Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later I understood why our national hero was so unpopular : he was the Tory minister who had called out the troops against the miners in the 1920s , an action much more pertinent in our mining town than the defeat of Hitler . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She tried to smile a real smile at her father , who had run down the town to be here for the big moment . |
| 4 | The Party had to be cleansed of those who had stirred up the students and caused trouble . |
| 5 | It was the old Therese , the happy , extrovert Therese , the golden girl who had lit up the stage of the Volksoper . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But the guy who joined Cyril at that time , Cliff Barton , was a buddy of mine who lived opposite me , and who had turned down the gig with Mayall . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Seamen felt themselves constantly under attack from the press , particularly that presided over by Lord Northcliffe , who had given up the conscription campaign , but continued to blacken the character of merchant sailors and firemen , while in other circles they were being lauded for their valour by no less a person than Admiral Sir John Jellicoe himself . |
| 12 | Who had given up the ghost . |
| 13 | Thus , in the example of the punishment of a one-eyed man who had struck out the eye of another person , the Pharisee would not approve of striking out the remaining eye of the offender , unlike the Sadducee , who would . |
| 14 | As the older generations who had kept up the tradition passed away , there were not so many young people in the village to carry it on and they had left to find employment and housing in the towns . |
| 15 | Eddie Shah , who had built up a group of free weeklies based in Stockport , determined to launch a national daily , Today . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | Those Right-Ons who had written off the Labour Party for ever now began to chew humble pie , and were drawn to Livingstone 's GLC as though to a magnet . |
| 20 | The judge said during the raid Munn stood in front of the counter and the man who had broken down the screen handed him out the £6,460 from the teller 's cash drawers . |
| 21 | But nearby there was a very large adult macaque who had worked out an even better solution . |
| 22 | He replied , apparently to the students ' dissatisfaction , that he had himself encountered nothing of the kind and indeed that many of those who had started off the war with him and seen it through to the end had become major military commanders . |
| 23 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |
| 24 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 25 | And Melanie 's aunt might be important if Loretta was going to pursue this line of inquiry : presumably it was she who had brought up the girl after her parents ' death in the plane crash . |
| 26 | The detective-constable who had brought in the exhibits had said that the girl had been to a dance . |
| 27 | In May 1987 the debtor , who had carried on the business of running a nursing home , sold the business as a going concern and went to live in the Canary Islands . |
| 28 | The surveyor who had carried out the inspection had seen the water during his survey , but had put it down to a leak in the central heating system . |
| 29 | They did not have time to destroy the ship 's logbook and this , combined with the testimony of the survivors , was evidence enough for Eck and those of the crew who had carried out the shooting to be arrested and tried by court-martial . |
| 30 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |