Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not belong to the prisoners who had escaped that day . |
| 2 | Against the Welsh , Chalmers , who had struggled all last week to overcome shin and thigh knocks , answered his critics in no uncertain manner with some jinking running , especially on the narrow side , and accurate kicking in the gusting wind . |
| 3 | Luke , the man who had such a low opinion of her and who had contrived this date presumably to serve his own devious ends , this man who had denied — yes , even earlier tonight — any involvement with Elise … |
| 4 | Mark drove home along the M1 reflecting that the French and Germans in particular would be pleased to erect monuments to the idealistic young English politician who had said all the things that Britain 's trade competitors wanted to hear . |
| 5 | And why did it tear her apart because it was fitzAlan who had said those terrible things to her ? |
| 6 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 7 | Nobody ever brought the matter up with Eve ; and as for Mossy Rooney , who had replaced some of the window frames and the guttering , it would have been pointless asking him for information . |
| 8 | Every week a detachment of men who had completed all the selection processes , interviews and tests would go off to the 4ème Règiment Étranger at Castelnaudary near Toulouse to start their basic training . |
| 9 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher cited two different routes : a recommendation of a consultancy from a referral source , i.e. an executive who has come into contact with the headhunter on a previous assignment ; and by direct experience of a particular search firm from the user point of view from a Kingfisher executive who had employed that firm on a previous occasion , before he worked for Kingfisher . |
| 10 | When I went overseas I had graduated from the " Pat and Giggle " stage and could join those who had served several years in Mespot . |
| 11 | A particularly vexing category was the " turnover " : the apprentice who had served most of his time but was not yet a journeyman , and who was snapped up by employers to do a man 's work at a boy 's pay . |
| 12 | Another key job , Features Editor — or Assistant Editor ( Features ) in NoS -speak — had been filled by Polly Pattullo , who had served more years than she cares to remember on the Observer colour supplement before wilting under its increasing consumer bias . |
| 13 | American fishkeepers who had maintained this fish had a somewhat different view . |
| 14 | He paid a brief homage to the Gnomes , who had journeyed all the way from the Gallan Mountains to bring their ideas for the new Queen 's Crown Jewels and did not refer to the fact that they were four days late on account of getting lost on the way . |
| 15 | The professional dealing with Stefan 's case felt that his mother , who had generated these ideas herself , had really understood the technique very well . |
| 16 | Snodgrass , who had studied more sketches and impressions of the lost castles and palaces of Earth than he could remember , said he thought that nothing like Tara had ever existed anywhere in any world . |
| 17 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 18 | There was a Being who had made all things and who was to be feared . |
| 19 | The traffic arrangements for the Kumbh mela in 1906 were entrusted to the same officer who had made all the arrangements for the Great Delhi Durbar organized by the Viceroy Curzon in 1904 . |
| 20 | As the lift doors opened and she stepped out into the corridor , it occurred to her that she must strike a very different figure from the wide-eyed girl who had made that first visit . |
| 21 | It was Mr Murray , we understood , who had made such a roaring success of the BBC publications , ‘ The Listener ’ and ‘ Radio Times ’ . |
| 22 | He was the young player who had made such an impression on me during my year on the amateur tour . |
| 23 | The new Burma Army would have a British Inspector-General and two Deputies , one from the PBF and one from the ethnic minorities who had made such an important contribution to harassing the Japanese . |
| 24 | She had barely recognized their cool , urbane general manager in the seedy , vengeful man who had made such wild accusations . |
| 25 | She had almost lost interest in the man but felt obsessed with the woman who had made such an impression in such a short time . |
| 26 | But he was undoubtedly the man who had made such a powerful impact on her in the Piazzale Roma . |
| 27 | Despite its eulogistic tone Oldershaw 's memory seems more credible than E. C. Bentley 's half-humorous , half-invented sketch of Thomas aged sixteen during his first half-year at St. Paul 's : ‘ It was Walker [ Frederick Walker , the High Master ] too , who had made this possible by clearing the ‘ History Eighth ’ , the first recruits to which included my friend Oldershaw and myself , soon to be joined by an exceptionally reserved and quiet boy who usually had in his pocket a rat or so , and a few snakes , which he would shut in his desk with books , and occasionally peep at stealthily — Edward Thomas the poet . ’ |
| 28 | I was not the only one who had made this uncomfortable observation . |
| 29 | The Section took over this work from the Treasury ( who had made some embarrassing errors in their calculation ) and submitted detailed proposals for post-war full employment to a Cabinet committee chaired by Anderson in May 1943 . |
| 30 | She 'd never experienced anything like this in her life before — she 'd never met a man who had made any real , lasting impression on her . |