Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime the women 's liberation movement was changing rapidly ; expanding , feminists were becoming active in a whole range of trade union activities , setting up women 's centres , refuges for battered wives , all kinds of research , discussion … the group , although it continued to meet , give or take a member or two , for a further four years , was a friendship , a support group of women who had struggled through to political consciousness together , and whose own political allegiances sparked off in many directions : a gay commune , further teaching , trade union organising , membership of one of the numerous revolutionary left-wing groupings which flourished in the seventies , involved in producing feminist journals . |
| 2 | Dustin 's buddy , the little-known Gene Hackman , who had appeared briefly in three previous films , was cast as her father , and William Daniels and Elizabeth Wilson were to play Mr and Mrs Braddock , the graduate 's parents . |
| 3 | On our first meeting he thought I was a removal man working for Frank and Salome who had gone on to higher things ( mainly higher rates , mortgage repayments , so fourth , so fifth ) . |
| 4 | He was given not merely men but the specialist help of a French general , Marshal Bellefonds , who was to command the expedition on land , and an intelligence and political adviser , François de Bonrepaux , who had served recently as French ambassador in England . |
| 5 | In previous relationships it had always been Lotta who had moved on to better things ; she 'd never been rejected before and she felt angry and humiliated , particularly as she saw her standard of living about to fall . ’ |
| 6 | Tim and Chuck , who had flown ahead by Merpati Airlines , checked-out the aircraft and did some re-taping to protect the fabric — a constant battle . |
| 7 | In expressing his regret at the violence Roman reinforced the Romanian government 's commitment to minority rights , at the same time pleading for an understanding of the views of Transylvanian Romanians , who had suffered greatly between 1940 and 1944 when northern Transylvania had been under Hungarian rule . |
| 8 | Brundle , who had risen briefly to third place during the tyre stops , was again completely out of luck and , like Johnny Herbert , was forced to retire by a collision in which he seemed to be the innocent party . |
| 9 | Among them is New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky , who had sought unsuccessfully in 1991 to pass legislation in New York State to curb ‘ chandelier bidding ’ by auction houses and monitor museum sales . |
| 10 | The fears of those who had stayed away in 1964 were in danger of being realised in 1988 . |
| 11 | On East Brooklyn , the walking people , who had lost more in this war than most , wandered gaily with their families and paused to talk to one another . |
| 12 | Paddy Hopkins , chairperson of the MEG , flew to Finland , home country of Outokumpu , at the invitation of Hans Fers , a Finnish journalist who had written widely on environmental matters and covered the proposed mining of Croagh Patrick . |
| 13 | I came with my thirteen-year-old son to join my husband who had lived here for many , many years . |
| 14 | His wish was not to rake over the past of men who had lived peacefully in this country since they came to Britain as refugees after the war , he said . |
| 15 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 16 | She suggested that I speak to a man who had lived nearby in 1948 , and after some hours he arrived at the house , a middle-aged Israeli with a lined face and very bloodshot eyes . |
| 17 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 18 | The members of this group changed regularly , and were composed of those who had done well on this or that physical test . |
| 19 | The two results were a personal setback for President Bush who had campaigned hard in both states . |
| 20 | The Kent man , who had led overnight on 68 , began at the tenth and , though he was not at his best , he was still two under with five holes to play . |
| 21 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 22 | Indeed , the understrength Lithuanians , who had fought back from two down to get their first Group Three point in Belfast , could have inflicted similar embarrassment on the Republic . |
| 23 | He explained that the people who had got on to that ferry would get off in another world , and would never be seen in this one again . |
| 24 | Such an episode would affect any sensitive child , all the more one who had mixed happily with black people and , as already mentioned , received his first lessons in handicrafts from them . |
| 25 | ‘ The Eddie ’ — shorthand for ‘ The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau ’ — was a collective act of surfing nostalgia , commemorating a North Shore waterman who had died heroically in 1978 . |
| 26 | She had already lost her mother , killed in a riding accident , and her only brother Julien , who had died suddenly in 1870 . |
| 27 | He was tall and willowy , but he was a winger of quality who had deputised ably for Welsh International Bill Davies before the 1st World War and , when fully competitive soccer resumed in 1919 , he was Manager Edmund Goodman 's automatic choice at outside-left . |
| 28 | So it was n't Liu Chang who had come here in that instance . |
| 29 | Having a parasite is a very special , very intimate experience , as Bill Cater learned when he interviewed scientists and wildlife cameramen who had come back from exotic parts to discover that they 'd acquired various new things to share their lives with . |
| 30 | The waiting-room was moderately full and there were several clients who had come in from neighbouring villages . |