Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeremy Taylor , who had at one time been chaplain to Archbishop Laud , was no Calvinist . |
| 2 | Even nobles who had at one time covertly recommended such a union were alarmed by the unseemly haste , and realized that in any case the tide of national opinion was against the match . |
| 3 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |
| 4 | This leads to a further conclusion that these wares were brought to the site by the Catuvellauni , who had at that time embarked on westward expansion . |
| 5 | Early on , after Waite 's capture , when he was still separated by a wall from the others , Anderson , who had at that point had spent 2,000 days in captivity , writes of Waite , ‘ I knew he was brave , risking his life for us . |
| 6 | On the other hand , there was a slightly smaller group of people , ending up as early retired , who had at first decided to remain economically active and , for the most part , to try to find jobs . |
| 7 | So Brick , who had at first dismay , |
| 8 | Among these last was Archbishop Reynolds who had at first excommunicated the invaders by pressing into service a ten-year-old denunciation against the Scots ! |
| 9 | Archbishop Adolf of Cologne , who had at first supported Otto , was threatened with excommunication . |
| 10 | People who had at first seemed so friendly and decent and open and neighbourly , but who , after two or three encounters , had turned into ravingly obsessive lunatics . |
| 11 | But when he caught up with Chuck , who had at last relented and allowed his breathless coolie to slow to a trot , he found the older boy grinning and lolling casually in his seat , obviously suffering no such pangs of conscience . |
| 12 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
| 13 | The membership also included Derek Senior , who had for many years been advocating a fundamental reorganisation of local government . |
| 14 | These breed clubs have regenerated interest in the people who had for some reason left the breed and have now been asked to return to spread their knowledge to the younger members . |
| 15 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |
| 16 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 17 | At Pyinmana I called on Brayton Case , the gallant Baptist agricultural missionary who had for twenty years organised a training farm . |
| 18 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 19 | A certain Mr Tomlinson was in trouble ‘ having several times played in the upper part of the links with some gentleman who was not a member of the Club and who had on each occasion omitted to pay his green fee ’ ( at this time 2s. 6d . ) . |
| 20 | It 's like , girls who had on that side , and girls who had n't on that side , — can I join , kind of thing . |
| 21 | In her girls ' school , it was a bit like joining a club — " girls who had on this side , and girls who had n't on that side " . |
| 22 | Bert , who had after all spent a fair bit of time with Jasper , was surprised that a brother had never been mentioned . |
| 23 | We can blame the schools for not providing the right conditions , we can blame the government and local education authorities for not giving sufficient attention to in-service training , but I think the buck must rest with people like me who had by that date been employed in teacher-training for just over ten years . |
| 24 | They might also have mentioned the hatters who seem to have been organised by 1700 and who had by 1777 a " congress " which made by-laws , extracted fines and sought to limit the number of apprentices masters could take . |
| 25 | This lot have been brought into the barn for a rest , ’ indicating with his hand the others who had by this time fallen asleep , oblivious to the noise of the guns and the explosions very close to the barn . |
| 26 | He writes : Molla Hacihasanzade , who became kazasker for twenty-five years continuously through purposing the turning away and hindering of those capable of achieving renown by directing them to the path of kaza [ kadilik ] and of those who were spoken of as outstanding in excellence among their contemporaries by impeding their passage through the ranks ; and who had by this stratagem , over so long a period , found safety from the crush of those ulema who , by right of learning and excellence , might have passed through the ranks and become rivals to him … |
| 27 | This was made explicit by Louis Agassiz , a Swiss who had in 1840 recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe and thus given us the idea of ice ages . |
| 28 | He was loyal to the old Left , was Alan , unlike their turncoat father who had in recent years been wooed by , and had , it seemed , espoused , the radical Right . |
| 29 | Until February of 1982 , the Beit Azem museum in the Syrian city of Hama contained dozens of torn and faded grey photographs of young Sunni militiamen who had fought the French , who had in some cases been hanged for their acts of defiance . |
| 30 | Jarvis crossed the vestibule , a large high-ceilinged chamber with mock-medieval hammer beams , on the walls of which were incised on yellow pine panels the names of pupils who had in some small way distinguished themselves . |