Example sentences of "[adj] who had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were glad we 'd probably be seeing him again some time , unlike some who had n't got out while the going was good . |
| 2 | The gaps between were filled with people looking for seats , with others exchanging seats , and with some who had simply observed friends in other parts of the room and were on their way from one table to another for the purpose of making conversation . |
| 3 | Midani , the wealthy Lebanese who had always believed that he had first option should Edwards ever decide to sell , after trying to buy the club himself , insisted more than once : ‘ United must not be caused embarassment , ’ and seemed to be the one participant in what became an increasingly shabby affair who was conscious that great dignity was at stake . |
| 4 | It was not a new idea , especially to the British who had long known the social significance of the right address or style of house . |
| 5 | He was , then , a big , overgrown , shy man of twenty-eight who had never loved anyone before and it made him feel happy and strong and confident . |
| 6 | Donaldson 's Hospital School for the Deaf was evacuated to Cockburnspath and North Berwick ; the nursery department of the Royal Schools for the Deaf , Manchester , was evacuated to Middlewich in Cheshire ; the Old Kent Road School for the Deaf to St. Alban , Glamorgan , temporarily before relocating at Banstead , Surrey , where they were joined by Anerley School for the Deaf who had originally evacuated to the Royal Cross School , Preston thence to the Royal West of England School at Exeter , hurriedly evacuating the latter following the Baedeker Raids on Exeter in 1942 . |
| 7 | Thirty patients had coexisting ulcerative colitis , including three who had previously undergone colectomy and one who discontinued treatment after three months . |
| 8 | But — and here 's the point — second billing was given to a young Austrian lad of 17 who had just won the title of Junior Mr Universe . |
| 9 | These last were soon replaced , on 9 May , by a more specific and highly organized pressure group headed by many who had previously mounted the Pro-Life Anti-abortion Campaign . |
| 10 | The material amenities of life increased , at least in Western society , and prosperity came to many who had never known it before . |
| 11 | Records in England and Wales and Northern Ireland , however , still held the names and addresses of many who had long ceased to practise , some of them no longer alive , and so the records as they stood could not be described as ‘ live ’ . |
| 12 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 13 | During the persecutions those who had most to lose in terms of this world 's goods were the rich Christians , whose property was liable to confiscation unless they ‘ apostatized ’ . |
| 14 | Almost at once , those who had most favoured the change start squealing . |
| 15 | And then Lord Pugh distributed the hands of the dead to those who had most distinguished themselves — to be wrought upon patiently over many years in their cells with scrimshaw designs . |
| 16 | Some transactions were conducted with honest customers but the object of the exercise was to recover stolen property for the owners and obtain evidence against those who had either stolen or dishonestly handled it . |
| 17 | This was to ensure that , as far as possible , the teachers in the sample included only those who had either experienced the entire process of review , reporting and feedback or who had at least been involved in the review component . |
| 18 | Not only in large population centres but also in the countryside and small towns , those who had traditionally exercised power found themselves confronted , whether in newly constituted local councils or in the workplace , with a more open and popular style of politics and a more assertive lower class . |
| 19 | They could laugh at the absurdities of life and people that made no sense to those who had n't lived in Ireland . |
| 20 | 1989 ) we asked those who had just adopted children whether they would be prepared or willing to accept or consider adoption with contact . |
| 21 | I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry . |
| 22 | Another call — sometimes from those who had just sung the Internationale — was : ‘ Freedom — the West ! ’ |
| 23 | The main agreements included a comprehensive general amnesty offered by the Rwandan government to all refugees which , subsequent to a ceasefire , would be extended to all those who had allegedly committed acts against the state . |
| 24 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 25 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 26 | In one recent survey of income support claimants in Bradford , Asian respondents made up nine out of ten of those who had not heard of the Social Fund ( Craig , 1991 ) . |
| 27 | There was a hasty exodus by about twenty of those who had not waited to question the accuracy of the statement . |
| 28 | There was a reaction against ( Conservative ) government unpreparedness for war in the 1930s and against those who had not done more to solve the nation 's problems during the Depression . |
| 29 | It was almost as though such an experience gave the initiated a glimpse of a deeper level of reality than the allegedly shallow analysis of contemporary society by those who had not faced at first hand the traumas of modern warfare . |
| 30 | And the sirens escorted their prisoners from the Department to the Abu Ghraib gaol , and those who had not survived interrogation from the Abu Ghraib gaol to the Medical City Mortuary on the other side of the Al Sarafiyah Bridge . |