Example sentences of "[noun sg] who had made " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father , ‘ a younger … and illegitimate , though much loved , son of the eccentric 2nd Earl of Kilmoray ’ , served in the First Life Guards and was military attaché in Rome from 1895 to 1901 ; her mother was the daughter of ‘ a Dutch nobleman of ancient lineage who had made a fortune out of East Indian tin ’ . |
| 2 | For the first time in his life , Peter found her pitiful , a tiny figure who had made a cage of her routines and spent her life staring through the bars at the glorious unpredictability of the world outside . |
| 3 | Following the trial Walsh was reported to be considering forcing North and Poindexter to testify before a grand jury in order to determine if there were others within the Reagan administration who had made false statements to Congress but had not yet been charged . |
| 4 | In the nineteenth century , the upper class comprised the traditional landed aristocracy , but it was an aristocracy that had absorbed largely if not wholly the new men of wealth who had made their money out of trade and industry . |
| 5 | President Randy Mueller , the all-American boy who had made it from right here in his little ole home town of Detroit . |
| 6 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 7 | As the lift doors opened and she stepped out into the corridor , it occurred to her that she must strike a very different figure from the wide-eyed girl who had made that first visit . |
| 8 | His wife , Sonia Gandhi , was an Italian-born Christian who had made known her distaste for the political life imposed on her husband ; their son Rahul , 21 , and daughter Priyanka , 19 , were too young even to enter the Lok Sabha . |
| 9 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 10 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 11 | Gosse was a Plymouth Brother , and a marine biologist who had made aquaria popular and who ran seaside field-trip/holidays for those interested in natural history . |
| 12 | Baroness Thatcher described Lord Ridley tonight as a great Englishman who had made an enormous contribution to the country . |
| 13 | There was no general ruling on what type of person was best able to carry out these tasks but the two most common groups were : ( a ) the older wife who had a great deal of experience , and ( b ) the young wife who had made a determined effort to acquire as much knowledge and skill as possible . |
| 14 | And when her maids had got her dressed and done her hair and she had breakfasted by her tall windows overlooking her manicured rose-garden and a green , daisy-starred meadow , she had nothing to alarm her throughout the day but the possibility of a visit from the formidable Mrs Covington-Pym or the awkwardness , as she took her carriage-exercise , of encountering the wife of her dear friend Mr Adolphus Moon who had made himself so very agreeable . |
| 15 | In 1715 , Thomas Doggett , an Irishman who had made a successful career in London as an actor , theatre manager and author , instituted a race between six young watermen , donating the prize of an ornate jacket , cash in pocket and silver badge to the winner . |
| 16 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 17 | I had a sudden flash of memory of one of the most remarkable women I had ever met — Sister Kenny , a woman who had made a great impact on me because of Clare . |
| 18 | The little hard evidence we have of Sybil at this time points to a tough and cheerful woman who had made her deal and stood by it . |
| 19 | She had almost lost interest in the man but felt obsessed with the woman who had made such an impression in such a short time . |
| 20 | The same phrase described the woman who had made it . |
| 21 | A woman who had made the most of what she 'd got , and done her best to be content . |
| 22 | The elderly lay proprietor , Miss Cordelia Claybury , had inherited the madhouse from her father who had made a good living out of the rich and insane . |
| 23 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 24 | The house had been built by a mill owner who had made a comfortable fortune at the woollen mill which straddled the river Pleshey a mile or two west of Lulling . |
| 25 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 26 | He had been awarded £3,000 in damages , and in early 1990 damages were also awarded in out-of-court settlements to 19 other prisoners involved in the 1983 breakout who had made similar claims . |
| 27 | A man who had made his name by his own imagination and energy , not in just one skill but three : as choreographer , as deviser of revues and other shows , as director of a company that he had brought from obscure provincial competence to world-wide acclaim . |
| 28 | Colonel Joshua Murchison had always been a tough unyielding man who had made it quite clear to Julie that he would rather she had been a boy . |
| 29 | In the Club section was a tall and clean-cut young man who had made the flight after connecting from Houston . |
| 30 | Joe smiled tolerantly at the man who had made himself his friend . |