Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | who 'd scored the bleached heights with a comb of cells ? |
| 2 | The person who 'd done the old one |
| 3 | They were descendants of Iapyx , a son of the great Daedalus 's , who 'd had the good sense not to fly . |
| 4 | They wore expensive suits and had the general air of men who 'd found the secret key to the money pump and were cranking its handle for all they were worth . |
| 5 | United 's finest hour evidently enjoyed by the man who 'd rescued the ailing club 4 years earlier . |
| 6 | The white stone palais of the governor of Cochin-China was built in the grandiloquent , neoclassical style favoured by those fervently patriotic Frenchmen who had erected the great public buildings of Paris in the late nineteenth century . |
| 7 | In his acceptance speech , Mr. Mates thanked all the East Hampshire District Council staff who had taken part in the count and to all those who had manned the 51 polling stations . |
| 8 | For while the royal bureaucrats gained the upper hand in fact , the other classes in the community who had upheld the medieval constitutionalism the barons and the free towns , and above all the church — developed secularized versions of natural law . |
| 9 | He used to be the crier , but had recently taken over from Fred Harrison who had proclaimed the fair annually for the last thirty years . |
| 10 | And now , slumped in the rich-smelling old leather of Stanley 's back seat , he felt like a rabbit who had escaped the human cordon . |
| 11 | In June 1963 , Pope John XXIII , the Pope who had called the second Vatican Council , died . |
| 12 | Still in the realm of half-backs , the original conclusion from the post-match inquest into who had called the back-row move which led indirectly to that heartbreaking injury to Craig Chalmers — that it had come from half-back — was subsequently rescinded . |
| 13 | He was a big , bald man who had toed the papist line for the past few years under Mary , and was now willing to return to Anglicanism should that be the wish of his Bishop . |
| 14 | The theology of Paracelsus celebrated the mercy of a God who had granted the human mind sufficient illumination to cultivate nature and to extract those gifts necessary for subsistence . |
| 15 | In Parliament on May 2 de Klerk ( who had announced the proposed all-party conference on April 18 — see p. 38131 ) said that he intended to go ahead with it with or without the ANC , which had set a deadline of May 9 for its demands to be met . |
| 16 | In June he replaced an enlightened Minister of Education with an admiral who had conducted the Russian mission to Japan during the Crimean War and was identified in the public mind with oriental despotism . |
| 17 | They had been caught up with at Dornock , east of Annan , on the shore of the Solway , by a fast-riding English host under Sir Anthony de Lucy of Cockermouth , who had crossed the shallow firth at lowest tide by the temporarily dried-out Knockeross sands , from Bowness in Cumberland . |
| 18 | In the year 430 the Vandals , who had crossed the Mediterranean not long before , were battering at the walls of St Augustine 's home town as he lay there dying . |
| 19 | Habré stated that five seats in the National Assembly would be allocated to women who had achieved the highest number of votes as runners-up , to join the two women who had succeeded in being elected . |
| 20 | The very year when Mary offered her kingdom to France saw the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , that colossal and most admired figure of the sixteenth century , who had achieved the impossible by holding together an inheritance which sprawled across Europe . |
| 21 | Dorothy had dealt with both of them , aided by Isobel 's giddy young sister-in-law , who had explained the social nuances of it all by saying : ‘ That pair of grasping alley cats would tear the eyes out of anyone who managed to make the social pages of the Tollemarche Advent on a day when they should have been featured . |
| 22 | It seems reasonable to ask , though , why a side who had gone the previous 42 games undefeated , were allowed to spend such a relatively undemanding afternoon in the company of a team who ought to have harboured more serious intent than was ever evident . |
| 23 | General Erich von Falkenhayn , who had replaced the discredited Moltke as Chief of Staffon 14 September 1914 , determined as a first measure to reduce the fortress of Antwerp , where King Albert , with the tenacious Belgian Field Army of six divisions , had taken refuge in August . |
| 24 | Navarro , who had replaced the original M-19 presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro León-Gómez when the latter was assassinated in April [ see pp. 37371-72 ] , also rejected extradition . |
| 25 | This was Tafari Makonnen , the future Emperor Haile Selassie , who had replaced the detested Dedjazmatch Balcha as Governor of Harar in 1911 . |
| 26 | For next the stewards decided that only those drivers who had completed the first lap would be allowed to re-start . |
| 27 | There was a request to Council to investigate the position of those who had completed the first module but were not registered and whether they should be allowed to attend the Keele Conference . |
| 28 | The team member on duty who had completed the initial referral form was also responsible for completing the pre-coded questionnaire . |
| 29 | Twelve thousand Spanish families who had served the French kingship followed Joseph across the Pyrenees after the battle of Vitoria . |
| 30 | Most initiatives arose from the ‘ movement left ’ — that amorphous network of local groupings , cultural ventures and autonomous campaigns that was the legacy of the libertarian revolts of the late 1960s and early 1970s — rather than from within the existing labour movement ( apart from the Institute for Workers ' Control , which in the mid-1970s looked as though it might become a major national forum for the newer movements of the 1970s and the earlier generation of intellectuals and trade unionists who had quit the Communist Party after 1956 ) . |