Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Another unlucky woman is Debbie Gillard , who got married last Saturday to RUSS HUNT , top crew geezer for the STUFFIES and brother of MILO O'HUNT . |
2 | ‘ We could all be dead in six months , ’ she replied , shaking her head with an air of someone who 'd heard those sort of stories before . |
3 | Her husband David was knocked from his bike and killed just ten days before Christmas last year by a man who 'd drunk three times the legal limit . |
4 | and then for there 's this thing treating people who 'd ruined this guy 's marriage |
5 | You know who 's responsible for this , just as you knew who 'd sent those men , and wrecked your car last night . |
6 | Before I 'd been salvaged by Martinho and Mrs Goreng they 'd had a Frenchman and a Philadelphian about three years previous who 'd written uncomfortable stuff about starving kids , flattened villages , and summary executions . |
7 | The day after we all met you she assured me she 'd say nothing damaging and said she 'd convinced Merlyn who 'd arranged another meeting on the boat . |
8 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
9 | Who 'd found each other ; asleep in a ditch ; full-grown |
10 | Finally I went to James Roose-Evans , who 'd adapted 84 Charing Cross Road for the stage and said , ‘ What are you doing for the rest of your life ? ’ |
11 | So was Mrs Keble , who 'd taken eight pounds odd on the tombola . |
12 | But from people who 'd brought that things to talk about . |
13 | He looked , Caroline thought , like a host taking leave of a guest who 'd resisted all efforts to call it an evening . |
14 | Occasionally someone who 'd died Another type of undertaking was where somebody had died out of the island . |
15 | And I mean recently I came across somebody who 'd got some part holdings in diamonds , and of course the diamond market 's gone into rapid decline because of the er is it Namibian diamonds , and , and the Russians er breaking up the De Beer market . |
16 | It was part of the folklore among their friends , part of the legend which was growing up around-Kevin Ryan , the man who 'd married old Heraghty 's daughter and made a small furniture-manufacturing business into a multi-million-dollar corporation with branches right across the States . |
17 | Only a professor at the Collège de France could imagine that anyone ( let alone someone who had exchanged bovine nicknames with a Masai warrior ) was capable of any such omniscience . |
18 | It did not belong to the prisoners who had escaped that day . |
19 | Briefly Jaq entertained the notion that he was being tested by some Hidden Master of his secret order who had instructed Baal Firenze to send him to Stalinvast to assess whether Jaq possessed supreme courage and insight — enough for him to become a Hidden Master himself . |
20 | At the next seminar Mr Hargreaves — the same tutor who had referred poor June to me — asked me to stay behind . |
21 | Luke , the man who had such a low opinion of her and who had contrived this date presumably to serve his own devious ends , this man who had denied — yes , even earlier tonight — any involvement with Elise … |
22 | Immediately , Vesna Jurkic Girardi , Director of the Archaeological Museum in Pula ( today Croatian Minister of Culture ) got the case moving by bringing charges against an unknown person who had excavated archaeological treasure in the region of Barbariga in Istria and smuggled it out of the country . |
23 | The overall circuit winner remained Jeremy Bates who had achieved 38 ATP points out of a possible 40 , with Chris Wilkinson placed second with 37 . |
24 | ( In the past , Rough Trade acts who had achieved major success like say , Aztec Camera , walked into the more solid foundations of a larger company ) . |
25 | There were over 1,000 ‘ transition ’ students , who had achieved advanced credits under the old course , who would have to be assimilated to the new course . |
26 | The term " senior dealer " was generally understood to apply only to those who had achieved certain levels of business which would usually take at least three months . |
27 | While there was such a difference in the length of time it took to acquire qualifications , many working class youngsters who had achieved good grades in the sixth form tended to view a course in teacher training as marking the limit of their ambitions . |
28 | The Boston and Albany Railroad appointed one of its suburban station-masters who had achieved considerable success with his gardens as the company 's superintendent of station gardens . |
29 | Any man [ sic ] who had opposed political action had simply been insulted at quarterly meetings , and they could not keep on doing that without feeling the effects . |
30 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |