Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [adv] [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 2 | Everyone put on their coats and crowded to the gate with that mixture of patronage and curiosity reserved by old prisoners for those who had just been shot down . |
| 3 | Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over . |
| 4 | Bradbury , who had also been sent off to this destination on 24 February , in company with Sqn.Ldr . |
| 5 | Hampson , who had not been sent off prior to this season , has had a wretched past seven weeks . |
| 6 | Lewis suddenly wandered on to the stage and started playing , hotly pursued by the band , who had not been tipped off . |
| 7 | These included a return to work for those who had not been laid off , the re-employment of the sacked strikers next week and a final , binding decision by the arbitration body ACAS . |
| 8 | Both Victoria and Albert were delighted with the Emperor 's charm and amiability , but above all they were captivated by Eugènie ‘ the dear , sweet Empress ’ , though the Queen confided to the Emperor that she realized how difficult her role must be for someone who had not been brought up to it . |
| 9 | A book about the children of the war , displaced children , children who had not been brought up by their natural parents or in their home countries . |
| 10 | Mr Doogan — who had previously been let in to the site at Aldermaston , Berks — claimed a new rule banned Irish people . |
| 11 | In February the Japanese made a great effort to surround a British and Indian force in Arakan , but the result was a resounding victory for our men , who had indeed been cut off for some days , but supplied by air . |
| 12 | He wrote also of an old man who had supposedly been snowed in , in pitch darkness , inside his stone hut , for thirty hours . |
| 13 | Fists flew when Thomas , 27 , and other Palace players were ambushed by a group of men who had earlier been thrown out of Joe Bananas revue bar in Croydon . |