Example sentences of "who had [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After suffering their worst defeat in any general election since 1968 , the Socialists yesterday repeated their call , to disillusioned left-wing voters and those who had abstained to turn out in force on Sunday , to block too sweeping a right-wing victory . |
| 2 | Chief environmental health officer Hugh O'Neill said firemen who had gone to put out fires on the site had been attacked by missile throwers , and now had to be accompanied by police . |
| 3 | In April 1945 , Truman 's government played host to representatives from 50 countries at San Francisco who had met to draw up the Charter for the United Nations . |
| 4 | The hijackers , who had threatened to blow up the aircraft , surrendered to Thai authorities in the early hours of Oct. 7 ; none of the 79 passengers or four crew was injured . |
| 5 | He does not have Evelyn 's elegance , either , although his spare , laconic , style can produce some memorable passages ; here , for example , is a Queen Christina of Sweden — very different from her portrayal by Greta Garbo — telling Whitelocke , who had hesitated to pass on a letter and a mastiff sent by the preacher , Hugh Peter , that ‘ the dog and the letter did belong to her , and she would have them ’ . |
| 6 | This sprang from the arrest of a middle-aged black woman , Rosa Parks , who had refused to give up her seat in the section the bus reserved for whites . |
| 7 | Porter peered over the landing rail , through the steel netting that was strung from one side to the other , and noticed that , on the landing below , prisoners who had finished slopping out had not in fact returned to their cells but were standing outside , their attempts at entry barred by warders . |
| 8 | Sometimes I would hear conversations about the war when some of the older men in the dale came to chat and have a cup of tea in the kitchen with Uncle Tommy , who had come to take over Low Birk Hatt after Father died . |
| 9 | Staff who had tried to buy out the company to keep it working say they 're devastated . |
| 10 | The day before he had just bumped into Mauve , ‘ happily delivered of his large picture , ’ who had promised to call in . |
| 11 | As a favour to the Presbyterians and other religious leaders who had helped bring about the restoration , some were made king 's chaplains , including Dr. Calamy , Dr. Manton , Richard Baxter and nine others . |
| 12 | The next day , Beaverbrook ( who , with Amery , had been among those who had helped bring down the Lloyd George coalition in 1922 ) ‘ strongly urged ’ Amery ‘ to work closely with Hailsham both to keep the positive campaign going and decide when the critical moment should come for putting an end to the Coalition ’ . |
| 13 | Most of them looked cold and miserable , and they were the men who had bought meals there when they could afford to do so , men who had helped build up the business . |
| 14 | In some of the photographs , the Turks who had helped to carry out their government 's orders to liquidate the Armenians are standing beside the corpses , grinning into the camera . |
| 15 | Berdichev nodded tersely and walked on , not waiting for Clarac , who had to hurry to catch up with him . |
| 16 | Yet there was also a genuine upsurge of religious feeling , of anger and hatred towards the infidels who had dared seize back the ‘ holy earth ’ so dearly bought with the blood of the First Crusade . |
| 17 | At Siwa they met up with Lieutenant Jaquier , one of the Free French , and his patrol , who had managed to blow up ammunition dumps at Barce , and a solitary Lieutenant Jordan accompanied by Captain Buck . |
| 18 | The passengers had n't over-enjoyed their sojourn in the station , it appeared , as they had been fallen upon by the flock of pressmen who had taken Xanthe back again to the brink of hysteria , and had asked Mercer whether it was n't unwise to flaunt the privilege of wealth in his private car , and had n't he invited trouble by adding it to the train ? |
| 19 | He was raving at Maurin , at all the people who had failed to live up to his expectations of them . |
| 20 | It is evident that the defeat of the Austrian Socialists was felt more strongly in Britain than that of the Germans , who had failed to put up an armed resistance and who were divided by the struggle between the Communists and the Social Democrats . |
| 21 | Some who had failed to get out of the way in time bore the scars like war wounds or medals which they paraded for public admiration . |
| 22 | Half a dozen trainees who had failed to get out were still inside . |
| 23 | The younger ones had simpler jobs , like delivering copies of the War Cry to corps members who had failed to show up for service on Sunday . |