Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading after day one were Australia 's Greg Norman and Peter Jacobsen from the US , who had shot rounds of 67 . |
| 2 | Two Iraqis , aged 29 and 49 , were sentenced to death on May 5 for informing on and torturing Kuwaitis who had formed part of the resistance to the Iraqi occupation of 1990-91 . |
| 3 | Both members and visitors were attracted by a varied tennis programme , supported by the squash section who had arranged activities of their own . |
| 4 | Or they might shelter piratical degenerates who had become creatures of Chaos . |
| 5 | Capt. Valentine E. M. Strasser , the 27-year-old junior officer who had become chairman of the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) after leading an April coup [ see pp. 38853-4 ; 38900 ] , made a series of changes in July to both the composition and structure of the government . |
| 6 | Setting up of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell had been agreed in October 1945 ; approval to build the first British atomic pile for the production of plutonium had been given in December ; the Chiefs of Staff had stated their requirement for a British manufactured atomic bomb in January 1946 ; William Penney ( later Sir William ) had begun to plan the Atomic Weapons Section of the Armaments Research Establishment , of which he was Director , in mid-1946 ; the Air Ministry placed its first requisition for an atomic bomb on the Ministry of Supply in August ; and Lord Portal , the wartime Chief of Air Staff , who had become Controller of Atomic Energy in the Ministry of Supply , sought a mandate from the Prime Minister to set atomic bomb development in train during the autumn of 1946 . |
| 7 | Long , who had become Governor of Louisiana at the age of 34 , was an able reforming politician , a brilliant and often hilarious orator , and a ruthless power-seeker . |
| 8 | After the coup , the only way leaders who had remained members of the central committee or the Politburo or even of CPSU regional committees could retain their influence was to repudiate the party and leave it as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | A sign by its side provided the history of the late Stone-Age burial chamber together with its date of discovery and a list of those who had assisted members of the Danish Archeaological Society on the dig : ‘ professor Eberhardt , Professor Danziger , their wives and their children . … ’ |
| 10 | In the steerage there were nine who had been dressed , and four in their hammocks who had undergone amputation of the arm or leg . |
| 11 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 12 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 13 | A SIMPLE natured man who had suffered years of taunts and attacks by vandals lost his temper and beat an 11year-old boy , a court heard yesterday . |
| 14 | A SIMPLE natured man who had suffered years of taunts and attacks by vandals lost his temper and beat an 11-year-old boy , a court heard yesterday . |
| 15 | What happened next , was done by a child ‘ who had suffered years of subtle torture at the hands of a madman whose twisted mind helped him justify all his crimes ’ . |
| 16 | Brought in over him was Tony Cook , a good-natured and permanently jolly NoS regional activist and successful businessman who had invested £6,000 of his own money in the paper . |
| 17 | The headmistress had tried to insist that she go on a racial awareness course , she who had taught children of different races for over twenty years . |
| 18 | He shook hands with scores of clerks , cooks and cleaners who had overcome feelings of revulsion and fear to turn up for work after the brutal and ghastly murder of their friend and colleague , who had been chained to a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 19 | By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level . |
| 20 | On the other hand , strength at sea would help displace the Portuguese who had gained control of the Indian Ocean a century earlier , and this would please the Emperor ; accordingly the East India Company armed its ships heavily enough to hold the sea against the Portuguese and against the local pirates . |
| 21 | The God of the Bible was not a God who had delegated control of the world to celestial intelligences or other ‘ Platonic godlets ’ as Erastus called them . |
| 22 | Kerrey , a distinguished Vietnam veteran who had lost part of a leg in combat , had castigated Clinton as unelectable because of his avoidance of service in Vietnam . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's the bird with the two Afghans , ’ said Arthur , who had seen pictures of the dogs in the papers . |
| 24 | The report was based on the work of a team of marine scientists , who had analysed samples of sediments , molluscs and fish collected in the northern Gulf following the war . |
| 25 | There was apparently no Soviet objection in January 1968 when , following economic and other difficulties , Antonín Novotný was replaced as party first secretary by Alexander Dubček , a Slovak who had received part of his education in the USSR . |
| 26 | Following Broca 's ( 1861 , 1865 ) analyses of aphasia in right.handed patients who had sustained lesions of the left frontal lobe , Jackson ( 1868 ) drew attention to the case of a left handed patient who had become aphasic following a presumed right.sided lesion . |
| 27 | People who had had experience of the National Assembly , where much the same procedures were followed , or who had picked up the style from televised broadcasts of it , were at a decided advantage . |
| 28 | The House of Lords rejected this argument and held that the two sections could defeat the title only of an owner who had entrusted possession of his goods to a buyer . |
| 29 | That completed a Festival double for amateur Marcus Armytage , who had steered Tug of Gold to a game defeat of Paco 's Boy in the Kim Muir the previous afternoon . |
| 30 | Tamar thought of the gentle man who had shared part of her life at Cherry Tree Farm . |