Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Cairo , exhausted by the traumas of recent weeks , she had been concerned not only about the Shah and his morale , but also about their four children who had gone ahead of them to the states . |
| 2 | The Belgian , who had popped out of the clinches to snatch narrow verdicts in three mass sprint finishes , settled the race with a remarkable show in the 40km time trial . |
| 3 | On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out . |
| 4 | One evening in their local pub , the Dog & Rabbit , an old gentleman who had moved out of the district on retirement , returned to visit his daughter who lived in the area . |
| 5 | Stephen Gardiner , who was Secretary to King Henry VIII , and Edward Foxe , the King 's Almoner , lodged there in attendance on the King , who had moved out of London . |
| 6 | During the inter-war period , when housing expectations among women were rising , one Medical Officer of Health found that mortality rates amongst families who had moved out of a slum area into new council houses actually rose , because correspondingly less was being spent on food . |
| 7 | Meanwhile they replenished their land-holdings by conquest and by the confiscation of the estates of those who had fallen out of favour : rebels and criminals . |
| 8 | So she watched , and listened , and fell a little further , and when his bleep went she went back with him to the department and they worked side by side , communicating with a gesture or a word almost in silence , each anticipating the other 's needs as they dealt with a little girl who had fallen out of a tree and broken both arms and one leg . |
| 9 | Carpenter 's speed and control was even causing problems for Harris , himself no slouch , and Farnham 's hearts must have been in their mouths when the Cranleigh number 10 , having broken clear on the right , hit the deck after a late challenge by Cann who had raced out of his area . |
| 10 | He was the Republicans ' defeated presidential candidate in 1960 , and the man who had stomped out of a press conference in 1962 when he failed to win the governorship of California , telling the reporters that they would n't ‘ have Nixon to kick around any more ’ . |
| 11 | Sarah , who had leaned out of the window to see the house , sat down again , smiling and blinking at the water drawn into her eyes by the cold and the wind . |
| 12 | ITV had a good traditional Western on , in which the grizzled old sheriff ( played by a clapped-out Hollywood actor who had kept out of politics ) taught the rules of the game and his homespun philosophy to his tearaway young deputy ( played by a reformed pop star ) . |
| 13 | He listened to Nigel Cramer for several minutes , nodded and gave his own orders to the dozen men who had clambered out of the second and third helicopters . |
| 14 | Among the young couples moving into the area were those who had dropped out of church life when they had left home to go to university , or when they got married . |
| 15 | Bertie Ahern , who had dropped out of the leadership contest to assure Reynolds of victory , remained Finance Minister . |
| 16 | ‘ Lovat was enquiring about you earlier on , Piper , ’ shouted one of the medics who had come out of the barn to tend to the wounded . |
| 17 | We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows . |
| 18 | He followed her , howling and swearing , so that Teresa , who had come out of the kitchen at the tremendous noise , cowered against the door and put up her arms to protect herself from what she believed would be an attack . |
| 19 | Once I was inside and looking at the space I had and the needs I had identified , I saw my task differently from the people who had come out of production , many of whom , whether men or women , continued to want to master/ mistressmind productions themselves as Executive Producer . |
| 20 | In it Christian psychiatrists , care workers , medical experts , ministers and those who had come out of the occult scene , spoke of the appalling wake of damage left by the occult . |
| 21 | Like so many boys who had come out of their National Service I had changed . |
| 22 | I was certainly an interesting sight for the Lilliputians , who had come out of the city in crowds of several thousand to see me . |
| 23 | It was my father , who had come out of hiding because he did n't want to be parted from us . |
| 24 | Richard H. Truly , 50 , was appointed on April 12 , 1989 , as acting administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) ; James C. Fletcher , a previous administrator who had come out of retirement to guide NASA after the 1986 Challenger disaster [ see pp. 34266-68 ] , had left the post on April 8 . |
| 25 | He was a man of strong ambition and had a doubtful reputation as an intriguer , but he was an able man who had deserved better of his party . |
| 26 | The rescript is of great utility in ensuring that the honour of a happily concluded marriage and indeed the faith of common children should not deceive a father who had thought better of the mother : therefore the emperor , most provident and most devoted to the cause of law , when he observed that the words of a trust were lacking , ruled by rescript that this expression should be treated as a trust . |
| 27 | The policeman , who had materialised out of the hedgerow when she approached the churchyard , had had her name written in his notebook . |
| 28 | Taken aback , she could only stare in wide-eyed silence at the man who had materialised out of nowhere at her side . |