Example sentences of "who had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had had her pregnancy confirmed by the Medical Officer , who had decreed that she must henceforth do no more night duties . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 4 | She was no longer the ingenue who had wowed audiences on Broadway with New Faces . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat . |
| 8 | Former BNP members who had split from the party in July 1988 ( see p. 36558 ) formed the Bangladesh Democratic Party in July 1989 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was Fiver who had stamped and he was now staring intently across the field . |
| 11 | With him was Brother William de Combort , who had entertained Primaflora so warmly at Rhodes in the belief that she was in Carlotta 's employment . |
| 12 | Unlike the kings of Israel who had aspired to the title of ‘ Son of Yahweh , Jesus displayed utter trust in his heavenly Father though the outlook was black as night ; utter obedience to his Father , even though it would take him to a cross ; and utter readiness to suffer — in bloody sweat there and then , and the blood , sweat and hell of crucifixion thereafter . |
| 13 | Following Socrates , the young Plato ( 429–347 ) who had aspired to be a tragedian himself , repudiated tragedy and art in generals even burning his own plays . |
| 14 | Who had reigned over the Mercians in the period before 633/4 is unknown . |
| 15 | It was plain to the little man that the Assassin , who had exerted herself hugely , must eat first . |
| 16 | It told the story of a man who had searched for happiness on an island like Koraloona , only to be disillusioned , yet unable to tear himself away . |
| 17 | This was one U Nu , but not the deeper man , who had searched for so many years for enlightenment . |
| 18 | Pc James Crane , one of six officers who had searched for the alleged raiders , said both men had been trying to hide in bushes and ferns . |
| 19 | Doris was not only the niece of a past secretary who had contracted TB , but so had both her parents . |
| 20 | As Jay Cohen has pointed out , after the promulgation of these two statutes all insolvents who had contracted debts by non-fraudulent means could discharge their liability through personal bankruptcy . |
| 21 | She has recently returned from a journey in Romania to see the conditions of at least 1,000 children under the age of one , who had contracted AIDS through injections with dirty needles or contaminated blood . |
| 22 | He refused to comment on whether his organisation was carrying out the interviewing or ‘ disclosure ’ work on the children ; , he merely reiterated that they were involved in offering their assistance in whatever way was required by the department who had contracted them . |
| 23 | According to the Professor , people were virtually living on mountains of asbestos and despite this ‘ gross exposure ’ there was no evidence of people who had contracted mesothelioma , a form of cancer related to asbestos ’ , the Cork Examiner reported . |
| 24 | In July 1904 , he referred to Laura H. , a twelve-month-old child who had contracted measles , and had a very bad attack of broncho-pneumonia ( which was a common complication at that time ) . |
| 25 | The defendants who had contracted to refurbish a block of flats sub-contracted the carpentry work to the plaintiff for a price of £20,000 to be paid in instalments related to the work completed . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Then came Brian , who had cut himself shaving , and was dabbing the blood on his chin . |
| 28 | According to an assessment by Jovic , who had cut short a visit to the UN in New York , the conflict between Serbia and Croatia , combined with escalating tensions in Slovenia ( see below ) , presented Yugoslavia with an unprecedented crisis . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Apologies for those who had to sit on plastic seats . |