Example sentences of "[noun] who had [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mannaia seem to have taken care to propose people who were indeed from the active lineages but who lived in Tazarbu , and were therefore not personally involved in the conflict with Awlad Amira : while insisting on the principle of unrelenting solidarity , they tacitly mitigated the provocation by proposing candidates who had themselves not been active in the dispute . |
| 2 | He was a dear , lively little man with the bluest of blue eyes who had himself became a fanatical Anglophile , devoting his life until well into his eighties to the furtherance of Anglo-German relations ; and I was proud to be asked to give one of the brief tributes to him at his memorial service at the German Embassy . |
| 3 | In Syria , which then included present-day Lebanon , the people were tribes without a country , in many cases the inheritors of great religious schisms , often dissidents who had themselves been drawn to the mountains of Lebanon by the physical protection which the terrain afforded them . |
| 4 | In 1816 Mrs Hawkes , a pious lady who had herself been a convert of Richard Cecil 's , was called to the death-bed of a Mr Vaughan , whose last hours she described in a letter to a friend : |
| 5 | The same answer I have got from several distinguished persons who had themselves had a particular pleasure in planting trees and plants with their own hands . |
| 6 | On 16 May 1364 , however , another army under Bertrand du Guesclin , a Breton who had himself led such troops before entering the king 's service , defeated the Navarrese army , helped by some English , at Cocherel , in south-eastern Normandy . |
| 7 | During the 1967 San Francisco Film Festival , Crawford met Gene Kelly , the song-and-dance maestro who had himself been a hit on the Broadway stage before starring in film musicals such as Singing In the Rain . |
| 8 | Gifford was a former Royalist officer , an educated man who had himself experienced a fierce inward struggle in his puritan conversion . |
| 9 | His congregations were mostly small shopkeepers and artisans who respected him not only as a preacher and writer but as a man who had himself worked with his hands . |
| 10 | Neither the servants nor the king were amused by Pecham 's decree ; nor indeed were some bishops who had themselves risen to the episcopate on a mounting tide of benefices with and without cure of souls , and who were even now rewarding their own diocesan officers with a plurality of cures . |
| 11 | As the winner of both his races this season , Cruising Altitude was fully entitled to start favourite at the weights and he set a course record beating the time of Run For Free in the opener who had himself just broken the previous record . |
| 12 | ‘ But what is countable may not be what counts , ’ lamented one executive who had himself supervised a hundred engineers . |
| 13 | When Dr Friedler injected morphine into the offspring of mouse fathers who had themselves breathed nitrous oxide , the body temperature of the offspring dropped less than was expected . |
| 14 | Nowhere in Eliot 's anthropological reading had he come across an example of a student of primitive civilization who had himself turned cannibal . |
| 15 | He was admitted on 6 May , and remained in the care of Dr William Battie , a distinguished physician and a Cambridge graduate who had himself held the scholarship which Smart held after him . |
| 16 | Prince Albert had inherited the hereditary disease , otosclerosis , from his mother who had herself inherited it from her own mother , Queen Louise of Denmark . |
| 17 | As I understood more about Lebanon I had felt sympathy for them , seen them as victims who had themselves experienced terrible deprivation . |
| 18 | In 1957 , on Sir Anthony Eden 's resignation , the Queen apparently sought and acted upon the advice of Sir Winston Churchill and Lord Salisbury , both elder statesmen of the Conservative Party who had themselves no personal ambitions at stake , and who appeared to have the confidence of their own party . |