Example sentences of "who had [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miguel turned to Victoria , who had appeared while the policeman was checking the surgery , and said , ‘ Please find out which apartments those youths are in . |
| 2 | Many families were Ethiopians who had gone as refugees to Somalia to escape the Ogaden war in 1977 and who were now returning . |
| 3 | Maybe Mademoiselle Rabier was the Claudine who had phoned when they were in Paris ? |
| 4 | This project will examine the experiences and characteristics in early adulthood of people who had truanted when at school . |
| 5 | Commenting on the finds in Patio 29 Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the 1973 coup leader who had remained as C.-in -C. of the Army after the return to democratic rule in 1990 , stated that he " congratulated the corpse hunters " and claimed that the burial of more than one body in the same grave showed " great economy " . |
| 6 | Police evidence was sent to the Procurator Fiscal , who had to decide whether there were grounds enough for criminal prosecutions to proceed . |
| 7 | The 138 patients who had recognised a potential condom failure represented only 45% of the 309 who had conceived while using this method . |
| 8 | Yet the liberals of 1812 were involved in the myth of the people who had risen while the aristocracy had remained inert and they were not unaware of the advantages of creating a class of small peasants devoted to the liberal revolution — again an implication of their interest in the French Revolution . |
| 9 | It was presided over by Ernest Ayliffe who had retired as President at the beginning of Congress , but had accepted the honour of becoming one of the BDDA 's first " Grand Councillors " . |
| 10 | Stirling 's own team included two men , Reg Seekings and Johnny Cooper , who had asked if they could be together . |
| 11 | Who had ridden as village queen on a flower-hung cart only the previous week in the procession to celebrate the feast of the Assumption . |
| 12 | Members who had joined since the last annual meeting were Latvia , on Nov. 25 , 1991 , Lithuania , on Dec. 4 , and Kirgizstan , on April 29 , 1992 . |
| 13 | A number of them old , dedicated members of the Party who had joined when Mussolini first came to power — fraternized much too much with the Germans . |
| 14 | ‘ Where 's Oliver ? ’ asked Linda who had grown as tired of hearing Harbury 's troubles as she was of Marilyn Duxbody 's . |
| 15 | The next morning Tom Picton , a former lecturer at the Royal College of Art who had worked as picture editor on the dummy edition , played back the tinny message . |
| 16 | But it had been Mrs McBride who had started as she meant to go on . |
| 17 | For the Church of the fourth century , there would almost certainly have been some rueful and grudging admission that Constantine was a Messiah who had succeeded where Jesus had failed , and that the Messiah as represented by both Constantine and Jesus was indeed a military and political figure — not a god , but a king with a mandate to govern . |
| 18 | Who , they asked each other , was this newcomer , who had succeeded where so many others had failed ? |
| 19 | According to mid-August figures released by the US Coastguard 27,440 out of a total of 37,381 refugees who had fled since the overthrow of Aristide had been repatriated . |
| 20 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 21 | Ma is clearing lunch , and the Monster ( who had proved as immune to holy caravan water as predicted ) , is sprawled on the rug stinking the place out as always . |
| 22 | The judge ordered on an action by the plaintiffs , Waltham Forest London Borough Council , that they should recover possession of 336 , Stocksfield Road , Walthamstow , London , E.17 , on the ground that the defendant did not qualify to succeed within section 87 of the Housing Act 1985 the tenant , Webster Thomas , the defendant 's brother who had died while a secure tenant of the premises as the defendant had not resided at those premises for a period of 12 months ending with his brother 's death . |
| 23 | Benjamin must have been more than a little interested by all the information this sheet of paper contained , principally because he had scarcely known his own father , who had died before he was two years old . |
| 24 | She talked at length , often about people who had died before Anne was born , but she pretended to remember them . |
| 25 | When I started my enquiries into our family history I was told that Mary Kell was two years older than George Webster and that she had previously been engaged to his elder brother who had died before they could marry . |
| 26 | Welch 's second novel , In Youth is Pleasure , recalling a summer holiday at the age of fifteen , was published two years later , and was dedicated to the memory of his mother , who had died when he was eleven . |
| 27 | Leonora Fox was the youngest of three children born rather late to parents who had died when their last-born was still a child . |
| 28 | The momentary weakness had bothered her for weeks afterwards as she worried as to whether she had lost her professionalism along with the opportunity to grill Hugo Varna over the truth about his relationship — and Paula 's — with the man who had died as he lived in a blaze of publicity . |
| 29 | It had to be someone who had come while she was asleep . |
| 30 | Harideo Joshi , who had resigned as Governor of Rajasthan in January 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] , was appointed Governor of Assam and Meghalaya in late april 1989 in place of Bishma Narayan Singh . |