Example sentences of "who had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a professor at the Collège de France could imagine that anyone ( let alone someone who had exchanged bovine nicknames with a Masai warrior ) was capable of any such omniscience . |
| 2 | It did not belong to the prisoners who had escaped that day . |
| 3 | Briefly Jaq entertained the notion that he was being tested by some Hidden Master of his secret order who had instructed Baal Firenze to send him to Stalinvast to assess whether Jaq possessed supreme courage and insight — enough for him to become a Hidden Master himself . |
| 4 | For a brief moment , it seemed that it was not only the presidents of newly independent Third World countries who had to take special precautions before departing on state visits . |
| 5 | At the next seminar Mr Hargreaves — the same tutor who had referred poor June to me — asked me to stay behind . |
| 6 | Luke , the man who had such a low opinion of her and who had contrived this date presumably to serve his own devious ends , this man who had denied — yes , even earlier tonight — any involvement with Elise … |
| 7 | Immediately , Vesna Jurkic Girardi , Director of the Archaeological Museum in Pula ( today Croatian Minister of Culture ) got the case moving by bringing charges against an unknown person who had excavated archaeological treasure in the region of Barbariga in Istria and smuggled it out of the country . |
| 8 | The overall circuit winner remained Jeremy Bates who had achieved 38 ATP points out of a possible 40 , with Chris Wilkinson placed second with 37 . |
| 9 | ( In the past , Rough Trade acts who had achieved major success like say , Aztec Camera , walked into the more solid foundations of a larger company ) . |
| 10 | There were over 1,000 ‘ transition ’ students , who had achieved advanced credits under the old course , who would have to be assimilated to the new course . |
| 11 | The term " senior dealer " was generally understood to apply only to those who had achieved certain levels of business which would usually take at least three months . |
| 12 | While there was such a difference in the length of time it took to acquire qualifications , many working class youngsters who had achieved good grades in the sixth form tended to view a course in teacher training as marking the limit of their ambitions . |
| 13 | The Boston and Albany Railroad appointed one of its suburban station-masters who had achieved considerable success with his gardens as the company 's superintendent of station gardens . |
| 14 | Any man [ sic ] who had opposed political action had simply been insulted at quarterly meetings , and they could not keep on doing that without feeling the effects . |
| 15 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 16 | Transvaal , who had beaten Western Province the week before , bounced back from the Baa-Baas defeat with a win against Free State the week after . |
| 17 | The younger children , who had completed nine years of school but who were not quite old enough to join the Hechalutz training programme , combined a half-day study syllabus with agricultural work . |
| 18 | Regulations required the direct-grant schools to set aside , without fees , 25 per cent of their places for pupils who had completed two years in an elementary school . |
| 19 | He said that licensing justices at Flint , Mold and Hawarden were endeavouring to only grant licences to experienced people and those who had completed various licensing training courses and had passed the British Institute of Inn Keeping examination . |
| 20 | However the limited numbers of Access students who had completed higher education courses makes it difficult to draw any strong generalisable conclusions . |
| 21 | Sharman returned to earth on May 26 with the Soviet cosmonauts Musa Manarov and Viktor Afanásiev , who had completed six months aboard the Mir space station . |
| 22 | November 1985 saw the retirement of Mr. Joe Blackshaw , who had completed 20 years as Caretaker , having been the groundsman for the previous 20 . |
| 23 | Patients who had repeated 24 hours pH monitoring at the second stage of the study were still taking omeprazole 40 mg/day but all other drugs were withheld for at least 48 hours beforehand . |
| 24 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher cited two different routes : a recommendation of a consultancy from a referral source , i.e. an executive who has come into contact with the headhunter on a previous assignment ; and by direct experience of a particular search firm from the user point of view from a Kingfisher executive who had employed that firm on a previous occasion , before he worked for Kingfisher . |
| 25 | Turner , 37 , was a black graduate of Harvard law school who had served two terms in the state legislature . |
| 26 | About 400 sick conscripts were discharged ( this having been one of the demonstrators ' demands ) , as were those who had served 18 months of their two-year service . |
| 27 | James Christie , one of the leading figures in the town council of Stirling , had a son in the navy named Francis Christie , who had served six years as a midshipman in the West Indies , and had confidence in his ability to pass the examination for lieutenant . |
| 28 | When I went overseas I had graduated from the " Pat and Giggle " stage and could join those who had served several years in Mespot . |
| 29 | Another key job , Features Editor — or Assistant Editor ( Features ) in NoS -speak — had been filled by Polly Pattullo , who had served more years than she cares to remember on the Observer colour supplement before wilting under its increasing consumer bias . |
| 30 | On 13th September , the Nez Perce scouts flourished their red blankets to warn of the approach of Sturgis , who had marched sixty miles the previous day . |