Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1954 a fish was retrieved from the lower trachea and right bronchus of a 14 year old boy who had presented with acute severe dyspnoea after swallowing a live fish . |
| 2 | If nothing else , she enjoyed feeling needed ; but sometimes she dreamed with disturbing vividness about the managing director , who had believed in full-length mirrors , bottles of champagne and the importance of taking one 's time . |
| 3 | The crisis-ridden years of 1961–2 had dampened the optimism of those who had hoped for new initiatives to end the Cold War . |
| 4 | Many of the demonstrators were Nepalese who had crossed into southern Bhutan from India . |
| 5 | At least three Pakistani civilians were killed and 15 others injured late on Feb. 5 when Indian border guards opened fire to repel Pakistani demonstrators who had crossed into Indian-administered territory near Jammu ( the predominantly Hindu winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir ) . |
| 6 | Miloš did not have the support of all the Serbian chiefs , especially those , like Dean Matija Nenadović and Petar Moler , who had crossed into Austrian territory with Karadjordje in 1813 to return later to share in Miloš 's success . |
| 7 | Some Romanians claim ( not unreasonably though without evidence ) that Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were diabolists who had arranged for certain black magical and other superstitious figures to be carved in the decorations of the Casa Republicii or hidden in the overall design and visible only to other satanic initiates of the occult . |
| 8 | Ordinary soldiers , who had enlisted with equal patriotic fervour , took comfort in simple but pungent humour , typified by Bruce Barinsfather 's cartoon showing ‘ Old Bill ’ , a war veteran , taking refuge in a shell hole and remarking to a young recruit , ‘ Well , if you knows of a better ‘ ole , go to it . ’ |
| 9 | Fr Antony S Kirupakaran , the Director of Santhome Communications Centre and a member of WACC , welcomed film and television professionals who had gathered from different parts of India to attend the festival . |
| 10 | The radio also cited " press sources " as saying that Mohammad Rabah al-Tawil , who had served as Interior Minister under Atasi , had also been released . |
| 11 | The following day Wilfried Martens , who had served as Prime Minister of different coalitions since December 1981 , resigned . |
| 12 | On the other hand the new Deputy Prime Minister in charge of finance and the economy , Boris Fedorov , Russia 's representative at the World Bank , was a radical reformer who had served as Russian Finance Minister in 1990 . |
| 13 | The appointment of Kang , 67 , a Moscow-trained economic technocrat who had served as Premier from 1984 to 1986 , was widely interpreted as indicative of Kim Il Sung 's recognition of the urgent need to reform the country 's highly centralized and largely moribund economy . |
| 14 | Among them was Abdelaziz Bouteflika , who had served as Foreign Minister for 16 years , Belaid Abdessalam , a former Energy Minister who had publicly criticized Chadli 's energy policy , and Kasdi Merbah , the previous Prime Minister . |
| 15 | Some of their careers will be considered in later chapters , but they were not essentially different from those Angevin officers , such as Robert of Thornham , who had served as seneschal of Poitou and Gascony during the crisis of 1202–4 . |
| 16 | In its first announcement since starting investigations into 25 politicians in late February , the Asset Verification Committee ( AVC , a military-appointed anti-corruption body ) named four ministers who had served under ousted Premier Chatichai Choonhaven as being " unusually wealthy " . |
| 17 | Walsh was a man who had surfaced in public life before . |
| 18 | Nicola 's husband was after all , thought Dexter , the second suspect they had seen that day who had decided to dry-clean the clothes worn at the farewell party . |
| 19 | Those who had heard about major items of foreign news — such as the Amin coup in Uganda , the deaths of Nasser in Egypt and Nkrumah in Ghana , or the proposed resumption of British arms sales in South Africa — had for the most part received the news from the radio . |
| 20 | Bill , who had heard with great pleasure many of the greats including Menuhin , Beecham , Barbirolli during his Newcastle days , went . |
| 21 | The pumping was said to be done by Germans , faultlessly disguised as British officers , or even , it had been whispered , by genuine British officers who had fallen for German propaganda . |
| 22 | It was in the summer of 1959 that a man with untidy hair , a crumpled suit and pens clipped to his outside breast pocket , looking like a schoolmaster who had fallen on hard times , boarded a plane at London Airport for East Berlin . |
| 23 | She was not impressed when her spouse informed her there was a member of the gentry below , for the only visitors of that sort to frequent her humble hostelry were those who had fallen on evil times . |
| 24 | They would be coming back to education , however , to build upon the qualifications they had already begun to acquire , and would feel at least equal , if not superior in some respects , to their peers who had remained in full-time education . |
| 25 | Again this provides a strong contrast with the first Whigs , who had pressed for frequent Parliamentary elections . |
| 26 | This last-minute addition went some way to satisfying the psychiatric lobby who had pressed for continuing health authority control . |
| 27 | Arafat 's stance of " positive neutrality " had been criticized by more militant leaders , who had pressed for military support for Iraq and the opening of a " second front " against Israel in Lebanon or the occupied territories . |
| 28 | There was none of this nonsense when The Granada 500 , a group of Gallup-picked electors who had travelled from marginal Bolton to reach London 's Grosvenor House Hotel on Monday for World in Action ( ITV ) . |
| 29 | My father was therefore anxious to travel to Nairobi and discuss with the Governor measures to prevent these raids , as well as the possibility of delimiting the frontier and finding an answer to the demand by the Abyssinian Government for the return of the Boran and Gabbra tribesmen who had migrated in large numbers into East Africa after Menelik 's conquest of their homelands . |
| 30 | At this time , the Christian factions within the Caliphates ( ex-slaves and captives who had risen to high office under Al-Mansur ) requested help from the Court of Castile . |