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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the next seminar Mr Hargreaves — the same tutor who had referred poor June to me — asked me to stay behind . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A mining company managing director recently telephoned a campaigner who had generated anti-mining publicity . |
| 15 | Sadly the beloved eldest brother , Beverley , who had poured cold water on the whole idea of Eva going to Africa , was never to hear of her success . |
| 16 | The older ones among them who had heard similar harangues before had already sensed they were about to experience some harshening of their conditions . |
| 17 | Lord Ashfield remained Chairman and Frank Pick , who had become Managing Director of the Group in March 1928 , became Deputy Chairman . |
| 18 | It was important for the future of the English republic that Frost was succeeded not by his eldest son , who had become assistant secretary and treasurer for the council 's contingencies , but by the candidate of Oliver St John and Oliver Cromwell , John Thurloe [ qq.v . ] . |
| 19 | By taking a peerage he ruined the political career of his elder son , who had become Unionist MP for Plymouth in 1910 and was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father in 1919 , but also created the opportunity for his daughter-in-law , Nancy ( later Viscountess Astor , q.v. ) to win her husband 's seat at a by-election , and thus become the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . |
| 20 | Before their first meeting , Nkrumah called upon Harold Macmillan , who had become prime Minister five months earlier . |
| 21 | Xenofon Zolotas , who had become Prime Minister of an all-party government after an inconclusive general election on Nov. 5 , 1989 [ see pp. 37050-51 ] , announced on Jan. 26 the calling of a further general election . |
| 22 | They could not easily accept a return to old party cries or the need to oppose men who had become close friends . |
| 23 | ‘ Very soon after the campaign of unspeakable suffering had commenced , ’ James Butterworth wrote in 1932 , ‘ those who had laboured long in building up a club saw the once-hooligan juniors , who had become stalwart seniors , whipped away as by magic … |
| 24 | Minna and Brenda are the two heroines in ‘ The Pirate ’ who had become fashionable shorthand reference for rural femininity . |
| 25 | The second deals with the relation of Russia to the rest of the world , and includes the existence of an elite of Russians , exiled by the czar , who had become sophisticated socialists , as well as those aspects of foreign policy which played into the hands of the revolutionaries . |
| 26 | To stage the Exhibition , Prince Albert commissioned the services of Sir Joseph Paxton , who had become head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire , and had acquired a reputation for his effective building of large glass houses . |
| 27 | For Elizabeth — who had flown micro-light aircraft , climbed rock faces , dived in treacherous underwater currents and travelled the world alone — the visit to the remote camp near Sondwana was one adventure too far for which she paid the ultimate price . |
| 28 | He had been awarded £3,000 in damages , and in early 1990 damages were also awarded in out-of-court settlements to 19 other prisoners involved in the 1983 breakout who had made similar claims . |
| 29 | He slides among suspicious groups of heat-seeking , light-shunning nomads , who had made temporary camps up lesser conduits , who milk sweet , pure water from above from the gleaming concrete walls . |
| 30 | The determination or disposal is treated as a transfer of value by the beneficiary and the rate of tax payable is arrived at by reference to the total of it and any previous chargeable transfers by him unless the determination or disposal took place before 10/12/74 when , in implement of the undertaking in the White Paper ( Cmnd 5705 ) that in these circumstances any tax chargeable would be no greater than that which would be due if the trust were an individual who had made chargeable gifts equal to the capital becoming chargeable , the rate is arrived at by reference solely to the total of the determinations or disposals which have taken place in the trust since 25/3/74 , if by so doing the amount of tax payable would be reduced . |