Example sentences of "[noun sg] who have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffith was seduced by his own myth of himself and by the preoccupations of the Progressive era into believing that he was a serious thinker , whereas in truth he was an old-fashioned story-teller who had spontaneously discovered how the technology of film could be used to give stories a tremendous power . |
| 2 | The blood , the gaping holes , the bone sticking out of flesh , the stench of burst intestines — I am telling you this only because the effect on me , a boy who had never seen even a peacefully dead body before that day , was one I should never have predicted . |
| 3 | What plodded through the front door was not the lovable , lazy hound who had once lived there but a grim-faced light bulb serial killer ! |
| 4 | She had set her mind to it , and it would certainly be accomplished ; but in that winter dusk , as the rain fretted at her window , as she recalled the innocence of the child who had once sung alone in the house where her grandfather had done such wrong , Louisa Anne Agnew , already twenty-seven years old , wondered whether her life had yet properly begun at all . |
| 5 | But as she did so , she thought she heard a thin , piercing sound , like the wail of a child who has just wakened up and found himself alone . |
| 6 | He turned and the girl who had just come in let out a little scream . |
| 7 | From this pale and anaemic-looking girl who had once thought only of turning the heads of young officers , and whom the Collector had considered insipid , he now saw a young woman of inflexible willpower emerging . |
| 8 | I wanted her , at my convenience , to become a nurturing Mother Earth figure who would take care of my when I felt unable to cope , and the little girl who had never grown up was crying out for help and approval . |
| 9 | You can , in Ipswich erm Paul was looking at the , at the property you know because he 'd like to meet a girl and the two of them , he 'd like to buy and he 'd like to meet some girl who 's already got perhaps er either a council flat or something . |
| 10 | ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott . |
| 11 | AN 11-year-old Ulster girl who has never acted before has landed the starring role in a new £500,000 film . |
| 12 | The next minute , he was the teasing , confident extrovert who 'd calmly stripped off in front of her in his bedroom that night . |
| 13 | After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong . |
| 14 | Randy and Merlin Sherwood 's beautiful mother adjusted her mascara in the driving mirror and eyed Rupert Campbell-Black who 'd just rolled up alone in a dark green Ferrari to watch his daughter , Tabitha , play in the first final for the under-fourteens . |
| 15 | A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Hindenburg , who had taken part in the victorious campaigns of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 , was now built up into a father figure : the old general who had again thrown back the invaders of the Fatherland . |
| 18 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 19 | Some , they said had been declared unroadworthy by the Department of Transport who 'd then banned then from the roads and others were needed as evidence of alleged offences . |
| 20 | The book was intended as the unpretentious account of a Devon lad who has just kept on writing and then reading the news . |
| 21 | It is , therefore , worth bearing in mind that if you want a new tank , and have a friend who has just set up a new fish-house , you might do well to order through him/her … |
| 22 | Stevie and Patsy Mulligan are the sons of a dear friend who has recently passed away . |
| 23 | There was fierce controversy surrounding the conference 's decision on April 22 to invite , as guests , members of the 1981 Solidarity leadership who had since split away from the union — most notably the former national co-ordinating commission member Andrzej Gwiazda , who had left after accusing Solidarity 's chairman , Lech Walesa , of generating a personality cult . |
| 24 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |
| 25 | An innocent who 'd somehow wandered down into the rat run , just asking to get bitten . |
| 26 | He might still only be a juvenile who had never flown freely on the wind but he felt he had done nothing to warrant the abuse and fury of an eagle whose name he did not even know . |
| 27 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 28 | One of Morelli 's youthful students was Bernard Berenson , whom Morelli described in 1890 as ‘ an extraordinarily scholarly young man who had already advanced far in the study of art ’ . |
| 29 | And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door . |
| 30 | Minto summoned the man who had recently taken over the Headington practice from the household 's former practitioner , Dr Wood . |