Example sentences of "who had [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | After tea , Miandad began settling the score with Salisbury , the young legspinner who had dismissed him at Lord 's . |
| 2 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 3 | News travels fast on the gossip grapevine in any small community , and the watching townsfolk that night thoroughly approved that their sheriff was at last taking steps to deal with the unfriendly and unwelcome strangers who had secluded themselves at ‘ the ol' Bentsen place up th'road ’ . |
| 4 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 5 | Who had killed whom at the end of the day was hard to tell . |
| 6 | She chuckled at her romanticism : even most of the historians who had taught her at Cambridge sported tattered leather jackets and greasy jeans . |
| 7 | He reminded her of a mathematics mistress who had taught her at school . |
| 8 | At school , the few masters who had noticed him at all had tried vaguely to direct him towards science . |
| 9 | He was deeply in love with an Over Stowey woman called Ann Rice , but was forced into marriage to a half-mad girl who had visited him at his shelter and who bore him two illegitimate children . |
| 10 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 11 | DS Tony Bull , of Clacton CID , said police officers were anxious to hear from anyone who had seen anything at the premises between about 7.45pm on Sunday and 7.30am on Monday . |
| 12 | He watched Ewen steadily , while the constable , who had seated himself at the kitchen table , was taking notes . |
| 13 | The German forces in the area — Prince Rupprecht 's Fourth Army — were commanded by General Sixt von Armin , who had led them at Messines . |
| 14 | In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables . |
| 15 | The other occupants of the boat were a Marine sergeant and one of the soldiers who had found her at the village . |
| 16 | I bought it for £25 plus £3.10 for the tax and insurance from a taxi driver who had abandoned it at Middlesbrough station with a blown head gasket . |
| 17 | An eager public woman appealed to him with the story of her cleaning woman , who had proved herself at fault . |
| 18 | The same afternoon , my departed heterosexual colleague , who had bought it , and who had shown it at the conference , was on the phone : would I change my mind ? |
| 19 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 20 | She recalled the Jewish woman who had lectured them at Holmsly Manor . |
| 21 | ‘ He would verbalize his sadnesses , throw his arms about as he told elaborate stories concerning people who had upset him at the time , even when going into sad tales about people who were important to him . |