Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Border , who had hoped that Kruger would help them win points in four events at Gateshead , finished fourth , 74 behind winners Rotherham . |
| 2 | Initially Ramos expressed no opposition to the ruling but , on Aug. 17 , he altered his position following pressure from central bank governor Cuisia who had said that individuals would not be let off past breaches ; Justice Secretary Franklin Drilon , who had initially merely commented that the judge had made an erroneous decision , since the new regulations were not even in effect at the time of the ruling , later instructed government lawyers to investigate the possibility of an appeal against the dismissal of charges . |
| 3 | We had two statements before us : Teddy Mayer 's of McLaren , who had asserted that drivers were ‘ just interchangeable light bulbs : you plug them in and they do the job ’ and Bernard Ecclestone 's classic , ‘ no driver is worth more than $25,000 ‘ . |
| 4 | The criterion of simplicity could itself be referred , as it was by Newton , to a God who had ensured that nature did nothing in vain or , as it was by Michael Faraday in the nineteenth century , to a God who had ensured that the book of his works would be as simple to comprehend as the book of his words . |
| 5 | This is a bad day for Patrick , who had volunteered that Simon was ‘ one of a certain … persuasion ’ . |
| 6 | Owen , who had suspected that Zeinab was enjoying the drama , melted totally . |
| 7 | Kemp had acted at the urging of US Secretary of State James Baker , who had argued that Sharon 's settlements policy [ see p. 38168 ] was detrimental to US peace efforts in the Middle East . |
| 8 | Anguita had resigned as general co-ordinator of the IU on Nov. 27 , after opposing some PCE members and members of other parties within the alliance who had argued that parties making up the IU should dissolve to form one party . |
| 9 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 10 | In spite of his ritual attempt to distance himself from the young man who had written that poem , he knew very well that even his contemporary reputation in large part rested on it : that , and the last three of the Four Quartets , he told Ezra Pound , had been worth writing . |
| 11 | Omari gives a translation of an interesting example in reply to a reader who had written that Africans were ready for immediate self-rule : |
| 12 | Kind souls , such as Mr Smith , who had reckoned that Tiller had encouraged his son to set up on his own , were proved wrong . |
| 13 | As late as 1865 , the botanist J. D. Hooker wrote a revealing letter to Darwin in which he complained of the stance taken by their contemporary , Alfred Russel Wallace , who had wondered that scientists should be so afraid to say what they think . |
| 14 | Paul 's words and Paul 's example present us with a picture of a God who is the source of peace , and of a man who had learnt that God 's peace was on tap at all times . |
| 15 | There were many who had predicted that Roebuck would claim Greg Martin 's Test fullback position after that tour . |
| 16 | Bouterse , who had claimed that Brunswijk was being held on drugs charges , complied with a government written order , and released the Jungle Commando leader on March 28 . |
| 17 | In this he was probably hoping to answer those who had claimed that fear was the cause of his failure to appear during the campaign at Valencia . |
| 18 | ‘ Who looked after her when she was little ? ’ asked Betty , who had learned that Angharad 's mother had died giving birth to her . |
| 19 | The Wolf Riders , who had learned that Gambo 's cleaver was best avoided , were gathering ready to carry their assault into the Empire camp . |
| 20 | While monopoles fail to oblige experimenters and continue to evade detection , they also fail to oblige those astrophysicists who had thought that monopoles might be the answer to the problem of the missing solar neutrinos . |
| 21 | Astrel Charles , an opposition parliamentary deputy , was reported on Dec. 18 by the Caribbean news agency Trans World Radio ( Bonair ) to have been shot dead by a rural official who had demanded that Charles end a meeting with his constituents . |