Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially Peres concentrated his efforts on winning the support of the five Shas members who had abstained in the March 15 confidence vote and of the two Degel Hatorah members , both of whom had supported Likud in the vote . |
| 2 | So a NZ trained PPL would probably be much more at home with UK weather conditions after qualifying than one who had trained in the USA . |
| 3 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 4 | Van Gelder broke off to accept a sheet of paper from a seaman who had appeared in the doorway , glanced briefly at the message and handed it without a word to Talbot , who read it in turn , muttered something inaudible and swung his legs to the deck . |
| 5 | I did n't realize Farouk … ’ she trailed off when she saw Graham and Laidlaw both look past her , their eyes riveted on the man who had appeared in the doorway . |
| 6 | The accent was good enough to fool Canadian-born Bernard Braden , who had appeared in The War Lover but had not met Crawford during the filming , into thinking he really was American . |
| 7 | Gilchrist , who had appeared in the dock casually dressed in jeans and a striped open necked shirt , will appear at Evesham court again next Wednesday . |
| 8 | Mircea Druc , who had stood in the presidential elections as an independent candidate campaigning for the unification of Romania , Bessarabia ( now Moldova and parts of Ukraine ) and Bukovina ( also part of Ukraine ) , was elected leader of the newly formed National Reunification Party on Nov. 4 . |
| 9 | In April , however , our colleagues on the lovely island of Arran managed to upstage their rivals who had featured in the local newspaper a few weeks previously . |
| 10 | The young Palestinian men who had gathered in the room to hear her story sat quietly , knowing that she would finish her grief and that this was a ritual even if it was a deeply felt one . |
| 11 | For example , in 1976 , three DUP councillors in Ballymena boycotted the Remembrance Day service ( an event they would normally have been very keen to support ) because a Roman Catholic priest who had served in the Royal Naval Reserve was reading a lesson . |
| 12 | After the 1987 election , the parliamentary party had only eleven MPs who had served in the Guards , and a further eight who had been cavalry officers . |
| 13 | By 1916 Kisling , who had served in the French Foreign Legion , was discharged wounded and working at his studio , No. 3 Rue Joseph Bara , and Modigliani often worked there with him . |
| 14 | The survey is the result of ex-servicemen , who had served in the South Pacific tests , and their relatives contacting the BBC television programme Nationwide . |
| 15 | A number of undergraduates were men in their mid-twenties who had served in the war and whose university education had therefore been deferred . |
| 16 | A Matagalpa prison official claimed that the US government arranged for officials who had served in the Korean and Vietnam wars to go to Nicaragua to teach the National Guard methods of torture . |
| 17 | The dangers inherent in the situation had been brought home to senior figures in the Reagan camp who had served in the Nixon administration . |
| 18 | The leadership of the army was heavily influenced for a generation to come by those who had served in the ranks of the Imperial Japanese army ; five of the first seven chiefs of staff and three of the ministers of defence between 1948 and 1961 were officers trained at the Imperial Defence College in Tokyo . |
| 19 | I had initially become interested in things military through my father , who had served in the Cavalry in World War Two . |
| 20 | The latest addition to our English-speaking group was a Rhodesian who had served in the Rhodesian Light Infantry in the war of Independence and who told endless stories of shooting black terrorists , or ‘ floppies ’ , in cross border raids into Zambia . |
| 21 | Truly , a former astronaut , who had served in the post for two years [ for his appointment see p. 37437 ] , had been criticized by the Bush administration for his support for the shuttle programme , which was deemed insufficiently cost-effective when compared with rival launching systems . |
| 22 | Last year the rebuilt Memorial to the Fallen was unveiled in the centre of the town and on it , as well as the names who had served in the military were those of the 11 whose lives were lost . |
| 23 | During the plague , the rich people and most of the ministers who had remained in the established church fled from London . |
| 24 | Jean , who had remained in the doorway as an interested spectator , spoke shyly to Silas . |
| 25 | The government 's Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development characterized as " generally acceptable " the report 's recommendation that an apology should be made and that a travel fund should be established to allow those Inuit who had remained in the northern Arctic to visit relatives who had returned to Quebec province . |
| 26 | Those members of the Nikola Petkov Bulgarian National Agrarian Union ( BZNS ) who had remained in the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) after part of the BZNS split off to form a separate party before the October 1991 elections [ see p. 38539 ] now set up their own separate BZNS within the UDF . |
| 27 | Two such passages stand out in my memory : one was of a forced march during the Crimean War ; the other , an account by someone who had travelled in the west of Ireland in the years of the Great Hunger . |
| 28 | ‘ You sit in the front row , ’ the guard informed Manescu as other members who had travelled in the cavalcade began to filter into the large room . |
| 29 | The reabsorption into landed society of those families who had suffered in the upheavals of the past decade was to be a slow process , and was to give rise to fresh disputes over lands claimed by families who had been on opposite sides , but Edward showed over the next twenty years that loyalty and service would receive their due reward . |
| 30 | He portrayed himself as victim of imperialism , as a man who had suffered in the struggle against colonial rule , but who would not let it beat him . |