Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally , as a refuge for his invalid son , who had just suffered his first attack of epilepsy . |
| 2 | ‘ Go and see who it is , will you , there 's a duck , ’ requested Constance , who had just made herself comfortable on the swinging seat . |
| 3 | In 1826 she was joined by her sisters-in-law , Sarah and Ann , who had just lost their mother ; the poor relief ‘ Extras ’ list granted them 1s. or 18d. a week for at least the next three years . |
| 4 | I never came across an instance of this , though I encountered a number of individuals who had just killed someone , including a complacent fourteen-year-old near Bilen . |
| 5 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 6 | The guest of honour was Lord Denning , who had just completed his report into the Profumo scandal of that year . |
| 7 | It was demonstrated by the fact that even after her death Sharon Tate was listed among the enemies of one extreme group , along with Lyndon Johnson , Richard Nixon , Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago and the Governor of California , Ronald Reagan who had just instructed his forces of law and order to ‘ take whatever action necessary ’ to quell campus riots . |
| 8 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |
| 9 | She asked for explanations which she received without comment , as if listening to someone who had just incriminated herself . |
| 10 | I 'm told it 's nothing personal ( it 's never anything personal in racing — a fellow who had just put me through the wing at Naas visited me in hospital to tell me it was nothing personal ) , but the end result is the same . |
| 11 | Ticket Inspector Clark , who had just finished his shift , trotted up to the distressed driver , |
| 12 | The newcomer noticed it , declared , ‘ I like hot steam ; it gives me that real sauna feeling ’ , squeezed herself between two naked bodies and at once began to talk about yesterday 's television talk show featuring a famous biologist who had just published his memoirs . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell me , ’ said Miss Fogerty , who had just remembered something . |
| 14 | The rejoicing was not shared by the weary infantrymen who had just fought their way on to it . |
| 15 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |
| 16 | Russ Tamblyn appeared in cowboy boots and a fully grown Afro hairdo , and actor Severn Darden , who had just learned his next job was to play the lead in a revival of Dracula , was going around practising vampire attacks on every female member of the cast . |
| 17 | With the defeat at Brignais avenged , Charles V , who had just succeeded his father as king , could go to his coronation a satisfied man . |
| 18 | It came as no surprise in 1990 when Charlie Nicholas 's name was once again associated with a Celtic team who had just experienced their worst season for years . |
| 19 | His first thought was of the party who had just left him , but unfortunately his cry for help was not heard by them . |
| 20 | ‘ Precisely , ’ he said , giving her the kind of look a great thespian might give an impish soubrette who had just delivered his punchline . |
| 21 | He rang off and I felt a warm glow of appreciation for Fred Workman who had just offered me my first full-time job in journalism . |
| 22 | Jake , by contrast , quite independently of his father , who had also made his fortune in the building industry , had set up as a building contractor on his own . |
| 23 | In April 1946 Otto Grotewohl , the SPD leader in the eastern zone , complied with the Soviet wish to unite his party with the Communists , who had also re-formed themselves in 1945 and were hoping to widen their appeal . |
| 24 | Höchstetter , Daniel Ulstat , and Hans Lonner , came acting as agents for the outwardly prosperous merchant company " David Haug , Hans Langnauer , and Mitverwandte " who had also involved themselves in mining . |
| 25 | After about fifteen seconds he removed-them and turned to Halzman , who had also removed his . |
| 26 | In 1991 the City and Guilds top award in carpentry also went to a woman , who had also started her career at Bristol Women 's Workshop . |
| 27 | It came a week after she buried her mother , who had also shared their home . |
| 28 | One month after Charles 's funeral , wasting little time , his eldest daughter Elizabeth , who had probably tended her father through his final illness and was by then the official occupier of the dwelling house next to his shop , upped and married by licence . |
| 29 | William Hulbert offered Burghley 100 angels if he would get the post of customer at Bristol transferred to J. Dowlie , who had probably bought it from Hulbert ; Henry Goldingham promised £100 for the post of controller of the customs at Ipswich ; and Herbert Croft wrote that Richard Davis was offering the same amount for a judgeship in Wales . |
| 30 | They were smiling , willing , charming , but they looked like a family from a breakfast cereal commercial who had somehow found themselves in the middle of a real occasion . |