Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | They included Nai Khin Maung , who had served as a member of the central executive committee of the Mon National League for Democracy , held since October 1991 . |
| 32 | Anthony Lake , 53 , a Massachusetts professor , was a former foreign service officer and State Department policy planning chief , who had served as a key foreign affairs adviser to Clinton during the presidential election campaign . |
| 33 | One policeman from an area outside Easton once stated that he had ‘ sort of fixed it ’ for a lorry driver who had run over a lady 's leg because ‘ the lady was n't very nice but the lorry driver was dead on ’ ( FN 22/2/87 , p. 1 ) . |
| 34 | Caroline who had moved to a new area was asked by a neighbour to join a committee planning the local summer carnival . |
| 35 | The rest crowded around de Raimes , who had staggered to a chair . |
| 36 | She got told off for being late , but it was n't until the next day that Sally 's parents were phoned by the school who had heard about a gang of young people being at the hospital the previous night . |
| 37 | Firemen helped ambulance staff lower a workman who had fallen on a roof at a housing site at Ash Green , Coulby Newham , Middlesbrough . |
| 38 | Paige , who had remained in a shocked silence as revelation had poured on revelation , rediscovered her voice . |
| 39 | He left the room and Newman swung round to face Monica who had remained like a piece of the furniture during the whole time since he 'd arrived . |
| 40 | The Section became engrossed in the preparations for Bretton Woods and the founding of the IMF , and the Labour politicians who had pressed for a declaration of post-war policy were getting ready to fight the next general election . |
| 41 | She looked exactly how she had wanted to look , like a woman who had dressed for a man , so why did she feel so unsure of herself now ? |
| 42 | The watchers thought that the Silver Birches would certainly be a bit wild and probably without any moral sense at all and Clumhach thought he must remember to tell everyone about his great uncle who had succumbed to a Silver Birch one scandalous afternoon . |
| 43 | A man might be fined , in which case it was usual for him to be ordered to make payment to the person or persons who had suffered as a result of his crime . |
| 44 | The money that er we raised in the Soviet Union was intended for the families of miners who had suffered as a result of the strike . |
| 45 | He reminded her of his father , who had suffered from a lung disease . |
| 46 | She felt lost , that her youth had gone , been sucked away by that vain and stupid old woman who had become enamoured of the young boy who had turned into a smooth-talking man . |
| 47 | A young blonde woman who had tripped against a Sellsword was shoved by him and sent flying across the roadway . |
| 48 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |
| 49 | Cranston , who had stopped at a local tavern to refill his miraculous wineskin , was full of chatter and speculation . |
| 50 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 51 | She had danced with a man who had danced with a girl , who had danced with the Prince of Wales . |
| 52 | It was he himself who had insisted upon a brisk pace and now all he wanted was to dismount and stretch his legs . |
| 53 | After the Second World War , for example , the photographer Alexander Liberman decided to visit the studios of artists who had contributed to a century of painting in France , painters and sculptors closely connected with the School of Paris . |
| 54 | Booth , who had played in a reserve match 24 hours earlier to prove his fitness , scored with two headers to conclude a remarkable night . |
| 55 | Compare this with a ‘ puzzle ’ structure used by the same authors with a similar age group of children who had asked for a ‘ horror mystery ’ drama . |
| 56 | Diane exchanged a couple of words and a smile with a young man who had emerged from a side door carrying a clipboard and what looked like a litre bottle of clear water . |
| 57 | Lydia had always collected curious specimens for her parties , frequently foreign : South Africans who could tell her what it was really like over there , Nigerians in brilliant robes , an Asian boy with almond eyes who had stayed for a month until Gerald heard the scurrilous talk and kicked him out . |
| 58 | Marx and Engels , like all their contemporaries , including anthropologists and archaeologists and Morgan in particular , felt that information gained about contemporary peoples whose life depended on a simple technology was valid for understanding the social institutions of prehistoric populations who had relied on a similar technology . |
| 59 | For Hardy , who had written in a letter to Thomas Macquoid , ‘ I am glad you like Tess — though I have not been able to put on paper all that she is , or was , to me ’ , it was ‘ the beginning of the end of his career as a novelist ’ . |
| 60 | Without the operation , Laura , who had lived on a diet of liquid protein , would not have survived much longer . |