Example sentences of "who had [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two weeks with no sign of improvement , a friend told me of an excellent new rheumatologist who had just come to work in Chester . |
| 2 | She turned her head towards the servant who had just hurried to let him in to the audience-chamber , and put out an imperious hand to arrest his attention . |
| 3 | Laidlaw , who had also managed to untie his hands , tackled the second Arab . |
| 4 | The hapless governor , who had vainly tried to uphold the sultan 's authority , was beheaded by the janissaries in 1801 . |
| 5 | You may have to face up to a display of feelings of hurt or rejection ; but if your parent is a naturally unselfish person ( and not mentally impaired ) who had simply failed to realise your need for this degree of privacy and emotional ‘ living-space ’ , she will probably be only too anxious to co-operate . |
| 6 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 7 | He looked resentful and slightly embarrassed , like an elderly relative who had grudgingly agreed to pose in order to keep the peace at a Christmas party . |
| 8 | In May 1989 Denzil Douglas , 36 , Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly , was elected leader of the opposition St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party ( SKLP ) after the resignation of Lee Moore , who had again failed to win a seat in the general election held on March 21 . |
| 9 | She was a most untouchable woman ; Roland , who had desperately decided to gamble on showing her the xeroxes of the letters who wanted secrecy and privacy , was forced to lean forward in a kind of pseudo-intimacy and speak low . |
| 10 | People who had been convicted of criminal offences , including drunkenness , or people who had habitually failed to work , were not to be supported from state resources . |
| 11 | The indictment ended months of secret negotiations between Weinberger 's lawyers and the prosecution team , who had reportedly sought to persuade the former Defence Secretary to plead guilty to a misdemeanour and to provide evidence concerning Reagan 's role in the cover-up of the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 12 | Abdelaziz Meziane , hitherto Secretary-General of the Public Works Department , was appointed Agriculture and Land Reform Minister on Nov. 17 , replacing Osman Demnati , who had reportedly asked to stand down . |
| 13 | Many with whom she had shared the screen for a brief while , people whom she had revered , who had even seemed to define life — such as Akhmatova and Pasternak and Vysotsky — had already slipped out of the plot , and the film churned on as if they had never been . |
| 14 | This option was given to working wives in 1948 and withdrawn in 1978 but women who had already chosen to pay the reduced rate were allowed to continue , provided they did not take more than a two-year break from employment after 1978 . |
| 15 | Henri 's unexpected death changed the political circumstances , but left the need to act unaltered ; for the accession of Francis and Mary opened the way for the dominance of Mary 's uncles of Guise : the duke , and the cardinal who had already tried to teach Mary a statecraft which left no room for indifference to Scotland . |
| 16 | The snow in June was a revelation which seemed to astonish and dismay some girls in bikini-tops with a cold-box full of beer and a shoulder bag full of Jackie Collins novels , who had clearly hoped to picnic at the top . |
| 17 | The new British prime minister , Sir Anthony Eden , who had finally managed to take over the reins of power from Churchill only in 1955 , was determined to try to moderate the hostility between Britain and her former wartime ally after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 . |
| 18 | Then started the discussion about where to store it until the inevitable happened , during the course of which the doorbell rang and an elderly neighbour was revealed who had kindly called to introduce himself and to ask if there was anything he could do to help me , as he had heard my husband was ill in hospital . |
| 19 | It was certainly good to read that so many people had never felt healthier or had more energy ; and I was gratified to hear from those who had previously attempted to diet but without success that this diet had worked for them . |
| 20 | These ideas were informed by a paper which had already been produced by an active member of the local Mencap group , who had previously tried to generate the debate within the Community Health Service through the Mencap committee . |
| 21 | The other irritant was the discovery by hundreds of English-speaking Quebeckers , who had courageously chosen to send their children to schools where the teaching is in French , that they had thereby deprived their grandchildren of the right to be taught in English if they wished . |
| 22 | The site belonged to a timber merchant who had consistently refused to put in adequate sanitation and drainage , finding it cheaper to pay the fines imposed instead . |
| 23 | Meanwhile Scheer , who had now decided to reduce the gap between the two German fleets to a mere 32km/20mls , would be close behind and in position also to strike at the outnumbered Beatty . |
| 24 | The decision was crucial to those Britons who had now resolved to take up arms against Rome if necessary , but for the Druids it was now simply a matter of life or death . |
| 25 | But it would not do to show any emotion before the giants , who had all gathered to see Floy and Snodgrass off , or before Balor , who was waiting in high good humour at the unexpected excitement of a journey to the Fire Court . |
| 26 | She stared at the people in the pool , who had all seemed to respond to the whistle and were looking at someone who stood at the poolside , someone obscured from Rachel 's vision by the attendant 's tall chair . |
| 27 | His earlier association with Vane ( who had actually tried to resist being replaced by his own deputy ) did not prevent Hutchinson from remaining in office under the Cromwellian Protectorate . |
| 28 | According to 's account there was quite a lot of abuse by the Party members who had actually managed to blackmail and embroil different peasants or |
| 29 | Those who had initially wanted to go on looking after the dementia sufferer at home ( nine carers ) were also mainly content with the institutional care arrangement . |
| 30 | We are working within a straight jacket imposed by central government , but our choice was that budget , for all its faults in totality , for the fact that it was half a million less than it could be , and the budget put forward by the Labour party who had totally refused to negotiate on their budget , and therefore we ought to look at that budget in detail to see what was on offer , because it was n't very pretty . |