Example sentences of "who have [vb pp] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | I should like to hear from anyone who has set up a coldwater marine tank in this area . |
| 8 | Sergei Nazarev , who has set up a business-information consultancy in Yekaterinburg , fears that foreign investment is no guarantee of success . |
| 9 | Kalinowski is equally accommodating with Prince Adam Czartoryski , who has set up a foundation to restore to glory the castle of Goluchow . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Welcome back : Coming up shortly , the ghostwatchers who 've taken on a whole houseful of spirits . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Eddie Shah , who had built up a group of free weeklies based in Stockport , determined to launch a national daily , Today . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Actually she was a former girlfriend , and he had n't exactly visited her , because upon arriving he discovered she was living with an Algerian rug merchant — she had somehow neglected to mention this in her postcards — who had pulled out a scimitar and threatened to send the Swede home with his goolies in a sandwich bag if he did n't clear off instantly . |
| 21 | He placed the helmet squarely on the American boy 's head and glanced at Flavia Sherman , who had put on a wide-brimmed sun hat of white felt decorated with coloured ribbons . |
| 22 | In this , she was encouraged by Shelley Saxon , a former manager with Honey Perriam , who had set up a consultancy practice and worked from an office in the same building . |
| 23 | In some ways , though , Nick — as he insisted people call him — lived in the shadow of his father Alec , a renowned pacifist who had set up a Chair of Peace Studies at Bradford University on the sensible grounds that everywhere else seemed to study war . |
| 24 | Some of the improvements may have originated from his brother Jonathan , who had set up a flourishing instrument-making business in Rotterdam . |
| 25 | Recently , Iris had taken an interest in a group of young artists who had set up a studio in a converted barn in Lower Benbury . |
| 26 | Yet he it was who had set up a meeting with ‘ Miguelito ’ quite deliberately , knowing that he was going to dupe her into going . |
| 27 | ‘ Are we prisoners ? ’ said Gurder , who had cooled off a bit . |
| 28 | One of Peter Freygood 's friends in Regina was a chap called Geoffrey Byrnes who had taken up a literary job in Chicago in 1935 . |
| 29 | I did , however , recently visit a long-established and normally experienced retailer who had taken on a new member of staff who filled a big sales tank with a mixture of large Heteractis and Stoichactis anemone species . |
| 30 | After giving due praise for the ‘ truly magnificent score o 68 gross ’ ( not an official record as a temporary green was in use ) , Jack goes on to write , with sensitive appreciation , ‘ Spare a thought if you will for Fred Willson who had handed in a card of 43 points in the same competition , a Stableford round , which in ordinary circumstances surely would have entitled anyone to anticipate receiving the most acceptable prize from the Captain . |