Example sentences of "[noun] who had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he would be pressing for the expulsion of several members of the local association who had privately aired derogatory views about a black candidate while publicly supporting him . |
| 2 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 3 | By that time I had made drinking friends in the Hotel Cabo de Hornos with a couple of young American teachers down from Ecuador who had long wanted to visit the Towers of Paine , the very spot where — geologists had written — the two tectonic plates in which I was interested had come together . |
| 4 | There is no champion tennis player who has never served a double fault ; no professional musician who had never played a wrong note ; and no doctor or nurse who has not made an error of diagnosis . |
| 5 | It was then Aberdeen 's turn to stare elimination in the face , and expulsion of the most embarrassing sort for a side who had earlier enjoyed a supposedly comfortable lead over the team from the lower league . |
| 6 | In the meantime there was Matey to reassure — Matey who had always given him her love and support , whom he had taken for granted , as though her love and loyalty were simply his due . |
| 7 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 8 | Those who dismissed the movies were also dishonest in the sense that they very rarely conceded that the whole tone of feature films had been moulded by politicians and largely middle-class pressure groups and religious organizations who had ceaselessly clamoured for censorship and for films to be morally edifying and uplifting . |
| 9 | The part was originally written for Antonia Bernasconi who had earlier appeared in Vienna in Gluck 's Alceste in 1767 . |
| 10 | In 1847 Richard Sheepshanks wrote of John Couch Adams , a Cambridge mathematician who had just predicted the new planet Neptune : ‘ I think there is a hope that Mr Adams will continue his astronomical career . |
| 11 | The two subjects in the eight-month restriction study who had already limited themselves to 6 hours did not benefit from the regime , and reverted to their own established norms . |
| 12 | She turned to the stranger who had just finished talking to a mechanic who was now giving her car the once-over . |
| 13 | They compared her , in advance , to similar women in the States who had manifestly succeeded but when they interviewed her , and found how she differed from the stereotype , they were even more intrigued . |
| 14 | Henry Parris , tutor-organiser for Northamptonshire who had previously served in a similar capacity in Yorkshire North District , also acknowledged that most of his organising work could have been done by voluntary members , given the time and opportunity to travel around the county . |
| 15 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 16 | ‘ I do not presume to counsel my sovereign on the choice of her advisers , ’ he once grandly told a journalist who had rashly asked him how he was going to vote in a parliamentary election . |
| 17 | The estate itself was to be used for the well-being of those Jews who had also suffered at the hands of the Nazis and other oppressors of the faith . |
| 18 | We had worked extremely hard on the case and we were going to make every effort to secure the acquittal of our clients who had always protested their innocence . |
| 19 | Bellingham , the most expensive and prestigious barber in London and supplier still of razors to those clients who had never adjusted to the shaving habits of the twentieth century . |
| 20 | Mandy was peering through the binoculars with the intensity of an army scout who had just discovered the enemy , and with a defeated sigh Charity let her own gaze drift in the same direction . |
| 21 | Following the staging on television of " confessions " by four Iranians who had allegedly acted as " CIA [ United States Central Intelligence Agency ] agents " , the four were hanged on Nov. 4 , 1989 . |
| 22 | Leapor also satirizes the intellectual pretensions of a figure in Crumble Hall who can tentatively be identified as the young William Henry Chauncy who had recently gone up to Oxford : |
| 23 | Emile Verhaeren , the Belgian poet who had vividly chronicled the impact of the railways on the countryside , was killed in an accident at Rouen Station in 1916 . |
| 24 | The JNA on Sept. 9 shot dead three Albanian border guards who had apparently crossed the border in error . |
| 25 | In 1989 no award was made , partly because the sponsor felt that publishers were submitting books by the distinguished but small group of authors who had already won prizes , and the prize was allowed to lapse until this year . |
| 26 | He smiled at Madge who had suddenly revealed unexpected human traits . |
| 27 | With the exponential explosion of human populations in the last hundred years the natural resources on which such societies traditionally depended have been under increasing pressure both from the indigenous people and from foreigners who had little thought or concern for practising sustainable harvesting . |
| 28 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 29 | Pest Control Leeds North recently held a joint celebration for Malcolm Morrell and Sandra Holbert who had both completed twenty five years with the Company . |
| 30 | The subjects were 20 of the drivers who had previously participated in Study 2 . |