Example sentences of "who had [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendants who had contracted to refurbish a block of flats sub-contracted the carpentry work to the plaintiff for a price of £20,000 to be paid in instalments related to the work completed . |
| 2 | The arrival of Mosley would mean a British controlling interest at the top , much to the astonishment of the French and the Italians , the selfstyled ‘ Mediterranean mafia ’ who had hoped to retain a balance of power . |
| 3 | There were others , such as Marie , who had hoped to gain a greater understanding of a subject they loved , and found themselves bogged down in a process of constant marking and grading , passing and failing . |
| 4 | A local case which produced front-page headlines — ‘ Vicious schemer ’ is jailed for life SHAM TEARS OF AN EVIL WIFE — described how a former Coventry man who had moved to become a licensee in a Yorkshire pub had been killed by his 32-year-old wife and her barman lover . |
| 5 | People who had travelled to find a vantage point near RAF Marham , where the air force was enjoying its 75th anniversary celebrations , were forced to make their way home again . |
| 6 | The blow was almost as great for John , who had begun to enjoy a family background after years of being on his own or part of a split family . |
| 7 | He looked at her with his piercing stare , and Grainne , who had begun to understand a little of the Castle 's strangeness , said tentatively , ‘ The happiness within is not apparent from without . ’ |
| 8 | He had plenty of tales of what had happened to others , though ; the most gruesome being a double-headed story about an American tourist who had refused to pay a taxi driver 's extortionate rates . |
| 9 | The 15-year-old , who had admitted damaging a classroom at Whinfield School , Darlington , by fire at a previous hearing , was given a 12-month supervision order with £25 costs . |
| 10 | A judge ordered the government to suspend the dismissals , but on Oct. 17 an elite military unit entered the plant on Oct. 17 in an attempt to evict strikers who had attempted to restart a closed blast furnace . |
| 11 | In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable ( crime ) , Ken Oxford ( later to be the chief constable of Merseyside ) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order , when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives , ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know ’ . |
| 12 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 13 | Julia , who had come to understand a little of Allegra Wallington 's character in the short time they had spent together , was as anxious as David to prevent that happening . |
| 14 | Nigger was on leave from the navy and had been impressed as he watched Yanto hit a drunken sailor who had tried to grope a young girl . |
| 15 | In one such session two students who had tried teaching a lesson in tandem , set out their objectives and procedures and tried to evaluate their success in the lesson . |
| 16 | In fact she was following her husband 's wishes that those who had helped create a fortune should now inherit it . |
| 17 | There are many reasons for these laws ; some are obvious , but some are very deep and one level of understanding is that menstruation represents a loss of potential life ; the same applied to a man who had a nocturnal emission , or wet dream , or someone who had helped to prepare a body for burial . |
| 18 | Much to Amiss 's chagrin , his eavesdropping was greatly hampered by a new cleaner , who had arrived to do a serious job on the upstairs kitchen . |
| 19 | Around five o'clock I dashed back to feed the cats and to see the electrician who had arrived to fit a new ceramic hob which Nigel had ordered . |
| 20 | ‘ Looks promising , ’ he agreed , turning to speak to the waiter , who had arrived to brandish a bottle of the red wine which he had so enthusiastically recommended . |
| 21 | The new proposals contained a revised list of the territories the Gruagach were prepared to cede to Reflection in exchange for her daughter but Caspar , who had managed to get a look at these , had told Floy that the Gruagach were only ceding some barren bits of wasteland surrounding the Robemaker 's workshops , the Lake of Dhairbhreach — which nobody in their right minds would want — and a mountain or two . |
| 22 | McAllister had gone out , but only to speak to Rose , who had managed to obtain a new post as a maid-of-all-work , and , her half-day off also being Wednesday , had come to ask McAllister to go up West with her again . |
| 23 | Jean Ping , Minister of Mines , Petroleum , Energy and Water Resources , who had failed to win a seat in elections in September 1990 , was another prominent figure to leave the government , his post going to his former deputy , Hervo Akendengue . |
| 24 | He bowled for 23 overs and looked an old head , certainly not one who had failed to play a single championship match last season . |