Example sentences of "[pron] who had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marjorie Boulton wrote : ‘ The whole Somerville experience was a revelation to someone who had previously had a largely stultifying education and a narrow background ’ ; it gave ‘ freedom of discussion , dignity of life , stress on truth in scholarship , study in depth , no fear of victimisation , undenominational chapel , fine library , interesting friends … and Joshua , the Principal 's tabby cat . |
| 2 | He rested his glass on the paunch now , regarded them owlishly , and gave the impression , as always , of someone who had not gone through the usual process of growing up , but had remained a toddler , magnified to the nth degree . |
| 3 | Indeed , I wondered whether it was possible for someone who had not shared in their experience to pass physically through the white gateposts into the avenue , and attain the domain . |
| 4 | Also , it would be possible to remove a licence from someone who had not looked after animals properly . |
| 5 | He took the scuffed leather document case off the seat beside him and banged the door shut with the violence of someone who had not learned that car doors do not need the same sort of treatment as those of railway carriages . |
| 6 | Zach hesitated at first , but luckily someone who had n't seen him do any tap dancing egged him on . |
| 7 | He did n't exactly look like someone who had n't had any sleep . |
| 8 | It was something a stranger might do — someone who had n't learned to take the view for granted . |
| 9 | To be near someone who had just killed was painful , agonising if the killer had enjoyed the killing . |
| 10 | With such thoughts bringing peace to my troubled , weary being I sank gently into sleep , to dream of the happiness to be found among the galaxy 's wonders by someone who had just become immeasurably rich … |
| 11 | That was quite enough for someone who had just admitted to disliking exchanges of confidence except to his intimates . |
| 12 | She asked for explanations which she received without comment , as if listening to someone who had just incriminated herself . |
| 13 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |
| 14 | So , if I asked you to describe paper to someone who had never seen it before , you might suggest they visualise it as a sort of hard , smooth ‘ cloth ’ . |
| 15 | The worst bit was coming over the runway for the landing when I felt that I was no longer in control , but he made a perfect landing … a great landing for anyone , but incredible for someone who had never flown before . ’ |
| 16 | He cut in on a man who was starting to chat her up — someone who had once given him a bad review . |
| 17 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 18 | I leant back and looked at the seat of my trousers , checking that I had brushed off the mud ; I wanted to make the transition from somebody who had just slept rough to somebody who looked as though he was out for an early walk . |
| 19 | She had the sad and deflated appearance of somebody who had once lived life to the full but now had only the memories of such times to sustain her — like a galleon whose sails sag limply round the masts where once they have billowed majestically . |
| 20 | Families of those receiving the award were also invited , as was everyone who had previously joined the ‘ quarter century club . ’ |
| 21 | Until every single one of them who had not gone in , apart from Joshua and Caleb died . |
| 22 | In spite of Hazel 's efforts beside the snare , there was not one of them who had not turned sick at heart to think that Bigwig was dead and wondered , like Blackberry , what would become of them now . |
| 23 | ROS : ( High ) It was me who had n't got it ! |
| 24 | Next morning while we were loading , Omar brought a young but responsible-looking man over to me who had just arrived from Asba Tafari . |
| 25 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or who who had recently had of a child . |
| 26 | Sightless , she smiled thinly and inhumanly ; she who had not seen a smile with which to compare since her girlhood , nor a mirror either . |
| 27 | GUIL : But you seemed so sure it was you who had n't got it . |
| 28 | Poole , as one who had already thought of emigrating to America , listened sympathetically ; but he saw at once that the scheme could never succeed , remarking to a friend that however perfectible human nature might be , it was ‘ not yet perfect enough ’ for Pantisocracy . |
| 29 | Yeremi knew the catechism of the Imperial Cult by heart ; and that was the rock of his faith — a faith to the effect that far beyond Trazior hive , and far beyond Necromunda and its bilious sun , was one who watched divinely from afar , one who had already rescued the galaxy from terrible strife , and whose incomprehensible mind surveyed and sifted , ever vigilant , the terrible redemptory Godfather of All . |
| 30 | She was the only one who had not lit up . |