Example sentences of "[noun sg] who had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he would be pressing for the expulsion of several members of the local association who had privately aired derogatory views about a black candidate while publicly supporting him . |
| 2 | There is no champion tennis player who has never served a double fault ; no professional musician who had never played a wrong note ; and no doctor or nurse who has not made an error of diagnosis . |
| 3 | Howard Wilkinson 's team were victims of an inspired performance by a Manchester City side who had not scored in four previous outings . |
| 4 | It was then Aberdeen 's turn to stare elimination in the face , and expulsion of the most embarrassing sort for a side who had earlier enjoyed a supposedly comfortable lead over the team from the lower league . |
| 5 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 6 | In 1847 Richard Sheepshanks wrote of John Couch Adams , a Cambridge mathematician who had just predicted the new planet Neptune : ‘ I think there is a hope that Mr Adams will continue his astronomical career . |
| 7 | The two subjects in the eight-month restriction study who had already limited themselves to 6 hours did not benefit from the regime , and reverted to their own established norms . |
| 8 | On July 23 the Court voted to summon additional witnesses to the hearing , including former Soviet President and CPSU first secretary Mikhail Gorbachev ( the only summoned witness who had not attended ) , his close aide Aleksandr Yakovlev , and other top CPSU officials . |
| 9 | She turned to the stranger who had just finished talking to a mechanic who was now giving her car the once-over . |
| 10 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not presume to counsel my sovereign on the choice of her advisers , ’ he once grandly told a journalist who had rashly asked him how he was going to vote in a parliamentary election . |
| 12 | Mandy was peering through the binoculars with the intensity of an army scout who had just discovered the enemy , and with a defeated sigh Charity let her own gaze drift in the same direction . |
| 13 | He was a lawyer who had not seen the Shah for the last twenty years . |
| 14 | Emile Verhaeren , the Belgian poet who had vividly chronicled the impact of the railways on the countryside , was killed in an accident at Rouen Station in 1916 . |
| 15 | She thought of the agency folding , of having to give up her flat , of Sebastian , who had devoted his life to his business , paying with divorce as the price of his involvement , of Jenny in Media Research who had just got married and was struggling with a mortgage , or Ben , one of the account executives , whose wife was in hospital awaiting a kidney transplant . |
| 16 | Bishop Bell , who commissioned the play , was an influential British churchman who had consistently supported the German Confessing Church in its opposition to National Socialism . |
| 17 | Biopsy specimens were also obtained from five patients ( mean age 38 years , range 35–40 years ) with familial adenomatous polyposis who had previously undergone total abdominal colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis and were attending regularly for follow up . |
| 18 | They were the merchants , traders and businessmen of the north-east Mediterranean coast who had most to lose if the Shias could establish themselves in the economic life of the Levant . |
| 19 | I ventured to express exactly the opposite opinion and was stared at as if I were a hawker of ladies ’ underwear who had accidentally strayed into a monastery . ’ |
| 20 | He was , incidentally , the only applicant who had n't named the drink St Clements , from the nursery rhyme . |
| 21 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 22 | The magistrate said that though he acknowledged that Dad was a peaceful , law-abiding citizen who had never had any trouble with the police and who held strong religious beliefs , there were nevertheless times ‘ when people do get angry and tell lies . ’ |
| 23 | Conversely , many of those in the amalgamated force who had previously worn helmets in their earlier life and had been moved into flat caps in 1969 welcomed the return to ‘ natural ’ apparel and their own version of a correct bodily disposition which had been prescribed in a 1958 edition of the Northumberland County Police Standing Orders . |
| 24 | One day , soon after the girl 's departure , Tom had complained of pains in his chest after digging the new potato patch , a job which had formerly been undertaken by a youthful employee who had also disappeared into the army . |
| 25 | The rule was struck down as being an unreasonable restraint of trade when the Society attempted to prevent the defendants from employing an employee who had recently left another member of the association . |
| 26 | Mr Pozsgay , the soft-spoken intellectual who had loyally served the party all his life , rebelled . |
| 27 | Only eight of us had any sort of previous military experience : Marius , myself , Chris , a German from Oberammergau who had killed a tourist in the celebrations surrounding the Passion Play , a Frenchman , Mike the Rhodesian , and a Portuguese and a Rumanian who had both served with their countries ' airborne regiments . |
| 28 | Griffith was seduced by his own myth of himself and by the preoccupations of the Progressive era into believing that he was a serious thinker , whereas in truth he was an old-fashioned story-teller who had spontaneously discovered how the technology of film could be used to give stories a tremendous power . |
| 29 | Paul Ingouf informed us that he had telephoned to a retired fireman who had actually attended the crash and who was now on his way to the office to meet us . |
| 30 | Lamont turned out to be an egotistical womaniser who had selfishly kept his marriage of twenty years intact ; Porter , a woman of integrity , now on her fourth marriage and deeply fond of both her disturbed children . |