Example sentences of "who had [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It told the story of a man who had searched for happiness on an island like Koraloona , only to be disillusioned , yet unable to tear himself away . |
| 2 | Apologies for those who had to sit on plastic seats . |
| 3 | Darwin was a member of the landed aristocracy who had flirted with theology at Cambridge before becoming a highly respected naturalist . |
| 4 | Many Tories who had flirted with Jacobitism developed second thoughts in 1715 . |
| 5 | None of the reformed drinkers ( five with biopsy proven cirrhosis ) , who had abstained from alcohol for at least two months had raised values . |
| 6 | Although this represented a success for the government , it made more unlikely any early surrender by cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria , who had escaped from prison in July [ see p. 39001 ] . |
| 7 | In 1932 he edited Escapers All , derived from a series of talks given by men who had escaped from prisoner-of-war camps . |
| 8 | They were helped by one-time Allies of the Australians : long-term Portuguese prisoners who had escaped from custody during the summer and now wandered the island in groups of six or more . |
| 9 | The remaining four records were of patients who had presented to neurology departments after 1983 . |
| 10 | The three who had to go to school in the morning went to bed . |
| 11 | But she did n't envy people who had to go to school . |
| 12 | This was partly for ease of administration by the development officers who had to take into account the cost of all the services received by the elderly person when designing a package of care , but primarily because this was a new initiative : by enabling the development officers to take on difficult and complex cases without being unduly restricted by considerations of cost , it was hoped to test the limits to this form of community care . |
| 13 | The sentence over the exemption of the abbey was given by the pope himself in his consistory and Thomas of Marlborough , who had appeared as proctor for the abbey , fainted for joy . |
| 14 | The non-church-goers in the community proved hard to win , and those who had lapsed from church attendance some twenty years previously saw no need to reconsider at their time of life . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They had also been joined here by a number of " White " emigres from outside the USSR , that is to say anti-Communists who had gone into exile during or after the Civil War of 1918–20 and had subsequently lived in various European countries . |
| 17 | In a letter to Archbishop Aethelheard and Ceolwulf , bishop of Lindsey , written 793–6 , Charlemagne asked them to intercede with Offa for certain individuals who had gone into exile with their lord , Hringstan , who had now died . |
| 18 | Before 1781 it had consisted of only eight houses , but in that year the Strutts — who had gone into partnership for a time with the then-needy Arkwright — built the large cotton mill that still stands there . |
| 19 | Richard saw , with reservations , where his duty lay , and put Dreadnought on the market through the agency of an old RNVR friend of his , who had gone into partnership , on coming out of the forces , as an estate agent in Halkin Street . |
| 20 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There was the simple failure to recruit adequate replacements for those who had gone , particularly those who had gone to rugby league . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Being one of the few local boys who had gone to grammar school had given him that extra confidence early in life . |
| 26 | Herbert came from a breeder who had gone on holiday without realising his owl had laid eggs . |
| 27 | Those sentenced to 13 years were Chen Zeming , a 37-year-old economist who had gone on hunger strike on Feb. 7 demanding more time for the preparation of his defence , and Wang Juntao , the 32-year-old editor of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly ( of which Chen had been the publisher ) . |
| 28 | In September soldiers opened fire on political prisoners who had gone on hunger strike in Insein prison ( Yangon ) ; four were killed and many others were injured . |
| 29 | The wren-boys who had gone from house to house on the lorry all day were now scrubbed and combed , playing away cheerfully on raised planks . |
| 30 | Alone of them all , he had been shriven by the Pope — the Bishop would proclaim it yet again — and yet felt no different from the man who had stood on shipboard beneath a sky turned to flame and faced death with no fears and no doubts , for on such a day it was no hardship to die . |