Example sentences of "[noun] who had [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Medoc comes from the most ancient line of necromancers , ’ said the soldier who had asked why Tara 's brightness had been quenched . |
| 2 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 3 | Just a soldier who had got too big for his boots . |
| 4 | Once in the car on their way to the reception , Ace , still smiling at the hundreds of fans who had turned up , spoke out of the side of his mouth . |
| 5 | ‘ The Eddie ’ — shorthand for ‘ The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau ’ — was a collective act of surfing nostalgia , commemorating a North Shore waterman who had died heroically in 1978 . |
| 6 | So Adam slipped out of Castell Coch at dusk , and himself carried the word to Owen in his camp in the woods overlooking Cegidfa ; and a beggar who had hung about the gates for some days and been fed from the kitchens went after him every step of the way . |
| 7 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 8 | He held that an injunction could be granted against a stranger who had come innocently into the possession of confidential information to which he was not entitled . |
| 9 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 10 | Paddy Hopkins , chairperson of the MEG , flew to Finland , home country of Outokumpu , at the invitation of Hans Fers , a Finnish journalist who had written widely on environmental matters and covered the proposed mining of Croagh Patrick . |
| 11 | Of the new ‘ Nepmen ’ , two were Jews who had come in from some other guberniia , and the other three all had military experience but little capital in goods or cash . |
| 12 | He was horrified to find that a British grocery family , close relatives of the Jews who had taken over his lands , had title to the property . |
| 13 | Now , for the 10 per cent of house-buyers who rely on this report , or even the 15 per cent who rely on a mini-survey , that 's fine as far as it goes — and I would not wish to discourage anyone from having a professional survey , or ever advise against one — however , all the surveyors I know would prefer knowledgeable clients who had carried out their own surveys first and could present their results to them for investigation and comment . |
| 14 | The waiting-room was moderately full and there were several clients who had come in from neighbouring villages . |
| 15 | The waiting outside in the wind and the snow had been too much for a majority of the newsmen who had shown up originally . |
| 16 | Refreshed , we drove on to Shwebo and had breakfast with a small group of SPG missionaries who had camped out there , looking after the stream of refugees hoping to be flown to India . |
| 17 | They wanted the so-called ‘ Marseille millions ’ spent on big name players who would replace the capable , but long in the tooth , lads who had brought so much success before . |
| 18 | , Norman Hector Leifchild ( ‘ Nathaniel ’ ) ( 1893–1976 ) , humorous columnist , was born 31 May 1893 at 4 Somerset Road , Ealing , Middlesex , the only surviving son ( there were also three older daughters , of whom the younger two were twins ) of William Gubbins , commercial traveller , formerly an Oxfordshire farmworker who had run away to London at the age of twelve to sell groceries , and his wife Marie Cecile Richards . |
| 19 | By contrast , almost half of subjects who had received solely outpatient consultations had unmet needs ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 20 | Hilda Lodge welcomed the group of 50 qualified and student teachers present and gave a special welcome to Peggy Secord who had come along to share our day . |
| 21 | Hilda Lodge welcomed the group of 50 qualified and student teachers present and gave a special welcome to Peggy Secord who had come along to share our day . |
| 22 | The man looked round sharply at the figure who had emerged silently from inside the bar . |
| 23 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 24 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 25 | This year , as well as his old regulars , the Hoflins , Busacher , and old Anton , the répétiteur from Vienna , he had invited his friends on the theatre committee who had assisted so nobly in quelling the Gesner revolt , and Luiza , Freddi and Alfred , who came nearly every year but not so often they took it for granted . |
| 26 | Most of the Orphists were Cubists who had broken away and formulated new stylistic and aesthetic principles . |
| 27 | He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop . |
| 28 | In 1986 21 per cent ( 158000 ) of 755000 live births in the United Kingdom were registered outside of marriage ; 66 per cent of these were jointly registered by cohabiting parents who had chosen not to marry ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | At the wedding a host of best wishes were received from the other side of the world where many relatives called Jones still remembered young Carol who had gone off to Australia as a child and was now all grown up and about to get wed . |
| 30 | Baker , at least , was one senior Tory who had read more than the occasional Archer . |