Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AD 360 when Constantius II took his vengeance against the followers of Magnentius , who had challenged the Emperor for the purple and caused Constans to be murdered . |
| 2 | The white stone palais of the governor of Cochin-China was built in the grandiloquent , neoclassical style favoured by those fervently patriotic Frenchmen who had erected the great public buildings of Paris in the late nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Lucian Freud 's compelling ‘ Night Interior ’ ( lot 44 , est. $500–600,000 ) , which was owned by Saatchi , attracted a couple of hesitant bids from Anthony d'Offay , who had exhibited the picture at his gallery in 1972 , but was bought in at $260,000 . |
| 4 | Clearly , the man who had overthrown the Somoza dictatorship ten years earlier , who first killed a man when he was in his mid-teens , and who spent seven years in jail , was getting advice from a higher source . |
| 5 | Jones , challenged early on in the action to surrender , made the subsequently famous reply : ‘ I have not yet begun to fight ! ’ , refusing to lower his equally famous flag , made for the Ranger by the admiring young women of Portsmouth , New Hampshire , who had cut the ‘ stripes ’ from their silk dresses and the ‘ stars ’ from the wedding gown of a naval wife . |
| 6 | The case which had prompted these remarks involved a 13-year-old schoolboy , John Bird from Camden , who had shot an 18-year-old greengrocer 's son in the arm . |
| 7 | In his acceptance speech , Mr. Mates thanked all the East Hampshire District Council staff who had taken part in the count and to all those who had manned the 51 polling stations . |
| 8 | But the efficient-looking woman who had manned the reception desk on Folly 's previous visit was not yet at her post . |
| 9 | At that stage my problem was how to use a restrictive and convoluted Act of Parliament to pursue a policy almost diametrically opposed to what those who had framed the legislation intended . |
| 10 | The administration of vague rules and guidelines effectively removed control of pollution policy from the politicians who had framed the laws , and put a stop to any parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 11 | Why Brunel should have agreed to spare the time to become involved with the competition is not clear , except that his brother-in-law and close friend was Sir Benjamin Hawes , who had framed the War Department 's accommodation schedule . |
| 12 | For while the royal bureaucrats gained the upper hand in fact , the other classes in the community who had upheld the medieval constitutionalism the barons and the free towns , and above all the church — developed secularized versions of natural law . |
| 13 | Bannon was the last of a group of ALP leaders — including Bob Hawke , federal Prime Minister from 1983 to 1991 , and former state premiers Neville Wran , John Cain and Brian Burke — who had revitalized the party in the wake of its 1975 ejection from office . |
| 14 | Barney Moss either did n't know who had staked the seed money … or he was n't telling , and not even the Spanish Inquisition was going to change that state of affairs . |
| 15 | He used to be the crier , but had recently taken over from Fred Harrison who had proclaimed the fair annually for the last thirty years . |
| 16 | The situation that produced it was comparable to that which was to lead to a similar agreement between the returning Dutch and those who had proclaimed the Republic of Indonesia : in both cases neither side was prepared , there and then , for all-out war when the last British forces left Indonesia or when the Chinese armies in Tonkin were finally persuaded to leave . |
| 17 | As recently as two weeks ago sources close to Mr Parkinson ruled out changing the route at this late stage , saying it would revive uncertainty , antagonise people who had escaped the BR route , and cause an unacceptable delay to legislation . |
| 18 | And now , slumped in the rich-smelling old leather of Stanley 's back seat , he felt like a rabbit who had escaped the human cordon . |
| 19 | As he toured the Colony he was introduced to mayors , civic leaders and clergymen , men ‘ with an outlook , who had escaped the ruts of tradition ’ . |
| 20 | The armed guards who had escorted the combatants into the arena retreated through the flush-fitting doors , which they closed and locked behind them . |
| 21 | The shock was greatest for those socialists who had believed the rhetoric of the International . |
| 22 | Betty was so relieved to see Lydia in spirits again that she did n't care at all that it was Beuno who had wrought the transformation . |
| 23 | It was He who had instructed the animals to multiply ; He had given no instructions to the stars . |
| 24 | Confusion about the real cause of the accident was compounded by press allegations that the crew had ignored the advice of air traffic controllers who had instructed the pilot to adopt an alternative flight path , avoiding the over-crowded suburb , to effect an emergency landing at Schiphol . |
| 25 | Stirling may have laid down the principles , but it was Lewes who had trained the men to put them into practice . |
| 26 | Calculating that the kidnappers might use the same initial rendezvous , Zen had informed Bartocci , who had authorized a phone-tap . |
| 27 | In June 1963 , Pope John XXIII , the Pope who had called the second Vatican Council , died . |
| 28 | Since they 'd met he was the one who had been in charge , the one who had called the tune . |
| 29 | The phone-in revealed two more people who had called the police to remove Sure Style salesmen . |
| 30 | Still in the realm of half-backs , the original conclusion from the post-match inquest into who had called the back-row move which led indirectly to that heartbreaking injury to Craig Chalmers — that it had come from half-back — was subsequently rescinded . |