Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | American fishkeepers who had maintained this fish had a somewhat different view . |
| 3 | No one ever knew who had fed this line to Kim . |
| 4 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 5 | Anna liked and sympathised with the girl who had written this letter . |
| 6 | ‘ Probably an interositor , ’ said Tuppe , who had seen This Island Earth three times . |
| 7 | Police discovered them in a raid , after they were tipped off by a buyer who had seen this advert in the motoring magazine Exchange and Mart . |
| 8 | Though he was the descendant of a family who had done this sort of task for generation after generation , George nevertheless made it look as though he were acting . |
| 9 | The captain , who had done this sort of thing before , did not discuss it and discouraged any of his officers and men from doing so . |
| 10 | She was called upon , day after day , to sustain Mrs Browning in her awful anxiety and she did it willingly , dragging out from the furthermost corners of her memory evidence of Miss Henrietta s strength and fortitude together with examples of women of whom she had heard who had survived this disease . |
| 11 | Her Royal Highness went round the room meeting many of those who had supported this Gala evening . |
| 12 | Take-up has stemmed partly from the wish of those companies trading internationally and particularly in the highly litigious US to protect their directors and partly because , as Willis Corroon 's Drew Hardie said , ‘ when directors who had had this cover then moved to other companies they asked for it to be part of their new contract ’ . |
| 13 | To determine the effect of cholecystectomy , the women who had had this operation were compared with the women who were discovered on ultrasonography to have gall stones ( n=48 , aged 25 to 67 , mean 45 ) , all but three of whom were asymptomatic . |
| 14 | Yet Roxborough Tower was kept well by its owners , who once every month or so gathered in the single room which occupied the top floor of the building in the name of the man who had owned this plot of land two hundred years before , and who had left |
| 15 | Yet it had been Eleanor who had started this war of words ; Eleanor who had tried to interfere in something that should have been none of her business . |
| 16 | She was the one who had initiated this skirmish . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes ? ’ said Snizort , who had forgotten this business of having your thoughts overheard . |
| 18 | Obviously the men who had used this room over the years had tried to flick their cigarettes into the hearth from the bed , and the majority had missed . |
| 19 | Then he began to recite a litany of the individual bones and of the past Commanders who had held this fortress-monastery for the Emperor . |
| 20 | Lee Kuan Yew , the former Prime Minister and current Senior Minister who had held this post for some 35 years , would continue to serve as a member of the party 's central executive committee . |
| 21 | That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court . |
| 22 | When I returned to Washington and told this story , I received several accounts of severe reactions , including psychosis , among healthy individuals who had taken this drug . |
| 23 | She was on her feet , kicking the trunks , then flinging books , papers , jars , all around the attic , shouting abuse at the people who had left this rubbish up here . |