Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to an assessment by Jovic , who had cut short a visit to the UN in New York , the conflict between Serbia and Croatia , combined with escalating tensions in Slovenia ( see below ) , presented Yugoslavia with an unprecedented crisis . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Koogan ? ’ she began , remembering the ‘ former army boxing champion ’ who had shooed away the Sun reporter during one of Puddephat 's previous sallies into the public print . |
| 3 | ‘ Colly-wobbles more like ! ’ groaned the Mate , who had eaten too much lobster too fast . |
| 4 | It was warm over here by the fire and there was an unpleasant stench of stale giant and the surreptitious breaking of wind from Goll the Gorm who had eaten too much onion broth again , but these things would have to be overlooked . |
| 5 | There was no comparison with the player who had struggled valiantly but with little success against Tyrone in both last season 's league and championship . |
| 6 | This was the same machine who had computed so many of the calculations involved in designing his daughter . |
| 7 | Dustin 's buddy , the little-known Gene Hackman , who had appeared briefly in three previous films , was cast as her father , and William Daniels and Elizabeth Wilson were to play Mr and Mrs Braddock , the graduate 's parents . |
| 8 | At that same moment , however , Travis , who had appeared equally dumbstruck , seemed to come to and realise that he could no longer continue to speak openly of his love or his problems . |
| 9 | But now might it not be wise to wait a few days , and examine the possibilities suggested by this magnate who had appeared so providentially ? |
| 10 | One target was her mum Carol — now accused of being the archetypal show business mother who had pushed both Kylie and Dannii into the limelight . |
| 11 | And when it was so deep I could n't see the bottom , Old Bolton 's prize sow , you know the one who had borne so many litters , there was no space atween her belly and the ground . |
| 12 | As late as 1950 , 10 per cent of a nation-wide opinion survey sample in West Germany regarded Hitler as the statesman who had achieved most for Germany — second only to Bismarck . |
| 13 | In people who had achieved entirely normal linguistic skills , brain damage can reduce or even abolish such skills . |
| 14 | Very deliberately , and as if it were giving him great pain , the German who had said little began to speak . |
| 15 | To hunt down those who resembled him , yet who had gone astray ? |
| 16 | In Cairo , exhausted by the traumas of recent weeks , she had been concerned not only about the Shah and his morale , but also about their four children who had gone ahead of them to the states . |
| 17 | At Falmouth one sunny day with Valiant , I received a frantic call from our catering officer who had gone ashore with the motor boat on a falling tide . |
| 18 | She called to Hermione and Joanna and all the girls who had gone already along the paths she had rejected , called to them to wait for her and place their steady walking boots on solid earth to catch her . |
| 19 | It upstaged even Mr and Mrs Wilson , who had gone markedly quiet since Maisie entered the field . |
| 20 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 21 | Efforts were made to persuade Jamaica to follow Barbados , and a twenty-one year grant to cover the island 's own expenses was voted in 1683 , but this grant was not large enough to provide any surplus to spend elsewhere and was not much more than a recognition that the government in England was not going to spend its money covering the costs of local government for Englishmen who had gone overseas . |
| 22 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 23 | This belief was fostered by the churches , the floors and walls of which were incised with the records of those who had gone before , but it was expressed positively in the family . |
| 24 | They were halted by a hail of arrows from the English , they failed to break the English positions and each advancing wave of cavalry bore down on those who had gone before , leading to utter confusion and heavy losses . |
| 25 | Steve looked across at Ruth who had gone deathly pale and was watching him with her mouth gaping open . |
| 26 | There was a sense among them , even the innocent ones , of naughty children who had gone too far and had been abandoned by their parents . |
| 27 | At 16 he emigrated to Canada and began work in a small shipyard in Quebec , owned by his uncle , John Black , who had gone there from Irvine a few years earlier . |
| 28 | He was doubling for Immigration who had gone home to babysit while his wife went to the movies with her sister . |
| 29 | Straightening , he turned to Lori , who had gone as white as a sheet , and had backed up to the door like an animal at bay . |
| 30 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |