Example sentences of "who have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] in " in BNC.

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1 Publishers grow thick skins against negative reviewing , but I remain puzzled at the volume of abuse directed at this particular book , by an author who has spent many years working on his subject , opening up new areas of research , and who has arguably contributed more in recent years ( viz Orwell : The War Broadcasts , Orwell : The War Commentaries and The Larger Evils ) to the study of Orwell 's work than any other scholar .
2 The next minute , he was the teasing , confident extrovert who 'd calmly stripped off in front of her in his bedroom that night .
3 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 ’ .
4 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 .
5 Coupled with under-funding , this made commercial software development unattractive and many of the major educational publishing companies such as Heinemann , Longman , Oxford University Press , and Macmillan , who had initially invested heavily in software development , eventually retrenched or withdrew from their activities .
6 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 .
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