Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 32 | I once met an aged man who had waged a single-handed crusade to get the Fellowship to change its official line that Dr Manette 's house ( A Tale of Two Cities ) is based on the old Carlisle House , Soho Square , in favour of No 1 Greek St. He said he felt prouder than if he had won the Nobel prize on the day they admitted they were in error . |
| 33 | His mother died in 1847 and in 1851 his father married Nancy Inman , who had run a successful school near Birkenhead . |
| 34 | Against her yielding flesh she could feel his heart thundering like a man who had run a marathon . |
| 35 | The Minister of Labour , Ernest Bevin , received a message which he had decoded for him in a Leeds hotel by Albert Heal , a trade union leader who had run a pre-war escape route for German socialists that still had watertight communications . |
| 36 | Boswell had two fears for the sociability of their stay at Cawdor : that his eminent companion might quarrel with their host who had revealed a penchant for speaking ‘ slightingly of the lower English clergy ’ , and that ‘ a whole evening at Calder-manse might be heavy ’ . |
| 37 | She would rather die of starvation , or sunburn , than face Piers Morrison , who had revealed a side to her which she had never even suspected existed . |
| 38 | In that case it was held that a journalist lacked standing for an order ( of mandamus ) that the chair of the justices should reveal the names of the magistrates who had heard a particular case , but that he did have standing for a declaration that a policy of not disclosing the names of justices who heard certain types of cases was contrary to the public interest and unlawful . |
| 39 | ‘ The Missus ’ was about as inappropriate a soubriquet for Onyx Muggeridge as could be imagined , and Mike Pumfrey , who had heard a few scraps about her already , registered this . |
| 40 | Many of the excursions I made with Wendy Anderson who had become a close friend . |
| 41 | It fell to Joseph Franklin , the Rochdale Manager , to succeed a man who had become a legend in his time , but whose legacy was not an easy one . |
| 42 | He was accompanied by his Secretary , Dr. David Buxton , formerly headmaster at the Liverpool Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , who had become a convert to oral methods . |
| 43 | A few years ago , he said , he met an old friend who had become a policeman . |
| 44 | Smart had always attracted friends , and they served him well now , securing him the necessary recommendation to St Luke 's by a bookseller , perhaps a connection of Newbery 's , who had become a banker , probably one of the bankers who formed a majority of the Governors of St Luke 's . |
| 45 | Daniel , who had become a specialist in wild blows of chance , thought he understood some of it . |
| 46 | He was a hero who had become a legend . |
| 47 | Powerful public examples of this were seen in photographs taken after the death of the American president J.F. Kennedy who had become a great folk hero to the American people . |
| 48 | By this time most of the contracts were being negotiated by William James ( later Viscount ) Pirrie [ q.v. ] , who had become a partner in 1874 . |
| 49 | Dawson , who had become a Roman Catholic shortly after going down from Oxford , was an influential member of the group of writers which formed around the new Catholic publishing house of Sheed & Ward from the 1930s . |
| 50 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 51 | The election was banned in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic ( an Azerbaijani enclave separated from Azerbaijan by Armenian land ) by its Supreme Soviet which was headed by Geydar Aliyev , a former CPSU politburo member [ see p. 36592 ] who had become a member of the Azerbaijani People 's Front . |
| 52 | Who had displayed a friendly interest in her . |
| 53 | Venturi was a university teacher , son of a famous father , Adolpho Venturi , who had made a substantial contribution to the publication of documents of Italian art . |
| 54 | His own preferred choice , rather untypically , was Norman Fowler , the Secretary of State for Employment , who had made a ‘ resounding and superb ’ conference speech . |
| 55 | Eamonn McCann , the ‘ unofficial Labour ’ candidate in Londonderry , demanded that the Official Unionist , Robin Chichester-Clark , dismiss those members of his constituency party who had made a deal with the Protestant Unionists or be seen as a puppet on a Paisleyite string . |
| 56 | Sir James Matheson , who had made a fortune in the China trade , bought the Isle of Lewis in 1844 , and at least part of the large sums he spent there ( in addition to famine relief and assistance for emigration ) appears to have been of direct benefit to the islanders . |
| 57 | There was no general ruling on what type of person was best able to carry out these tasks but the two most common groups were : ( a ) the older wife who had a great deal of experience , and ( b ) the young wife who had made a determined effort to acquire as much knowledge and skill as possible . |
| 58 | In 1715 , Thomas Doggett , an Irishman who had made a successful career in London as an actor , theatre manager and author , instituted a race between six young watermen , donating the prize of an ornate jacket , cash in pocket and silver badge to the winner . |
| 59 | Even though there were many writers before Leapor who had made a similar affirmation , not least Katherine Phillips and Mary Astell , it must be recognized that to make such claims was to dispute a widely held belief , based on Aristotelian physiology , that women were by nature soft and therefore inconstant The best known statement of this view of women is Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 60 | The campus was fenny-flat , laid out like a kind of chess-board , redeemed by an imaginative water-gardener who had made a maze of channels and pools , randomly flowing across and around the rectangular grid . |