Example sentences of "who had [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 2 | An authoritative denial of the Donaldson item came in and Rain passed it to Holly who regretted believing the man or the MacQuillans who had pushed her into writing it . |
| 3 | He looked towards Francis and Elaine , who had said nothing since stumbling into the TARDIS 's control room . |
| 4 | Bernice had tried to explain to her android companion about the man who had saved her from drowning in the quicksand . |
| 5 | Instead she gazed into the dully glowing ashes of the dying fire and remembered a wild , enchanted garden and a tender , handsome soldier who had awoken her to approaching womanhood with one gentle kiss and a rose . |
| 6 | In the eighteenth century at least one French nobleman refused the offer of the St Petersburg embassy because of the warning example of others who had ruined themselves by accepting it . |
| 7 | Against critics who had accused him of choosing to write of the sea and lonely islands in order to have greater freedom for his imagination , he protested that his own youth had worn ‘ the sober hue of hard work and exacting calls of duty , things which in themselves are not much charged with a feeling of romance ’ and that if he had any ‘ romantic feeling of reality ’ it was disciplined by ‘ a recognition of the hard facts of existence shared with the rest of mankind ’ , a recognition which , he believed , tried to make the best of the hard truth and to discover in it ‘ a certain aspect of beauty ’ . |
| 8 | It was his critics , Mr Clarke said , who had confused themselves by saying there would be one . |
| 9 | It was Theo and their father in unholy alliance who had talked him into abandoning Sien when she was on the mend , he now alleged . |
| 10 | In temperament he was not unlike Surere , a career official who had dedicated himself to climbing to the top of the power structure , though he had chosen the priesthood as his channel . |
| 11 | The President began the meeting as usual , with a review of the scientific advances of the previous year , naming experts who had helped him in making his list . |
| 12 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 13 | She had been swept along by Alain since her plane landed and now she was about to meet the woman whose glamour had brought her father to France , who had driven him to deserting his own wife and child . |