Example sentences of "who had [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " 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 | 1989 ) we asked those who had just adopted children whether they would be prepared or willing to accept or consider adoption with contact . |
| 3 | In a separate incident on Sunday night , a policewoman escaped injury when she stumbled upon three burglars who had just raided Brooks the jewellers in Eastgate Rows , Chester . |
| 4 | A woman who had just given birth was being lifted off a stretcher . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At the request of a UN under-secretary-general , Martti Ahtisaari , who had just visited Iraq , the sanctions committee decided last week to let Iraq buy food for hungry people and generators to work sewage plants . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Gloucestershire informed Courtney Walsh , who had just led Jamaica , apparently inspiringly , to the Red Stripe title , that they were preferring Bill Athey as ‘ Billy ’ Wright 's deputy this year . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He swung her round and set her on her feet , looking at her as might a desert traveller who had just found water . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Simon Vinkenoog , the founder of Sigma Nederland provided a piece from Amsterdam for the first issue on the then prominent Provos , the proto-Green anarchists who had just won seats on that city 's council . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But a few days before the squad was chosen , Rob Saunders , of London Irish , who had just changed jobs , informed Fitzgerald that he would have to change his mind and refuse the invitation . |
| 18 | Michael was working at home or away ; Shanti , who had just left school , was job-hunting . |
| 19 | He seemed very streetwise for a kid who had just left school . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Before he invaded Iran in 1980 , Mr Hussein tried hard to get on with the Islamic zealots who had just seized power in Tehran . |
| 23 | To our church came such spiritual giants as Rev Reginald Barlett of Samoa , and the South Seas , Miss Mabel Shaw of Mbershi , whose adopted daughter is helping with modern Zambia , a housewoman from Dr Ida Scudder 's hospital at Velore , central India and a missionary from China who knew about the conditions there and in Hong Kong , and who had also met Toyohiko Kagawa of Japan and knew that , in very truth , this son of a Geisha and who knows who , was a world figure , now pleading at the League of Nations for more attention to World Health than to armaments . |
| 24 | O'Shea , an oboe player who had also made albums for a west London record label , admitted the manslaughter of Miss Turner and was sent indefinitely to a secure mental hospital . |
| 25 | Worse hit are the 3,000 people who bought homes through the Household Mortgage Corporation , who had also arranged policies with Cornhill . |
| 26 | In 1858 Wallace ( who had also read Malthus ) hit upon the idea of natural selection and wrote up an account , which he sent to Darwin , who was widely known to be interested in the species question . |
| 27 | One example given by Davidoff and Hall is of Samuel Galton , a wealthy Birmingham banker who had also bought land . |
| 28 | British Coal had decided to sell the house for conversion into a hotel to Roo Management , a company run by an Australian businessman who had also bought Holme Lacey in Herefordshire with the intention of making it a hotel . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |