Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calculating that the kidnappers might use the same initial rendezvous , Zen had informed Bartocci , who had authorized a phone-tap . |
| 2 | In that case a conviction of a manager for an insolvent certificate-holder , who had granted a trust deed , of having trafficked " without having a certificate " was suspended . |
| 3 | It may , however , be that even without this provision , a landlord who had granted a licence to a tenant signed by an authorised director could expect to be estopped from denying its effectiveness . |
| 4 | In 1911 , following six months ' military service with the Danish infantry , Rambush was invited to England by Arthur H. Lymn , who had formed a business in London to further develop and exploit commercially existing processes of gas production for industrial purposes . |
| 5 | Students due to enter the school that year had already been asked to volunteer for the parallel track , so two cohorts existed — those who had expressed a preference for the new approach and those who had not . |
| 6 | He already had a contact in a Swedish woman who had expressed a desire to work with the British , who was studying at Dresden . |
| 7 | " Proceeds " in s.5(4) covers money received from a third party who had cashed a cheque for the accused : Davis ( 1989 ) 88 Cr App R 347 ( CA ) . |
| 8 | In 1946 , under the supervision of the Population Investigation Committee , a survey was conducted of the experience of every mother who had borne a child in the first week in March of that year . |
| 9 | ‘ Once upon a time I 'd 've made you turn religious , ’ said Constance , and suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious , as anyone who had borne a child must surely be : not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls . |
| 10 | Well , with my interest intensifying , I went to see a number of other black sportsmen who had achieved a measure of success to compare their perceptions and experiences . |
| 11 | But he was under a cloud anyway after his men failed to find who had placed a bomb in the office of Major-General Seri Temiyaveh , the head of the Bangkok police department 's crime-suppression division . |
| 12 | Visitors attending the Festival of Underwater Sport held at Crystal Palace in London were met on their arrival by a large contingent of members from the Lewisham branch who had arranged a bucket collection and an indoor souvenir stall . |
| 13 | Dmitri agreed with her , and they had had a passionate argument last night with Marchak , who drove racing cars , and Frolovna , who had loved a matador for two weeks in Spain . |
| 14 | They were found in 16% of 98 children who had completed a course of sclerotherapy , all of whom responded to simple dilatation . |
| 15 | THE Cathedral bells rang out to celebrate the safe return of three cyclists who had completed a marathon trip from St Peter 's Rome , to St Peter 's , Lancaster , in order to raise money for the restoration of the bells . |
| 16 | CRAIG CHALMERS had the look of a man who had completed a job well-done . |
| 17 | Muhammad Mossadeq came from a wealthy family of landowners who had served a minister to the Cadgers . |
| 18 | Barry Stewart , prosecuting , said Sinclair , who was born with only one arm , was a persistent confidence trickster who had served a sentence of 18 months imprisonment for deception in 1990 . |
| 19 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 20 | Against her yielding flesh she could feel his heart thundering like a man who had run a marathon . |
| 21 | Boswell had two fears for the sociability of their stay at Cawdor : that his eminent companion might quarrel with their host who had revealed a penchant for speaking ‘ slightingly of the lower English clergy ’ , and that ‘ a whole evening at Calder-manse might be heavy ’ . |
| 22 | She would rather die of starvation , or sunburn , than face Piers Morrison , who had revealed a side to her which she had never even suspected existed . |
| 23 | The election was banned in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic ( an Azerbaijani enclave separated from Azerbaijan by Armenian land ) by its Supreme Soviet which was headed by Geydar Aliyev , a former CPSU politburo member [ see p. 36592 ] who had become a member of the Azerbaijani People 's Front . |
| 24 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 25 | A few years ago , he said , he met an old friend who had become a policeman . |
| 26 | Daniel , who had become a specialist in wild blows of chance , thought he understood some of it . |
| 27 | It fell to Joseph Franklin , the Rochdale Manager , to succeed a man who had become a legend in his time , but whose legacy was not an easy one . |
| 28 | He was a hero who had become a legend . |
| 29 | Smart had always attracted friends , and they served him well now , securing him the necessary recommendation to St Luke 's by a bookseller , perhaps a connection of Newbery 's , who had become a banker , probably one of the bankers who formed a majority of the Governors of St Luke 's . |
| 30 | He was accompanied by his Secretary , Dr. David Buxton , formerly headmaster at the Liverpool Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , who had become a convert to oral methods . |