Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The fears of those who had stayed away in 1964 were in danger of being realised in 1988 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I came with my thirteen-year-old son to join my husband who had lived here for many , many years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The members of this group changed regularly , and were composed of those who had done well on this or that physical test . |
| 16 | The two results were a personal setback for President Bush who had campaigned hard in both states . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | She had already lost her mother , killed in a riding accident , and her only brother Julien , who had died suddenly in 1870 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So it was n't Liu Chang who had come here in that instance . |
| 23 | The importance of the communication was symbolised by Lord Curzon , who had come across to 10 , Downing Street to hear the news , acting as messenger boy . |
| 24 | Brazauskas succeeded Vytautas Astrauskas , who had resigned unexpectedly after two years in office [ for his appointment see p. 35657 ] . |
| 25 | The crowds who had jostled close to each other all day , shoulder to ruthless shoulder , thigh to strange thigh , had left their unexpungeable smell . |
| 26 | Between 1986 and 1992 , 54 children with surgically unresectable or disseminated neuroblastoma , who had responded poorly to conventional chemotherapy , were treated with I-MIBG at 2.5–3.7 GBq ( median 3.2 ) . |
| 27 | During the 1640s he commanded ships on trading voyages to Massachusetts , in association with his brother , who had returned home in 1643 . |