Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | ‘ He must have powerful friends , ’ said Georgiades , who had just limped in off the streets ; not injured but footsore . |
| 32 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 33 | He flapped his warrant card in automatic greeting and waved a hand at Catherine who had also got out of the car . |
| 34 | Modigliani sketched a middle-aged couple in evening dress who had probably dropped in to the Rotonde late one night . |
| 35 | I , the only one of his children who had not gone on to the stage , had inherited the famous Breakspear eyes , the Breakspear height , the Breakspear cheekbones , the brooding Breakspear presence that my father had used to break the hearts of unnumbered women . |
| 36 | ‘ She was a normal , sensible girl who had not gone off before and when she was reported missing we always feared this could be the outcome . ’ |
| 37 | They include Dennis and Kathleen Tate , of Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , who were visiting their daughter , but who had not ventured out of her apartment since the troubles began . |
| 38 | Rafiq , for example , who had not changed out of the grubby overalls that he had been wearing on the day of Robert 's interview , seemed to spend most of his time painting the walls of his classroom . |
| 39 | She was delighted at having the chance to work with one of the rock world 's most distinguished performers who had already branched out into the movie business . |
| 40 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 41 | With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway . |
| 42 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 43 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 44 | He was an unhappy personality , who had obviously grown up in the shadow of his father and had decided that the assumption of a totally aggressive demeanour was the only way of maintaining a personality of his own that would be distinct from that of his famous , indeed most famous — parent . |
| 45 | Quigley started to pace up and down the room as the mass murderer , who had now leaped out of bed and on to the window-sill of his hospital suite , announced his intention of travelling the sixteen floors between him and the pavement without the aid of lift or stairs . |
| 46 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 47 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 48 | Leapor also satirizes the intellectual pretensions of a figure in Crumble Hall who can tentatively be identified as the young William Henry Chauncy who had recently gone up to Oxford : |
| 49 | She was the one who had always gone on about what a paragon my father was . |
| 50 | Elaine a retired civil servant who had worked all her life , felt she made a mistake in retiring at the same time as her friend Louise who had always opted out of the cooking and cleaning in favour of gardening and doing the decorating . |
| 51 | Proud and pleased to be playing opposite Frank Donovan who had once stood in for Hayden Coffin . |
| 52 | And talking of detectives , are n't those two gentlemen , who have just come in like Laurel and Hardy , of that ilk ? ’ |
| 53 | Most of them are ex-soldiers , many from the Afghan campaign , who have not settled back into civilian life . |
| 54 | Instead of acquiring fairly smoothly a bigger version of the cosy old federal republic , with its powerful economy and low political profile , they have inherited an unknown country packed with problems and with people who have mostly turned out to be German-speaking strangers . |
| 55 | They 're looking for the womankind who have all gone off with the Romans . |
| 56 | Knighthoods go to the class acts , the Andrew Lloyd Webbers of this world , as well as the dull but self-important people who have merely turned up at their desks in Whitehall for enough years . |
| 57 | Arsenal fans still talk about former Highbury heroes Michael Thomas and David Rocastle , the main men from the Championship-winning team who have now moved on to Liverpool and Leeds . |
| 58 | When Gilda heard what happened , she said , ‘ A man who 's just staggered out of a nasty relationship wants a bloody nursemaid at first , and then he wants to play the field for a bit . |
| 59 | John 's there with his mate Paul , who 's just got back from work . |
| 60 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |