Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others present included Lord David Cecil , who had lately come back to Oxford to teach English Literature at New College , and Adam Fox , the college chaplain . |
| 2 | A volunteer who had lately returned from China where she had seen another aspect of the refugee problem spent her first evening at Dovercourt simply observing the children . |
| 3 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 4 | When the comm blinked into life , I saw face that I vaguely recognized — a Famlio enforcer named Pulvidon , who had lately been rising rapidly through the ranks . |
| 5 | In 1323 the appointment of these professional wine-brokers by the city 's municipal authorities was opposed by the archbishop , who had traditionally held a vested interest in the local winemaking from which they derived an income . |
| 6 | Not only in large population centres but also in the countryside and small towns , those who had traditionally exercised power found themselves confronted , whether in newly constituted local councils or in the workplace , with a more open and popular style of politics and a more assertive lower class . |
| 7 | The disloyal Duke , who had frequently been rebellious , was exiled to the Neustrian monastery of Jumieges . |
| 8 | Pointless , that is , to all but Richter , who had thereby acquired substantial financial support and much publicity and local kudos . |
| 9 | The horse , who had steadily been moving along in a quiet way , gave a strange little leap and she realised she had inadvertently dug her heels into his side . |
| 10 | Anthony was dead … her brother Anthony who had alternately teased and comforted her was lying somewhere dead , never to come home again . |
| 11 | The fact that the project ultimately failed was not the fault of the process teams , who had successfully made the rocket fuel despite all the handicaps . |
| 12 | They were mostly crews who had successfully completed one tour of operations ( 30 missions ) , so they were not only skilful but also lucky . |
| 13 | They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course . |
| 14 | And Senator Eagleton , who had successfully brought in a reclassification amendment so that amphetamine would be more tightly controlled , stated , when he saw the amendment subsequently overturned : ‘ when the chips are down , the power of the drug companies was simply more compelling than any appeal to the public welfare ’ ( p. 53 ) . |
| 15 | Henry of Lancaster , Earl Thomas 's brother and heir who had successfully petitioned for the restoration of the earldom of Leicester in 1324 , now sought a reversal of the sentence on his brother and the restoration of his other lands and honours . |
| 16 | Wheeler , who was junior to them both , who had contrived to have the best set of rooms in the office and who had successfully requested both men to wait on him , cleared his throat to announce that he was ready to start the discussion . |
| 17 | ‘ Certificates issued ’ refers to the number of RETs issued to candidates who had successfully completed at least one module during the session . |
| 18 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |
| 19 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 20 | And in 1913 we have Pound writing of Yeats , who had just published ‘ The Grey Rock ’ , that the latter is ‘ very fine , but his syntax is getting obscurer than Browning 's ’ , then confessing : ‘ I wonder which is worse , to die in the aromatic subtlety of a disappearing cadence ( à la ME ) or to stodge one 's nobility into an incomprehensible narrative , à la The Eagle ’ . |
| 21 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 22 | The Israeli Foreign Minister , Moshe Arens , of Likud , who had just returned from America , detailed the proposal of the US Secretary of State , James Baker , for three-way consultations on the composition of the Palestinian delegation . |
| 23 | The Scottish stand-off , who was among the Lions replacements , was forced to parade , bouquet in hand , from behind one set of posts to the red carpet on the half-wayline as chaperone to Mireille Mathieu , the French songstress who had just rendered all three verses of the Marseillaise ( with the chorus repeated each time ) . |
| 24 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 25 | Another call — sometimes from those who had just sung the Internationale — was : ‘ Freedom — the West ! ’ |
| 26 | While Jackson , who had just returned from filming a television clip , was mildly bemoaning the pressure it had placed on him to be ‘ incredibly entertaining for one minute ’ , his press officer was engaged in ordering him a beer from room service . |
| 27 | I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry . |
| 28 | The author was an Englishman , Dr Farrar , who had just died from typhus . |
| 29 | The ticket collector , who had just had a new perm , thought the girl 's geometrically cut and excessively short hair awful . |
| 30 | Dalglish wore the demeanour of a man who had just discovered the cat had been sick in his slippers . |