Example sentences of "who had [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She was no longer the ingenue who had wowed audiences on Broadway with New Faces .
2 With him was Brother William de Combort , who had entertained Primaflora so warmly at Rhodes in the belief that she was in Carlotta 's employment .
3 Doris was not only the niece of a past secretary who had contracted TB , but so had both her parents .
4 In July 1904 , he referred to Laura H. , a twelve-month-old child who had contracted measles , and had a very bad attack of broncho-pneumonia ( which was a common complication at that time ) .
5 As Jay Cohen has pointed out , after the promulgation of these two statutes all insolvents who had contracted debts by non-fraudulent means could discharge their liability through personal bankruptcy .
6 According to the Professor , people were virtually living on mountains of asbestos and despite this ‘ gross exposure ’ there was no evidence of people who had contracted mesothelioma , a form of cancer related to asbestos ’ , the Cork Examiner reported .
7 She has recently returned from a journey in Romania to see the conditions of at least 1,000 children under the age of one , who had contracted AIDS through injections with dirty needles or contaminated blood .
8 Leading after day one were Australia 's Greg Norman and Peter Jacobsen from the US , who had shot rounds of 67 .
9 As it happened , of the 5381 children who arrived in the first six months of 1939 , only 113 re-emigrated , and most of those went to join their parents who had escaped Germany by other routes .
10 So I and the few who had escaped illness enjoyed the beautiful summer weather , with no lessons or discipline at all .
11 Some of Lancaster 's supporters who had escaped justice in 1322 were at large committing acts of banditry in the north-west , and a more general change of sentiment perhaps lay behind the petitions in the parliament of February 1324 that the rotting corpses of the rebels who had been hanged should be taken down and given decent burial .
12 It stemmed from the outbreak of Minamata disease among the Japanese who had eaten fish and shellfish containing substantial quantities of organic mercury compounds — found to have originated from the direct discharge of factory effluent .
13 In fact , he 'd been one of two warders who had escorted Derek Bentley from the condemned cell to the hangman on January 281953 .
14 About 1,000 Czechoslovaks gathered to watch and applaud the departure , which had been delayed by crowds of would-be emigrants in East Germany who had jammed railway stations in the hope of hitching rides as the trains passed through .
15 When the offspring of the normoglycaemic mothers were considered separately , there was no significant difference in birth weight between the 22 offspring who were normoglycaemic , the 11 who had impaired glucose tolerance , and the 22 who developed diabetes ( 3.44 ( 0.40 ) , 3.39 ( 0.47 ) , and 3.39 ( 0.63 ) kg , respectively ) .
16 When the offspring of the hyperglycaemic mothers were considered separately , there was no significant difference in birth weight between the 20 offspring who were normoglycaemic , the 21 who had impaired glucose tolerance , and the five who developed diabetes ( 3.59 ( 0.49 ) , 3.47 ( 0.40 ) , 3.74 ( 0.54 ) kg respectively ) .
17 Pandarus , who had instructed Troilus — ‘ You must be witty ’ — seems to have infected the lovers with his fondness for dirty jokes ( in him , perhaps , a sign of impotence or disease ) , and seeing him again they are reminded of this and go up to verse for their protestations of love and fidelity ( 113ff . ) .
18 Afterwards , Angelo Dundee , who had trained Ali from the start and had to be talked into showing up for this one , watched him slumped in the dressing-room , then turned away and rubbed his eyes as certain people tried to convince Ali that he had been robbed and that a fourth title was still possible .
19 Richard Cunningham , a botanist who had been trained at Kew by William Townsend Aiton , elder brother of John Townsend Aiton ( who had trained Gould as a gardener at Windsor Castle ) had been murdered by Aborigines only a short time before Gould 's departure while collecting on an expedition along the Murray River .
20 Meanwhile , a famous singer , much loved in the film world , who had kissed Dubcek , found a paste-up photograph of her and the former leader circulating around Prague .
21 Mullan had had an altercation with a youth who had called Mosley a ‘ Black Bastard ’ .
22 Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again .
23 The experience of other police forces who had granted researchers permission also showed that no great difficulties were created as a result , and allowing research accords with the professionalism which is the core value of senior officers in the RUC .
24 The dozens of squealing girls who had packed Court 13 were ecstatic .
25 There was also a lecture Theatre for people who had packed lunches .
26 In place of the 12,000 who had packed Olympia to hear Mosley , a dozen or twenty people almost equal in number to the entire strength of the National Socialist League — gathered at street corners to heckle and jeer the embittered oratory of William Joyce in his Adolf Hitler mackintosh .
27 Men who had formed associations to go hill-walking , cycling , even mountaineering , clutching pamphlets like Initial Efforts on the Boulder Face , or Coping with Crevices , and spent long days toiling up braes and free-wheeling down glens , now had a wage to earn .
28 Two Iraqis , aged 29 and 49 , were sentenced to death on May 5 for informing on and torturing Kuwaitis who had formed part of the resistance to the Iraqi occupation of 1990-91 .
29 The Belorussian president , Nikolai Dementei , who had expressed support for the coup , resigned on 25 August , and the republican parliament voted shortly afterwards in favour of the ‘ political and economic independence of Belorussia ’ .
30 Byelorussia 's President , Nikolai Dementei , who had expressed support for the coup , resigned on Aug. 25 , and the Supreme Soviet voted to declare " the political and economic independence of Byelorussia " .
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