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 | To be near someone who had just killed was painful , agonising if the killer had enjoyed the killing . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | That was quite enough for someone who had just admitted to disliking exchanges of confidence except to his intimates . |
| 5 | She asked for explanations which she received without comment , as if listening to someone who had just incriminated herself . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | He cut in on a man who was starting to chat her up — someone who had once given him a bad review . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Families of those receiving the award were also invited , as was everyone who had previously joined the ‘ quarter century club . ’ |
| 14 | Next morning while we were loading , Omar brought a young but responsible-looking man over to me who had just arrived from Asba Tafari . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I thought I was the only one to satisfy you ; you told me that once ; you said I was the only one who had ever made you — ’ |
| 19 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 20 | No one who had ever struggled in the mire as she had , could fail to understand . |
| 21 | Emily always repeated this warning , although she was the only one who had ever cut herself on the bacon-slicer . |
| 22 | However , I did not anticipate it would be quite so moving to one who had never met the man himself . |
| 23 | When I came across Kathleen Woodward 's Jipping Street I read it with the shocked amazement of one who had never seen what she knew written down before . |
| 24 | Dixon , one of the longest serving of Wycliffe 's DCs and one who had never sought or wanted promotion , was duty officer . |
| 25 | Thus , after a while , the one who had retrained his walk with great effort would have no more conscious access to his method of walking than one who had never had such an accident , or subsequent operation . |
| 26 | She was the one who had always gone on about what a paragon my father was . |
| 27 | Why he was the one who had always bought Nebbins a drink when he came home . |
| 28 | Norman , an aggressive nine year old , exploded at a boy walking in front of him who had thoughtlessly trodden on a painting which had fallen onto the floor . |
| 29 | The computer interface was secretly operational , sorting through the Mormons ' old listings of everybody who had ever left a record of his or her life on earth . |
| 30 | It was he who had dramatically proposed an Anglo-French Union in 1940 just before the fall of France . |