Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining four records were of patients who had presented to neurology departments after 1983 . |
| 2 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 3 | Refereeing — especially some of the key areas in sevens such as high tackles and off-the-ball obstruction — was of a consistently sound level , though the tendency for players to dive on top of other players who had gone to deck to retrieve ball , which is illegal , went repeatedly unchecked , as did crossing . |
| 4 | There was the simple failure to recruit adequate replacements for those who had gone , particularly those who had gone to rugby league . |
| 5 | While the Sussex gentry who had gone to war for religion had to adjust to the need to maintain stability , many of the Puritan clergy could and would not . |
| 6 | He also recorded his suspicions that those paupers who had gone to prison were now wearing clothes belonging to the workhouse , and enquired whether their own clothes should be sent to them . |
| 7 | Being one of the few local boys who had gone to grammar school had given him that extra confidence early in life . |
| 8 | But in August last year she returned to her parents , who had moved to County Mayo in Ireland . |
| 9 | There was just one way he , as a man who had risen to eminence in his profession , had learned to do things . |
| 10 | A People 's Daily editorial of Jan. 16 , 1990 , entitled Leadership must be in the hands of loyal Marxists , called for the dismissal of party leaders " who do not have a firm political stand or staunch political qualities " , while Qiao Shi ( a member of the politburo standing committee who had risen to prominence in the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen massacre — see p. 36721 ) called for " particular efforts " to be made in strengthening party centralism and unity , and urged increased supervision over the implementation of central committee decisions at all levels . |
| 11 | From AD 235 to 285 the Empire was ruled by a succession of men , mostly of undistinguished provincial background , who had risen to power through the control of armies . |
| 12 | Mayne , who had retired to bed when they left , still mourning McGonigal , had contributed little to the training programme . |
| 13 | Later , when Aurangzeb ordered the decapitation of the naked fakir Sarmad , an Armenian Jew who had converted to Islam , the sage allegedly picked up his head and walked up the steps of the Jama Masjid . |
| 14 | , Elizabeth Phillipps ( 1851–1925 ) , teacher and organizer , was born in Carmarthen 22 June 1851 , the eldest of three daughters and second of five children of John Hughes , surgeon of Carmarthen , and his wife Anne , the daughter of a Jewish banker of Haverfordwest who had converted to Christianity and changed his surname from Levi to Phillipps . |
| 15 | One student , who had transferred to physics from medicine , explained the difference between chemistry and physics : |
| 16 | The young men who had grown to manhood in the past fourteen years had had no experience of war , and little of fighting , other than the kind that might break out between neighbours , or the kind they saw during their service at court , when a raid on coast or frontier had to be repelled , or the King 's justice enforced . |
| 17 | After a lot of pestering I was allowed to speak to two friends who had come to court with me , and I was appalled by having to speak to them through a glass and metal grille thing . |
| 18 | History appeared irrevocably on the side of the ageing generation of Communists who had come to maturity in the era of the great depression and Hitler . |
| 19 | Lord ( Cyril ) Radcliffe , a brilliant barrister who had come to attention by his achievements in the wartime civil service , succeeded Waverley that year , and lasted until 1977 . |
| 20 | The co-ordinator told me that many people who had come to therapy groups for anxieties or depressions were now volunteer workers . |
| 21 | The languages of earth — English , Italian , Hindustani and Chinese particularly — were known in some variation everywhere , though it seemed the Autarch — who had come to power in the confusion following the failed Reconciliation — favoured English , which was the preferred linguistic currency almost everywhere now . |
| 22 | Col. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza , who had come to power in a coup in 1976 , and had been elected President by direct suffrage in August 1984 , was overthrown in early September 1987 in a bloodless armed forces coup led by Maj. Pierre Buyoya [ see pp. 35631-32 ] . |
| 23 | It was widely believed that this provision had been specifically inserted to prevent a return to office by Ríos Montt , an evangelical Protestant who had come to power in the wake of a military coup and ruled as dictator from March 1982 to August 1983 [ see pp. 31605-07 ; 32494-96 ] . |
| 24 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries those who had climbed to prosperity on the back of the slave trade were regularly leaving property and assets worth anything between £16,000 and £1 million . |
| 25 | The panellists were selected from a group of 111 people who had responded to newspaper advertisements . |
| 26 | On this occasion Cooke led a delegation to see O'Neill who had responded to pressure from a Unionist MP , Austin Ardill , to meet the men . |
| 27 | Diana told William , who had returned to school a day earlier : ‘ I 've got some things inside the car for you . ’ |
| 28 | But other NATO leaders , especially Charles de Gaulle who had returned to power in France , supported Adenauer 's desire for firmness . |
| 29 | The door was hastily opened , but too late to save the life of poor William , who had starved to death . |