Example sentences of "who had [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 2 | ‘ All that 's fine , ’ I said , though I was n't particularly interested in the vows of a child who had just gone to boarding school . |
| 3 | Michael Perrin , a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place . |
| 4 | Julia , who had just returned to work after major brain surgery , was given the three-times-a-week slot Focus on Britain in the revamped News at Ten . |
| 5 | That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing . |
| 6 | That was quite enough for someone who had just admitted to disliking exchanges of confidence except to his intimates . |
| 7 | He asked if he could also have bonus money for the people below who had also contributed to his efforts . |
| 8 | There they joined Japanese geologists who had also come to McMurdo Station that season to search for meteorites . |
| 9 | Koreans who had formerly looked to Japan for help against a conservative , autocratic government and for encouragement to ‘ modernize ’ now found themselves subordinated to those self same Japanese , deprived of an independent voice . |
| 10 | Alex Montgomery , Export Director , presented her with a crystal decanter and a cheque on behalf of colleagues who had generously contributed to the leaving present . |
| 11 | Athelstan agreed ; the landlord of the Piebald Horse was a one-armed , reformed sea pirate who had confidentially explained to the friar how he would love to go to church but the smell of incense always made him feel ill . |
| 12 | Group 4 comprised follow up of histologically normal biopsy specimens from five patients , previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease , who had strictly adhered to a gluten free diet . |
| 13 | You know , the decision whether we were gon na go back to work because of these threatening letters was taken by the forty well fifty members of the lodge , so in effect I was sacked by people who had since returned to work , but you know that 's how it should be . |
| 14 | After undergoing medical tests in Australia , Lini returned to work on June 14 and , on June 27 , dismissed four ministers who had not acceded to his loyalty pledge . |
| 15 | To meet new people meant a lot to me because those of my Fontanellato friends who had not gone to school in Parma had already started work . |
| 16 | At this there was a muted growl of support from those in the hall who had not succumbed to a heavy lunch . |
| 17 | They were very young , and totally dependent on the Durbeyfield couple : six helpless creatures who had not asked to be born at all , much less to be part of the irresponsible Durbeyfield family . |
| 18 | Curators of the ‘ Matisse 1904–17 ’ exhibition think Shchukin has started the case to pressure Russian authorities who had not replied to earlier requests about the paintings . |
| 19 | Apart from his former wife , Mr Edward Stratton was the only one of the original group who had not listened to Morse that morning . |
| 20 | He recalled with amazement , as if it were years ago , his first shocked vision of the adult Irina , the shaggy , sullen , unkempt ‘ gipsy ’ girl standing at the door of Red Cottage who had not spoken to him , and whom he had even conjectured to be mentally defective . |
| 21 | The crowds who gathered round the palace were respectable citizens cheering a king who had already conceded to the army and to provincial garrisons : they were not an organized pressure group which had forced the crown to become liberal by accepting the constitution of 1812 , appointing a liberal municipality , and a Junta to supervise the establishment of the constitution . |
| 22 | Business chose women who had already got to the top in their careers , or were high-calibre middle managers still on their way up . |
| 23 | The government 's inertia was demonstrated both by its reluctance to investigate the murder of Council member Serge Villard in June , and its failure to arrest Williams Regala , a notorious Duvalierist former military officer and minister who had openly returned to Haiti in July despite the existence of an outstanding warrant for his arrest . |
| 24 | He was soon overpowered with either sleep or cold , when his faithful defendant , who had closely attended to every step , scratched away the snow so as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master ; then mounting upon the exposed body , rolled himself round and lay upon his master 's bosom , for which his shaggy coat proved a most seasonable covering and eventual protection during the dreadful severity of the night , the snow falling all the time . |
| 25 | French police said they had arrested her stepson , 27-year-old Trevor Keith Hollett , who had allegedly confessed to the murder . |
| 26 | That defeat caused France — who had previously looked to Russia as an ally — to look to Britain for mutual support , enhancing the Entente Cordiale which had developed following King Edward 's visit to Paris , with Queen Alexandra , in May 1903 . |
| 27 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 28 | Tobie was watching Loppe , who had suddenly disappeared to the shore , and was now coming back rather more slowly . |
| 29 | Mary was the only one of them , as far as he knew , who had ever walked to the village and walked about in the village when she got there . |
| 30 | It was Edna who had actually imparted to her the facts of life , Edna who had accurately predicted how long each governess would last , Edna who had vowed she would name her first daughter after Celia — and kept her promise . |