Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | who 'd just started working for them and he w he did n't look |
| 2 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 3 | And as I say , if it was done in a very civilized way by people who 'd perhaps learnt to smile or somehow turn this , what must be a minor offence , into a minor occasion , erm I think it , it might actually ease relationships . |
| 4 | When the next deaf mother-to-be booked , she was met by a team of three midwives who felt better equipped to help her . |
| 5 | I pushed by a couple of drunks who had just appeared bearing the same bottle of Hirondelle they 'd been using to get into parties all year and made my way upstairs . |
| 6 | Some of its humour happened to remind him of his friend Mike Nichols , who had just begun making a career directing plays on Broadway with the hit Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park and Murray Schisgal 's Luv . |
| 7 | She thought of the agency folding , of having to give up her flat , of Sebastian , who had devoted his life to his business , paying with divorce as the price of his involvement , of Jenny in Media Research who had just got married and was struggling with a mortgage , or Ben , one of the account executives , whose wife was in hospital awaiting a kidney transplant . |
| 8 | The headmaster , who had just finished dispensing multiracial condescension to Mr Patel and was now turning gratefully to Dr and Mrs Frome , gazed with ill-disguised apprehension in the direction of Mr McWhirter . |
| 9 | As she turned away , Rona , who had just finished serving , came and stood in front of him . |
| 10 | The Hereford , Hay and Brecon Railway was completed by Welsh contractor Thomas Savin — who had just finished building the main line through Welshpool — and opened in stages between 1863 and 1864 . |
| 11 | These were men who had just finished fighting a global war — a war which , it must be remembered , Britain had won — and global habits of mind naturally persisted . |
| 12 | She turned to the stranger who had just finished talking to a mechanic who was now giving her car the once-over . |
| 13 | After two weeks with no sign of improvement , a friend told me of an excellent new rheumatologist who had just come to work in Chester . |
| 14 | She turned her head towards the servant who had just hurried to let him in to the audience-chamber , and put out an imperious hand to arrest his attention . |
| 15 | Laidlaw , who had also managed to untie his hands , tackled the second Arab . |
| 16 | There is good photographic evidence to suggest that Day Comet did in fact finish third , but the Epsom judge that day was the same Charles Robinson who had controversially denied Craganour the Two Thousand Guineas , and he placed Day Comet fifth . |
| 17 | Skin abscesses due to injecting were reported more often by drug users who seroconverted than by controls but the selection of seroconverters who had probably used infected injecting equipment may have biased this result . |
| 18 | The hapless governor , who had vainly tried to uphold the sultan 's authority , was beheaded by the janissaries in 1801 . |
| 19 | You may have to face up to a display of feelings of hurt or rejection ; but if your parent is a naturally unselfish person ( and not mentally impaired ) who had simply failed to realise your need for this degree of privacy and emotional ‘ living-space ’ , she will probably be only too anxious to co-operate . |
| 20 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 21 | He looked resentful and slightly embarrassed , like an elderly relative who had grudgingly agreed to pose in order to keep the peace at a Christmas party . |
| 22 | In May 1989 Denzil Douglas , 36 , Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly , was elected leader of the opposition St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party ( SKLP ) after the resignation of Lee Moore , who had again failed to win a seat in the general election held on March 21 . |
| 23 | This attitude was by no means confined to educated sceptics ; it was probably even more marked among the urban proletariat , who had largely abandoned churchgoing and were alienated from the established Church , which they identified with a repressive economic and social system . |
| 24 | She was a most untouchable woman ; Roland , who had desperately decided to gamble on showing her the xeroxes of the letters who wanted secrecy and privacy , was forced to lean forward in a kind of pseudo-intimacy and speak low . |
| 25 | People who had been convicted of criminal offences , including drunkenness , or people who had habitually failed to work , were not to be supported from state resources . |
| 26 | The indictment ended months of secret negotiations between Weinberger 's lawyers and the prosecution team , who had reportedly sought to persuade the former Defence Secretary to plead guilty to a misdemeanour and to provide evidence concerning Reagan 's role in the cover-up of the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 27 | Abdelaziz Meziane , hitherto Secretary-General of the Public Works Department , was appointed Agriculture and Land Reform Minister on Nov. 17 , replacing Osman Demnati , who had reportedly asked to stand down . |
| 28 | Many with whom she had shared the screen for a brief while , people whom she had revered , who had even seemed to define life — such as Akhmatova and Pasternak and Vysotsky — had already slipped out of the plot , and the film churned on as if they had never been . |
| 29 | Joe , who had n't stopped to put anything on , was wearing only his long pants , his chest and feet bare . |
| 30 | His job was made all the more easier by drivers who had n't bothered to take measures to stop people like him . |