Example sentences of "who had find " in BNC.

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1 ‘ What would you know ? ’ demanded Thomas , the under-footman , jealous that it had been she who had found the body when she went into the bedroom with the morning tray of tea and biscuits .
2 The actions were taken to prevent thousands more emigrants jumping on to a series of trains bound for the West , which last night began carrying out 11,000 East Germans who had found sanctuary in Prague .
3 Kohl , who had found time in his busy schedule to make the 360-mile journey from Bonn to meet Waldheim , excused himself after an opulent lunch and rushed back to his Rhineland base before Waldheim was awarded the chain of honour of the Peutinger Collegium .
4 Plain as a pikestaff , really , even prominent front teeth ; yet , he had been unbearable until he got her ; and now , as Jim himself said , he felt like a lame dog who had found a wonderful home .
5 She was a beautiful woman who had found him attractive , or at least pretended to do so .
6 ‘ Well if it eats half as well as a salmon , I shall be 'appy , ’ grinned Lofty , subtly reminding the others that it was he who had found the fish .
7 He comforted himself with the fleeting thought that at least he had met Sir James Selkirk , who had found Alexander III 's corpse , and wryly concluded he would question him if the opportunity presented itself .
8 On the night the piece was shown in August 1990 , and the following day , Thames Television ran a Help Line staffed by experienced money advisers for viewers who had found themselves in the same situation as Sue and Tony .
9 A message arrived from a local farmer who had found and secured it until it could be reclaimed .
10 She gave examples of men and women rejected by family and friends who had found acceptance and love and friendship in the church .
11 Recognising that as movement caused him to return to his normal self , he would soon realise that it was not Elizabeth who had found him , Sarah took one last chance .
12 He did not turn up to the funeral when his friend died , and for me this was sadder than the loss of the vicar who had found peace and hope before he died .
13 For the little boy who had found a family could not begin to understand the anguish he had unwittingly caused to the family who had lost a little boy …
14 We were amazed , however , at the number of people who had found out on the grapevine !
15 How many times had Tabitha heard , in casual conversation in some dorm , some station bar , from pilots who had found their craft taking a route they had never intended , never charted ?
16 But now she knew the names of the victims , she knew who had found them , she knew that the door had been unlocked , she knew how they had died , although surely he had n't mentioned the slitting of throats .
17 The kitchen was suddenly full of men from the mountain rescue team of the Guardia Civil , and messages were relayed from the mountaineers who had found the corpse .
18 A vital clue in this respect was the attitude of the Bohemians and those other refugees from the middle-class world who had found music-hall and vaudeville such an exciting diversion .
19 Yet the sobbing of the unfortunate women who had found lice in their hair had been easier to endure than the malicious pleasure of those who had found none .
20 Yet the sobbing of the unfortunate women who had found lice in their hair had been easier to endure than the malicious pleasure of those who had found none .
21 Men who had found him unsufferable a year or two ago began to see his abilities or his charm .
22 All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists .
23 A special analysis of this showed that a quarter of all people entering unemployment in May 1980 who had found a job within 10 months had taken one which they knew to be temporary .
24 The other occupants of the boat were a Marine sergeant and one of the soldiers who had found her at the village .
25 Here biblical images of ‘ rebellion ’ and ‘ holy war ’ were fused with recent experiences of anti-slavery and republican struggle to forge a discourse of political representation for women — the enslaved women who had found a voice , a point of identification in one of themselves .
26 ‘ I do n't see anything in Finn , ’ said Lydia , who had found Finn 's terrible reputation one of his greatest attractions .
27 Fenella , who had found Tara a place of breathtaking beauty and who would have very much liked to explore it , saw how it gleamed gently against the night and seemed to have some inner radiance of its own .
28 DeVore who had found him his first , important contacts in City America .
29 The second item of research was that undertaken by Morrison and MacIntyre ( 1969 , also quoted in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) who had found that ‘ changes in sensitivity towards pupil/ teacher relationships developed during initial training were reversed as a result of full time teaching within a relatively short time ’ .
30 The fourth sister , the one who had found the child in a basket on the banks of the river , and insisted on adopting him , had married Burraburiash of Babylon and long since left the Black Land .
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