Example sentences of "who have [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Todd first boxes Scotland 's Stephen Wilson , 20 , who has moved up a weight since winning silver at the 1989 world juniors and an ABA title in 1990 . |
| 2 | The Damned ( 1961 , These are the Damned in US ) compares the violence of contemporary youth to the behaviour of a scientist who has locked up a group of children for experiments . |
| 3 | Lynda Ramsden 's gelding , who has run up a sequence of four successes over hurdles this jumps season , should be suited by today 's extra two furlongs and meets third-placed Needwood Poppy on 6lb better terms . |
| 4 | Norwich were trailing Grant , who has turned down a new contract , last season and have maintained their interest . |
| 5 | Among the winners : a society of Japanese housewives which distributes environmentally sound products ; an Ethiopian agronomist who has built up a seed bank of plants for use in time of drought , and Survival International , which campaigns for the rights of tribal peoples . |
| 6 | The experience is made doubly uncomfortable because the man facing them is Dr Giovanni Agnelli , the founder 's grandson , director for 49 years , chairman for 26 , and the man who has built up an enterprise with a turnover of £26bn and 300,000 employees . |
| 7 | Our choice would be a former IBMer who has carved out a successful career running another computer company — Comdisco Inc chief Ken Pontikes is already facing up to the same problems besetting IBM , and despite his protestations , there 's always Ross Perot . |
| 8 | I should like to hear from anyone who has set up a coldwater marine tank in this area . |
| 9 | Sergei Nazarev , who has set up a business-information consultancy in Yekaterinburg , fears that foreign investment is no guarantee of success . |
| 10 | Kalinowski is equally accommodating with Prince Adam Czartoryski , who has set up a foundation to restore to glory the castle of Goluchow . |
| 11 | A GROUP of travelling people who has set up a temporary encampment near the Co Down village of Ardglass have called on the local council to provide a permanent site . |
| 12 | Mr Litman , who has set up an office in Moscow , is unperturbed by his rivals ' plans and promises that his ageing ex-spies will provide ‘ astounding new material that will shatter myths and create new controversies . ’ |
| 13 | That person is frequently the President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors who has set up an efficient administrative machinery for such appointments . |
| 14 | The essential appeal in ‘ Sliver ’ is the voyeurism of apartment building owner Zeke Hawkins ( William Baldwin ) who has set up an elaborate video system to monitor what his tenants get up to behind closed doors . |
| 15 | Someone who has taken only an option to buy has not ‘ bought or agreed to buy . ’ |
| 16 | Welcome back : Coming up shortly , the ghostwatchers who 've taken on a whole houseful of spirits . |
| 17 | This means people with As at A-level , first class or good 2.1 honours degree , first time passes in chartered accountancy , or graduates who 've held down a managerial post in industry and done an MBA . |
| 18 | According to an assessment by Jovic , who had cut short a visit to the UN in New York , the conflict between Serbia and Croatia , combined with escalating tensions in Slovenia ( see below ) , presented Yugoslavia with an unprecedented crisis . |
| 19 | The youngest was a Spanish cabinboy who had run away a few years before from his vicious captain , the oldest a maroon from Benin who had fled a plantation on an island to the north : he had stowed away in a pirate ship that had stopped to draw water on Oualie . |
| 20 | Many of the Minpins who had flown away a short while before were now returning on their birds . |
| 21 | Mitchell , who had turned down a place in Scotland 's team for the world cross-country trial to concentrate on his marathon commitments , clocked 2hr 21min 56 sec . |
| 22 | Rangers got no joy , either , from a referee who had turned down a first-half penalty claim for hand ball and was similarly unmoved when Huistra fell after making contact with Dykstra . |
| 23 | He seldom apologised in a tough league , but felt moved to once after a particularly loud , prolonged and slanderous outburst against a small , bespectacled umpire who had turned down an appeal : ‘ Sorry , umpire . |
| 24 | All right , yes , ’ knowing that she would n't be able to do it ; there were so many factors against it : the old woman along the corridor depending on her ; Charlie , who had given up a good part of his life waiting for her . |
| 25 | was absolutely privileged but the reporter and the publisher could face civil or criminal action ( Stockdale v. Hansard ( H.L. , 1839 ) , where libel damages were awarded against Hansard who had printed verbatim an authorised House of Commons Report ) . |
| 26 | Eddie Shah , who had built up a group of free weeklies based in Stockport , determined to launch a national daily , Today . |
| 27 | Well , i it was n't too bad at all , they the tailor 's shop actually , it was er a tailor and his wife , who had built up a business over the years , in Stapleford , and it was very well patronized by Stapleford people . |
| 28 | This was vintage Glenavon , recovering from a rocky start to take apart a team who had built up a fearsome reputation in a 26-match unbeaten run locally . |
| 29 | This was vintage Glenavon , recovering from a rocky start to take apart a team who had built up a fearsome reputation in a 26-match unbeaten run locally . |
| 30 | She asked if he knew a ‘ vile jacobin villain ’ who had led astray a young man from her parish called Burnett . |