Example sentences of "[noun sg] who have [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 | In the meantime , Ferguson and Booth have enough to do with an under-21 side who have scored only one goal and taken one point in three European Championship qualifying ties with Switzerland , Portugal and Italy . |
| 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 | In true spy fashion , there is also a mysterious third man , Brian Litman , a Hollywood-based producer and agent who has signed up the Foreign Intelligence Veterans Association , a fraternal association in Moscow of 500 old spies made up of retirees from the former Soviet secret service . |
| 7 | But there was a school of thought which advocated the claims of Andy Hayhurst , the Lancashire exile who has filled capably one of the opening-bat vacancies left by the departures of Cook and Roebuck . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Chairman there were three areas of concern , the longer term objective were of course the bypass , that is some way into the future , the more the media is , that is concerned with traffic calming the more comprehensive traffic calming would be the subject of some in depth study who 'd defined exactly what pieces of , of traffic are most suitable for that village , but one element and that was to do with |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Heather Barrett is a journalist who has trekked extensively around the world . |
| 13 | We have announced a number of job losses over the past 12 months which have arisen as a result of er an internal cost cutting exercise to make our research more er cost effective , and also as a result of decisions by the Government and the electricity supply industry who have cut down their funding for basic research into reactor technology . |
| 14 | Not nearly so self-consciously ‘ modern ’ as , say , Slaves Of New York , this disaster-laden story of a Manhatten misfit who 's had enough does n't quite live up to the provocative promise of its title . |
| 15 | And Linighan 's teammates , astonished by his courage in heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra-time while suffering two serious injuries , reckoned it was a just reward for the defender who has battled so long to rid himself of the ‘ million pound misfit ’ tag . |
| 16 | , 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean , how was I to know you were n't a sex-mad pervert who 'd broken in and hideously raped you before coming after me ? ’ |
| 18 | The man looked round sharply at the figure who had emerged silently from inside the bar . |
| 19 | ‘ No officer living who has seen so little service as my Lord Marlborough is so fit for great commands , ’ commented William prophetically after the 40-year-old general had , in the autumn of 1690 , rapidly captured Cork and Kinsale . |
| 20 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As Captain of Stoddard Golf Club , I would like to thank all the members of the committee who have worked so hard to make it such a memorable year . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Baker , at least , was one senior Tory who had read more than the occasional Archer . |
| 25 | And as far as Folly could remember , there had been no reason to mention the name of the hotel to anyone else — except , of course , the police constable who had taken down her details . |
| 26 | The crimson rope-lights whipped forward effortlessly and the boy who had glared angrily at the Robemaker was forced back against the nearest furnace . |
| 27 | She had already met this young man , when he had last come to pay his rent , and found him startlingly different from the Welsh boys of her acquaintance — a big , silent boy with disillusioned , almond-shaped eyes sunk above high cheek bones , a boy who had stared unblinkingly at her until she had begun to blush with embarrassment , so that she had felt stripped , not only physically but mentally as well . |
| 28 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
| 29 | It 's like the school big boy who 's beaten up a first year and |
| 30 | The man was questioned by officers working on Operation Mountbatten — the police hunt for the so-called Horse Ripper who has carried out almost 30 attacks over the last 18 months in Hampshire and surrounding counties . |