Example sentences of "who had [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And John Kelly , who had to go off with hamstring trouble , is also out of tonight 's match . |
| 7 | They were chiefly used by women but also by doctors and clergymen who had to go out in all weathers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Also in 1943 , in July , Geoffrey Appleyard , who had gone on to help form the 2nd SAS Regiment in the Middle East , was reported missing presumed killed over Sicily where he was supervising an airdrop . |
| 14 | On our first meeting he thought I was a removal man working for Frank and Salome who had gone on to higher things ( mainly higher rates , mortgage repayments , so fourth , so fifth ) . |
| 15 | Brahms took about fifteen years to complete his First Symphony , and when it was first performed in 1876 , he was 43 — an extraordinary late symphonic debut for a composer who had been publicly proclaimed as a genius by Schumann when he was 18 , and who had gone on to justify public expectations with such works as the ‘ German Requiem ’ , which had given him financial security for life . |
| 16 | All the left needed to do was to ensure that the next Labour government was a real alternative , and not led by another tedious old right-winger like Callaghan , who had gone back to his farm blaming the lefties . |
| 17 | He would have liked to telephone Marshal Guarnaccia who had gone back down to Florence but he did n't want to block the line , and in any case the Marshal had said something about going to the prison . |
| 18 | While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard . |
| 19 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 20 | If all the chambers were as long as this , or if they were only used by people who had gone down deep into them , then his search would take months . |
| 21 | She was no longer the mild , gentle creature who had gone down on her knees to implore him to make her his wife , but a sturdy , tight-lipped puritan of a woman who saw duty before all else and who always took care to drum the same principle into her children . |
| 22 | Only Mick , who had gone in ahead of me , looked eagerly over the counter towards the office staff doing their paperwork . |
| 23 | Pearn and the members of his staff had started a monthly publication called Burma Today , giving news brought out by men who had gone in with Wingate , photographs taken by army photographers or by RAF planes on patrol , and first-hand accounts by people smuggled out of occupied Burma or coming out from the growing number of liberated areas . |
| 24 | The alarm was raised by a colleague who had gone out to their van . |
| 25 | It would obtain to the person who had gone out and not to his heirs and successors and it would involve his going out and someone else taking on his land . |
| 26 | Brian Guthrie interviewed Mary , Mavin Shulver ( who had gone along for support ) and some Class members , and the Broadcast went out over the air on the following Saturday . |
| 27 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 28 | At the wedding a host of best wishes were received from the other side of the world where many relatives called Jones still remembered young Carol who had gone off to Australia as a child and was now all grown up and about to get wed . |
| 29 | Throughout our conversation , a loaded Kalashnikov automatic rifle had lain propped against a wall of her living room , left there by a youth who had gone off to drink tea . |
| 30 | This was their eighth win from 10 games and they achieved the result without the likes of Mick Harford , Paul Elliott and Robert Fleck , who had gone off by the time Newton struck . |