City side who had not scored in four previous outings . |
| 11 | But each time they were pegged back by United substitute Ward , who had not scored in 21 previous outings this season . |
| 12 | With time running out , it was crucial that Leeds at least regained the leadership by taking a minimum of one point from a Manchester City team who had not scored in any of their previous four outings . |
| 13 | It was almost as though such an experience gave the initiated a glimpse of a deeper level of reality than the allegedly shallow analysis of contemporary society by those who had not faced at first hand the traumas of modern warfare . |
| 14 | Some barbarians had already received land from the king who issued the law , others had been endowed by his predecessors ; those who had not benefited in this way were to receive two-thirds of a property , one-third of the slaves and half the woodland . |
| 15 | Curators of the ‘ Matisse 1904–17 ’ exhibition think Shchukin has started the case to pressure Russian authorities who had not replied to earlier requests about the paintings . |
| 16 | A reminder letter and questionnaire were sent 6 weeks later to subjects who had not replied by this time . |
| 17 | An elderly man named John Thomas , who was still a member of the Association of Foremen Lightermen but who had not worked in that capacity for some two years and who was now a watchman , was approached to join Harry Gosling 's Amalgamated Society of Watermen , Lightermen and Watchmen of the River Thames . |
| 18 | Thus , the Gundovald affair highlights the dangers posed by magnates caught in three different situations : by those who were unsure of their position at court , those who had already fallen from royal favour , and those whose royal patron had been killed . |
| 19 | This involved a teacher treating a pupil in a manner which suggested that he or she was the same sort of person as an older brother or sister who had either offended in some way or was being offered as a worthy model . |
| 20 | All subjects belonged to a group of volunteers who had previously participated in other studies and who were known to have normal oesophageal motility . |
| 21 | The ‘ bush ’ pilots I knew included ‘ Buck ’ Buchanan , Harry MacConachie and Neville Hollick-Kenyon , the latter being a debonair Englishman who had previously flown for Imperial Airways on the flying boat service from London to New York . |
| 22 | Most who had previously suffered in this way reported a definite improvement and only a very few said they did suffer from constipation at first . |
| 23 | The views of people who had previously looked after those who died sometimes reflected their gratitude and admiration for the people who took on this task . |
| 24 | Looking into her great eyes , their blue so dark that it was almost black , he was uncomfortably aware that having Miss Sally-Anne McAllister in the house was a most disturbing influence on a man who had not only denied himself sexually for some years , but who had rarely mixed with young women at all since he had left the army . |
| 25 | His win/loss playing record for the year up to 23/3/92 was 20/3 , bettered only by one player , Perez Roldan , who had only played in one tournament , in Casablanca . |
| 26 | In the survey , an unemployed person is defined as anyone aged fifteen and over who was not employed during the week before the interview and who had actually looked for full-time or part-time work . |
| 27 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 28 | Elsewhere in the café , one of Sunsail 's flotilla skippers was explaining the difference between a sheet and a halyard to some Germans who had never heard of either . |
| 29 | Thereafter Anselm gave him such aid as he could against the despoilers of his see among the Norman barons who had recently penetrated into southern Wales as far as Pembroke . |
| 30 | On June 14 the Italian government announced that 680 Albanians who had recently arrived aboard makeshift craft would be repatriated . |