Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [noun prp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happened , of the 5381 children who arrived in the first six months of 1939 , only 113 re-emigrated , and most of those went to join their parents who had escaped Germany by other routes . |
| 2 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 3 | He had also become a close friend of Joseph Parker who had visited America in 1873 and 1884 . |
| 4 | The front door of the hotel looked out on John F. Kennedy Square , a wide-open space of seats and gardens named after the American President who had visited Galway in 1963 . |
| 5 | Annie 's mind cast back to the number of his children who had defied Jonadab round this very table . |
| 6 | Joseph M. McDade , a Republican congressman who had represented Pennsylvania for 30 years , was on May 5 charged with racketeering , conspiracy and falsifying his financial disclosure statements . |
| 7 | His father King Henry II was a Frenchman from Anjou , the descendant of a long line of counts who had ruled Anjou for two hundred and fifty years . |
| 8 | Among these tracts were two written by a Scotsman , James Harryson or Henderson , merchant of Edinburgh , who had joined Somerset in 1544 and been an English pensioner since 1546 : An Exhortion to the Scottes ( 1547 ) and The Godly and Golden Booke for Concorde of England and Scotland ( 1548 ) , which remained unprinted because , ironically enough , the Scot was continuing the propaganda battle on behalf of England after the English had withdrawn from it . |
| 9 | The former Neville men wanted a new lord , a need particularly acute for those who had supported Warwick in 1470/1 and who therefore faced possible recriminations . |
| 10 | The former Neville men wanted a new lord , a need particularly acute for those who had supported Warwick in 1470/1 and who therefore faced possible recriminations . |
| 11 | Gould had been given a number of letters of introduction to the veteran explorer from , among others , George Bank , who had accompanied Franklin on one of his Arctic expeditions , and Captain John Washington , secretary of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 12 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 13 | Walahfrid 's " other one " who had enjoyed Alemannia before this , must be Louis the German whose marriage to Judith 's sister in 827 had created a strong axis of solidarity between this son and his father . |
| 14 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 15 | The Germans , who had colonized Tanganyika in 1885 , started a paper in Dar es Salaam four years later : the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung . |
| 16 | From the 1480s onwards , the papacy needed the diplomatic support of the early Tudor monarchs in order to strengthen its political hold over the Papal States and to mount a crusade against the Turks , who had captured Constantinople in 1453 . |
| 17 | It was C … who had informed Peter of this hiding place . |
| 18 | So you 've got warning , ’ she said dismissively , and McLeish let himself , briefly , wonder who the bloke had been who had introduced Catherine to this experience . |
| 19 | A couple of years ago we had a visit from a 91-year old lady who had left Uddingston in 1920 to emigrate to America — the tears flowed down her cheeks as she reminisced about playing here as a child . ’ |
| 20 | On April 9 , 1989 , six political refugees who had left Turkey in 1980 returned and were interrogated by police . |
| 21 | His most important contact was Hayling , who had left Ford in 1983 and now had a job monitoring multinational companies in the GLC 's Industry and Employment Branch . |