Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In people who had achieved entirely normal linguistic skills , brain damage can reduce or even abolish such skills . |
| 2 | It upstaged even Mr and Mrs Wilson , who had gone markedly quiet since Maisie entered the field . |
| 3 | Steve looked across at Ruth who had gone deathly pale and was watching him with her mouth gaping open . |
| 4 | There was a sense among them , even the innocent ones , of naughty children who had gone too far and had been abandoned by their parents . |
| 5 | Straightening , he turned to Lori , who had gone as white as a sheet , and had backed up to the door like an animal at bay . |
| 6 | , who had felt perfectly well , was astonished to discover he had the early stages of tuberculosis . |
| 7 | By the late eighteenth century it was increasingly common for rural parishes to remit payments to their poor who had become temporarily chargeable elsewhere , rather than have them delivered back . |
| 8 | Two of the three involved have been mentioned in the previous section : first was Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law , who had become more content with continued home care after one year . |
| 9 | For the first three or four days after the Residency had been abandoned a number of the ladies had been employed in making cartridges ; now , because of the shortage of lead for the moulds , the job had been left to Lucy , who had become extraordinarily skilful . |
| 10 | Rohmer , who had become so silent , looked at the storm-driven snow and the living electricity which buffeted the window nearest to him . |
| 11 | Since none of the candidates obtained an overall majority , Walesa ( who had fallen well short of his objective of outright victory in the first round ) and Tyminski would contest a run-off for the presidency on Dec. 9 . |
| 12 | The highest nobility were only very few in numbers , so that when we speak of their hold upon military commands we must , consciously or not , include those who had inherited relatively low noble rank or who had only risen that far through their own efforts . |
| 13 | But recently , the City of Westminster successfully prosecuted both an owner and builder , who had stripped out large quantities of fine panelling from an early eighteenth-century house in Soho , on a total of no less than fourteen charges . |
| 14 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 15 | In February 1940 she was writing to the Chief Rabbi to report on two of Solomon Schonfeld 's children who had turned up unannounced at Bloomsbury House . |
| 16 | Sir Victor Sassoon , who had waited so long to own a Derby winner , won three of the next seven runnings . |
| 17 | The man who had hunted down countless villains on the screen crumbled when it came to punishing a little white dimpled ball measuring 1.68 inches in diameter . |
| 18 | There was little scope left for the condottiere , no possibility of the rise of a new crop of Wallensteins or Mansfelds , the warlords and military entrepreneurs who had played so great a part in the struggles of the 1620s and 1630s . |
| 19 | He who had begun so terrible an undertaking , how can we be sure he did not , after all , stay and finish it ? ’ |
| 20 | Maria Filippa understood his lassitude , condoned his inertia ; and for that he felt an overwhelming gratitude , because he knew other wives who would have grown impatient with such a husband , who had begun so promising , so full of the future and then … what with headaches , lack of nerve , had found he no longer had the energy , the stomach for getting on . |
| 21 | The second , whom Dr Macdonald saw the following day , was a young pregnant woman who had developed rapidly increasing oedema , a dangerous symptom in pregnancy . |
| 22 | The girl who had stared so hard at-Eileen darted through and closed the door . |
| 23 | In the first of these studies , Greer and Bagley ( 1971 ) found after an 18-month follow-up that patients who had received no psychiatric attention before discharge from hospital after attempts repeated more often ( 39 per cent ) than those who had received either brief psychiatric contact ( 26 per cent repeated ) or more prolonged psychiatric contact ( 20 per cent repeated ) . |
| 24 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 25 | Anderson , who had pleaded not guilty and claimed the woman had handed him ‘ sex on a plate ’ , was convicted by a 10-2 majority of raping the woman on 4 April , last year . |
| 26 | Members of the local black community were enraged by reports that the driver of the vehicle , Yoseph Lisef , 22 , who had sustained only minor injuries , was quickly taken away from the scene of the accident by a private Jewish ambulance service , whilst the more seriously injured children were left to wait for attention from a city ambulance crew . |
| 27 | And the generals who had grown too popular had been commanded to perform one last service by falling upon their swords . |
| 28 | Ian Watson , the student in question was a clever young man who had worked very hard to achieve his place at the higher seat of learning ; he found it very difficult to manage on the pittance that his father allowed him . |
| 29 | Susan and Gay were the people she liked best in the world , and when her father died she had made a mental vow that she would do everything in her power to make life happy for this sister of hers who had worked so hard and shown such courage . |
| 30 | part of the process of universal involvement in recognition of Artai as Lord of the Earth now necessitated the removal of the Dragon Throne — a solid piece of carving of the weight of seven thousand diram — with its occupant from the top of the plinth down to the concourse from whence it was destined to be borne on a processional route on the shoulders of teams of men of every degree in the Khanate , most of whom had been selected by lot , although there were a few who had paid out considerable sums in gold koban for the privilege of inclusion . |