Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second of the new partners engaged in 1909 was Geoffrey Hobson , a brilliant scholar , who had gone deaf after passing exams both to the Bar and the Foreign Office . |
| 2 | However they were always odd cars to the crews and the maintenance men , who had become accustomed to English Electric equipment , and were not particularly well-liked . |
| 3 | They crowded round the Bookman , apart from Mr Rumback who had fallen asleep in all the excitement , and asked him hundreds of questions all at once . |
| 4 | Husband had the good looks of a schoolboy football star who had reached forty with one mighty bound : a strong nose , high forehead , brown hair set in tousled wiry waves . |
| 5 | The percentage who had seen Labour in second place rose from a mere 13 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to 78 per cent in the first fortnight and 95 per cent in the second . |
| 6 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 7 | Edward , who had seen both of these creatures on the television screen , pictured the tiny animals , with their sad wise old men 's faces framed by silky manes , their long , long tails , their agility . |
| 8 | Mr Andrews cited the example of an A&E nurse who had done suturing for many years . |
| 9 | The others pardoned were two intelligence officials — Duane R. Clarridge , the former head of the CIA 's European Division , who was awaiting trial on charges of having misled Congress [ see also p. 38428 ] , and Alan D. Fiers , a CIA official who had pleaded guilty in 1991 to withholding information from Congress , but who later co-operated with the authorities and served as the prosecution 's chief witness at George 's trial [ see p. 39043 ] . |
| 10 | A former employee of the Soviet KGB ( state security committee ) declared on Swedish television on March 10 that the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg , who had enabled thousands of Hungarian Jews to escape deportation to concentration camps during the Second World War , and who disappeared after his arrest by the Soviet military in Budapest in 1945 , had died in 1947 during a prison interrogation [ see also p. 37162 ] . |
| 11 | The government 's surprise second witness was Abdu Maged Jiacha , described as a Libyan intelligence officer who had worked undercover as assistant station manager for LAA at Luqa . |
| 12 | At the finish he had plenty to spare over It 's Tough with Moving Statue , who had looked dangerous at one stage , in third place . |
| 13 | On 5 December he received 44.6 per cent of the vote and was forced into a runoff election against Mitterrand , who had come second with 31.7 per cent . |
| 14 | Stirling , who had come direct from Eighth Army Headquarters , was on the horns of a dilemma . |
| 15 | This Nationalist co-operation and its outcome led to the loss of many SNP activists , who had known all along that Labour could not be trusted . |