Example sentences of "who had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to an assessment by Jovic , who had cut short a visit to the UN in New York , the conflict between Serbia and Croatia , combined with escalating tensions in Slovenia ( see below ) , presented Yugoslavia with an unprecedented crisis . |
| 2 | If you think it was hard for me , think what it was like for Gary , the sound technician , who had to sit out front in a box , wired up and WATCH the whole thing seven times a week and twice on Saturdays . |
| 3 | One clubs , Wasps , decided to wait until Saturday to make their decision , much to the annoyance of their opponents , Harlequins , who had forked out £1,500 for an overnight stay in a hotel . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Koogan ? ’ she began , remembering the ‘ former army boxing champion ’ who had shooed away the Sun reporter during one of Puddephat 's previous sallies into the public print . |
| 5 | They were soon joined by Duncan Curr , member of Dublin Street Baptist Church and Chairman of Christian Aid/CEEC , who had bicycled in from Juniper Green – and eventually , ny me . |
| 6 | ‘ Colly-wobbles more like ! ’ groaned the Mate , who had eaten too much lobster too fast . |
| 7 | It was warm over here by the fire and there was an unpleasant stench of stale giant and the surreptitious breaking of wind from Goll the Gorm who had eaten too much onion broth again , but these things would have to be overlooked . |
| 8 | In the meantime the women 's liberation movement was changing rapidly ; expanding , feminists were becoming active in a whole range of trade union activities , setting up women 's centres , refuges for battered wives , all kinds of research , discussion … the group , although it continued to meet , give or take a member or two , for a further four years , was a friendship , a support group of women who had struggled through to political consciousness together , and whose own political allegiances sparked off in many directions : a gay commune , further teaching , trade union organising , membership of one of the numerous revolutionary left-wing groupings which flourished in the seventies , involved in producing feminist journals . |
| 9 | There was no comparison with the player who had struggled valiantly but with little success against Tyrone in both last season 's league and championship . |
| 10 | On the one hand lay those who had trained in or followed the European tradition of independence and free investigative journalism ; on the other lay a tradition that was also important and which has perhaps been the more lasting . |
| 11 | This was the same machine who had computed so many of the calculations involved in designing his daughter . |
| 12 | For the French , who had to go inland to trade in furs at all , pushing on to the west was a matter of development by easy stages . |
| 13 | And John Kelly , who had to go off with hamstring trouble , is also out of tonight 's match . |
| 14 | They were chiefly used by women but also by doctors and clergymen who had to go out in all weathers . |
| 15 | Any woman who had to go further than this and shoulder the burden of full-time work in addition to her domestic duties was often pitied by other married women . |
| 16 | Later I understood why our national hero was so unpopular : he was the Tory minister who had called out the troops against the miners in the 1920s , an action much more pertinent in our mining town than the defeat of Hitler . |
| 17 | Vos explains Abbey National 's rationale : ‘ We simply wanted to assist those customers who had to take out larger loans and therefore had higher repayments . ’ |
| 18 | Dustin 's buddy , the little-known Gene Hackman , who had appeared briefly in three previous films , was cast as her father , and William Daniels and Elizabeth Wilson were to play Mr and Mrs Braddock , the graduate 's parents . |
| 19 | At that same moment , however , Travis , who had appeared equally dumbstruck , seemed to come to and realise that he could no longer continue to speak openly of his love or his problems . |
| 20 | But now might it not be wise to wait a few days , and examine the possibilities suggested by this magnate who had appeared so providentially ? |
| 21 | What was she like , this woman who had affected not only Silas , but also Aunt Bertha ? |
| 22 | One target was her mum Carol — now accused of being the archetypal show business mother who had pushed both Kylie and Dannii into the limelight . |
| 23 | And when it was so deep I could n't see the bottom , Old Bolton 's prize sow , you know the one who had borne so many litters , there was no space atween her belly and the ground . |
| 24 | Behind the gothic-arch pigeon hole , counting out change , she saw the man in boots , the man who had hung about at Faith 's funeral . |
| 25 | But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral . |
| 26 | So Adam slipped out of Castell Coch at dusk , and himself carried the word to Owen in his camp in the woods overlooking Cegidfa ; and a beggar who had hung about the gates for some days and been fed from the kitchens went after him every step of the way . |
| 27 | There was sadness at the absence of Steffi Graf , who had to return home without playing because , within days of recovering from the flu that had disrupted her appearance at the Hopman Cup , she went down with German measles . |
| 28 | As late as 1950 , 10 per cent of a nation-wide opinion survey sample in West Germany regarded Hitler as the statesman who had achieved most for Germany — second only to Bismarck . |
| 29 | In people who had achieved entirely normal linguistic skills , brain damage can reduce or even abolish such skills . |
| 30 | A Ven Gajdusek , she swiftly realised , who had recognised not only the Skoda but its occupants too , and , from the look of fury on his face , was not very pleased to see any of them . |