Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The white stone palais of the governor of Cochin-China was built in the grandiloquent , neoclassical style favoured by those fervently patriotic Frenchmen who had erected the great public buildings of Paris in the late nineteenth century . |
| 2 | The case which had prompted these remarks involved a 13-year-old schoolboy , John Bird from Camden , who had shot an 18-year-old greengrocer 's son in the arm . |
| 3 | In his acceptance speech , Mr. Mates thanked all the East Hampshire District Council staff who had taken part in the count and to all those who had manned the 51 polling stations . |
| 4 | For while the royal bureaucrats gained the upper hand in fact , the other classes in the community who had upheld the medieval constitutionalism the barons and the free towns , and above all the church — developed secularized versions of natural law . |
| 5 | He used to be the crier , but had recently taken over from Fred Harrison who had proclaimed the fair annually for the last thirty years . |
| 6 | And now , slumped in the rich-smelling old leather of Stanley 's back seat , he felt like a rabbit who had escaped the human cordon . |
| 7 | In June 1963 , Pope John XXIII , the Pope who had called the second Vatican Council , died . |
| 8 | Still in the realm of half-backs , the original conclusion from the post-match inquest into who had called the back-row move which led indirectly to that heartbreaking injury to Craig Chalmers — that it had come from half-back — was subsequently rescinded . |
| 9 | He was a big , bald man who had toed the papist line for the past few years under Mary , and was now willing to return to Anglicanism should that be the wish of his Bishop . |
| 10 | The theology of Paracelsus celebrated the mercy of a God who had granted the human mind sufficient illumination to cultivate nature and to extract those gifts necessary for subsistence . |
| 11 | On Nov. 3 Sendero guerrillas murdered 37 people who had formed a civil defence group in the Andean village of Santo Tomás de Pata . |
| 12 | However , those who had expressed a general interest in politics during the parliamentary mid-term were more likely to see bias on the television and in their papers early in the campaign . |
| 13 | In Parliament on May 2 de Klerk ( who had announced the proposed all-party conference on April 18 — see p. 38131 ) said that he intended to go ahead with it with or without the ANC , which had set a deadline of May 9 for its demands to be met . |
| 14 | In June he replaced an enlightened Minister of Education with an admiral who had conducted the Russian mission to Japan during the Crimean War and was identified in the public mind with oriental despotism . |
| 15 | They had been caught up with at Dornock , east of Annan , on the shore of the Solway , by a fast-riding English host under Sir Anthony de Lucy of Cockermouth , who had crossed the shallow firth at lowest tide by the temporarily dried-out Knockeross sands , from Bowness in Cumberland . |
| 16 | In the year 430 the Vandals , who had crossed the Mediterranean not long before , were battering at the walls of St Augustine 's home town as he lay there dying . |
| 17 | Skipping an Ipswich rink , Roy Cutts , who had achieved a rare distinction of qualifying for all four championships — singles , pairs , triples and fours — went out in the first round of the fours to Egham of Surrey . |
| 18 | Some years ago I worked with a golfer who had achieved a considerable amount of success , winning several amateur trophies . |
| 19 | Habré stated that five seats in the National Assembly would be allocated to women who had achieved the highest number of votes as runners-up , to join the two women who had succeeded in being elected . |
| 20 | The very year when Mary offered her kingdom to France saw the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , that colossal and most admired figure of the sixteenth century , who had achieved the impossible by holding together an inheritance which sprawled across Europe . |
| 21 | Robert Hardy — who had arranged a nifty transfer to London — confirms this . |
| 22 | The 138 patients who had recognised a potential condom failure represented only 45% of the 309 who had conceived while using this method . |
| 23 | An adequate knowledge of the existence , timing , and source of postcoital pills was shown by 52 ( 30% ) of the 171 patients who had recognised a potential contraceptive failure and 25 ( 12% ) of the 210 who had not used any contraception — that is , 77 ( 20% ) of the 381 patients who might have benefited from their use . |
| 24 | Dorothy had dealt with both of them , aided by Isobel 's giddy young sister-in-law , who had explained the social nuances of it all by saying : ‘ That pair of grasping alley cats would tear the eyes out of anyone who managed to make the social pages of the Tollemarche Advent on a day when they should have been featured . |
| 25 | It seems reasonable to ask , though , why a side who had gone the previous 42 games undefeated , were allowed to spend such a relatively undemanding afternoon in the company of a team who ought to have harboured more serious intent than was ever evident . |
| 26 | The Czech , who had replaced a concussed Tony Roberts after 17 minutes , hesitated over a Neal Ardley cross and was left stranded as Earle looped a header over him and into an empty net . |
| 27 | General Erich von Falkenhayn , who had replaced the discredited Moltke as Chief of Staffon 14 September 1914 , determined as a first measure to reduce the fortress of Antwerp , where King Albert , with the tenacious Belgian Field Army of six divisions , had taken refuge in August . |
| 28 | Navarro , who had replaced the original M-19 presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro León-Gómez when the latter was assassinated in April [ see pp. 37371-72 ] , also rejected extradition . |
| 29 | This was Tafari Makonnen , the future Emperor Haile Selassie , who had replaced the detested Dedjazmatch Balcha as Governor of Harar in 1911 . |
| 30 | Mr. Leonard Coote , the out-going Vice-President was elected President for a two-year term in succession to Mr. Andy Heffernan who had completed a two-year term . |