Example sentences of "who have [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter White of Midland Bank was less convinced , complaining of the failure of some large firms to adhere to a strict off-limits policy , and described an even worse practice of advancing a candidate who has undertaken to engage the headhunter involved at a later date if he or she lands the job . |
| 2 | Skarsnik is a cunning and observant leader who has grown to understand the Dwarf mind . |
| 3 | But he demolished rumours of a furious row involving Christie and John Regis , who has agreed to rejoin the short sprint squad as well as running for our 4 x 400 world champions . |
| 4 | Farewell to : Secretary who has left to await the arrival of her baby . |
| 5 | Fourthly , a member who has failed to make the declaration of acceptance of office ( see ante , p. 28 ) automatically ceases to be a member . |
| 6 | Tonight the cellist Vedran Smailovic , who has come to represent the very soul of the besieged city , performs simultaneously with three other cellists in different capitals around the world . |
| 7 | In a preface he drafted shortly before his death for a prospective collection of his verse , the man who has come to epitomize the soldier-poet wrote : ‘ Above all I am not concerned with Poetry . |
| 8 | Such interjections are clearly ironic as they are likely to be those of the ‘ trained ’ nouveau roman reader who has come to regard the decentring of the author as paradigmatic of contemporary experimental fiction . |
| 9 | Her mother had thought she would fail and had pinned all her hopes on Dana , who 'd begun to attract the attention of the Press . |
| 10 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 11 | The schools who 've volunteered to help the orphans will meet the cost of the air fares and fees themselves . |
| 12 | I think half the people who 've come to see the house suspect I 'm a sitting tenant . ’ |
| 13 | That much sooner and in the last hour , couple of hours we 've seen what I would call a Tweedledee and Tweedledum amendments erm because quite frankly there is n't that much difference between them er at the end of the day the impact on the people who 've had to pay the bill is virtually the same . |
| 14 | Only gradually did the commercial preoccupation with the projector and the venue shift to a greater interest in the films themselves and then very much the same kind of people who had struggled to control the machines and theatres began to make and distribute the films . |
| 15 | ( There had earlier been a clash between Dr. Yeats and Lady St. John who had called to inspect the infirmary . |
| 16 | Wheeler , who was junior to them both , who had contrived to have the best set of rooms in the office and who had successfully requested both men to wait on him , cleared his throat to announce that he was ready to start the discussion . |
| 17 | Those who had hoped to see the , return of a comprehensive church encompassing a wide spectrum of opinion were disappointed , for the restored Anglican church of the 1660s possessed a narrow , virtually Laudian theological base . |
| 18 | The Ports-Crues match will be played at The Oval on Tuesday , September 21 , much to the annoyance of Glenavon who had hoped to host the tie at their upgraded ground . |
| 19 | At first he had assumed that it must be Siban , baulked from attaining the Dragon Throne , who had hoped to govern the realm through the medium of his son . |
| 20 | This evidence fits statements from Dennis Johnson , who had arranged to meet the suspected bombers around midday at 17 Campbell Road to hand over the keys to the holiday home . |
| 21 | Our friends , who had gone to investigate the river , quickly decided that the call of the Kinloch Rannoch Hotel was far stronger than the call of April fishing . |
| 22 | Joanna spoke softly , with one eye on Helen , who had gone to sterilise the instruments . |
| 23 | All who had gone to help the stricken townsfolk mixed with those who had lived through the disaster , and were present to mourn and pay a last tribute to their relatives , friends and neighbours , whose coffins , borne by men of the Fire Service , they now followed . |
| 24 | It was he , above all , who had determined to tackle the Scottish question head on , he who wanted it and a broad defence of the British constitution to be at the heart of the Tory campaign . |
| 25 | Although the Second Duma saw a small increase in the number of right-wing deputies , more striking was the decline in the number of Kadet deputies and the advance of the extreme Left , including Social Democrats and SRs who had decided to abandon the electoral boycott they had staged during the elections to the First Duma . |
| 26 | There was a marvellous audacity about a ruler who had decided to enter the lists and joust against the elements . |
| 27 | May , sporting an Elvis Presley head-piece nodded to Jenny who had decided to don the best selling Scousers wig set comprising curly wig and moustache straight out of the Harry Enfield 's series . |
| 28 | I was amused , several years after I delivered the lecture , to be approached by the late Lord Rothschild — who had undertaken to discharge the lecture in that year — with an enquiry about the fee I had received . |
| 29 | Sitting back on her seat , she relaxed as the engine started and the long , low open canal boat passed under the first of the very low bridges which spanned the narrow waterways , and tuned in her ear to the English commentary being given by the boat 's guide , mentally turning off when it was followed in French and German to engage in a desultory conversation with a fellow countryman who had chanced to take the place beside her , a pleasant young man attending his first seminar in Denmark . |
| 30 | The Curator did not see the look in Mr Wolski 's eyes as he glanced back to the window and stared again at the wolves outside , who had turned to face the icy wind with narrowed yellow eyes . |