Example sentences of "who had [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only in large population centres but also in the countryside and small towns , those who had traditionally exercised power found themselves confronted , whether in newly constituted local councils or in the workplace , with a more open and popular style of politics and a more assertive lower class . |
| 2 | A woman who had just given birth was being lifted off a stretcher . |
| 3 | The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer . |
| 4 | When SAVE heard Sir Horace Jones ' Victorian market was to close and the traders move to new premises in Docklands , we immediately contacted Richard Rogers , who had just received planning permission for the new Lloyd 's building , to ask if he would work on a refurbishment scheme . |
| 5 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 6 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 7 | As my darling new mother ( whom I loved ) moved radiantly about the room introducing Derek , who had just directed Equus at the Contact Theatre , to Bryan , who was a freelance journalist specializing in film , or Karen , who was a secretary at a literary agency , to Robert , who was a designer ; as she spoke of the new Dylan album and what Riverside Studios was doing , I saw she wanted to scour that suburban stigma right off her body . |
| 8 | He swung her round and set her on her feet , looking at her as might a desert traveller who had just found water . |
| 9 | Two patients developed an acute psychosis : the first , who had just finished therapy , required intensive psychiatric care for two weeks ; the second , who had been treated with interferon for three weeks , fell and fractured the acetabulum . |
| 10 | Mr Palmer took action after Aqib bounced one to hit the helmet of No. 11 batsman Malcolm ( who had just avoided decapitation by Wasim Akram ) . |
| 11 | He left the set that day looking for all the world like a nine-stone weakling who had just thrown sand in the face of the beach bully . |
| 12 | Michael was working at home or away ; Shanti , who had just left school , was job-hunting . |
| 13 | He seemed very streetwise for a kid who had just left school . |
| 14 | Some of the boys who had just left school used to be mischieful when they brought the farm-horses in , but the smith had a few tricks to put them in their place . |
| 15 | He appeared to speak on behalf of others in his platoon , young men who had just left boyhood behind , as they crouched hunched over cleaning rags and oil , stripping down their SA-80 rifles and machine guns in the cramped confines of their bunk room . |
| 16 | Before he invaded Iran in 1980 , Mr Hussein tried hard to get on with the Islamic zealots who had just seized power in Tehran . |
| 17 | One example given by Davidoff and Hall is of Samuel Galton , a wealthy Birmingham banker who had also bought land . |
| 18 | That month the Earl ( or by Jacobite reckoning Duke ) of Ormonde visited Spain , at Alberoni 's invitation , to be followed by two other leading Jacobites , George Keith , the tenth Earl Marischal , who had commanded the cavalry at Sheriffmuir , and his brother James , known as Marshal Keith , who had also taken part in that campaign . |
| 19 | It was only after some years that he found the Thun-Hohensteins , who had also taken refuge in Bavaria , and could give it back to them . |
| 20 | At the age of seventeen he left home to pursue his trade as a tin miner in Devon , succumbed to drink and a profligate lifestyle , and on 16 July 1821 , at Kea church , took a wife , Joanne , who had also abandoned Methodism . |
| 21 | Their father , Oliver P. Bernard , the theatre designer who had worked at Covent Garden and the Boston Opera House and who had also designed Art Deco interiors for Lyons restaurants , had died insolvent , thereby terminating his sons ' education and obliging them to look for work . |
| 22 | And worse , we had recently found it necessary to replace two of the three giggling girls who had sadly fallen victim to the Spanish flu epidemic , and sack the third for incompetence . |
| 23 | A strong bloc of townsmen worth £10 and upwards made the average wealth of Bodmin , Cornwall , a trifle higher than in the rest of Trigg hundred , even though the taxed wage earners , who formed a negligible element in the country parishes , exceeded 40 per cent in the borough itself , numbers which point to a concentration of men who had effectively severed kinship ties with the Celtic extended family that so influenced the social structure of many villages . |
| 24 | Electing Roman Bartoszcze , a deputy who had formerly represented Solidarity , as party chairman , the meeting adopted a resolution on the unification of several strands of the peasant moment , including the PSL , the PSL-Rebirth and representatives of the newly created PSL-Solidarity ( PSL-S ) from six provinces . |
| 25 | Mary Stocks later wrote that ‘ this was a solemn thought for opponents who had formerly visualized family allowances as a threat to the wage earner 's incentive … it was her [ Eleanor Rathbone 's ] turn to talk of economic incentive now ’ . |
| 26 | He would have been compared favourably with reactionary governments in the West who had barely begun slum clearance . |
| 27 | Thousands of people in Qom on Jan. 5 demonstrated their opposition to the regime 's leading " moderate " dissident , Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri ( the designated spiritual successor to Ayatollah Khomeini until his resignation in March 1989 — see pp. 36538-39 ) , who had reportedly criticized government policies and claimed that Iran was selling oil to Israel . |
| 28 | These implied that one of her younger brothers , an immature boy who had n't reached puberty , had been sexually abusing both herself and a younger sister . |
| 29 | Poor Gloria who had n't had breakfast . |
| 30 | And the sirens escorted their prisoners from the Department to the Abu Ghraib gaol , and those who had not survived interrogation from the Abu Ghraib gaol to the Medical City Mortuary on the other side of the Al Sarafiyah Bridge . |