Example sentences of "who had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 2 | In 1983 AI learned of the release of a group of Jehovah 's Witnesses who had been held without trial since 1978 . |
| 3 | The plight of an Argentinian clerk , Perico Rodriguez , imprisoned and tortured because of his criticisms of the military government , was brought to Amnesty 's attention by an English couple who had previously befriended Rodriguez two years earlier when they were hitch-hiking across Argentina . |
| 4 | Then earlier this year the group received a reply from another prisoner at Shalla who had been given their letter to Bashir by mistake . |
| 5 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 6 | The relatives of the 61 men who had vanished lobbied ministers and the King 's sister and brother . |
| 7 | Her mother tried to persuade the woman who had received the letters to let her talk with this guard ; a man who was actually in touch with her husband . |
| 8 | Meyer Schapiro , who had a specialist concern with Romanesque art , was an open-minded historian of this sort . |
| 9 | Venturi was a university teacher , son of a famous father , Adolpho Venturi , who had made a substantial contribution to the publication of documents of Italian art . |
| 10 | One of Morelli 's youthful students was Bernard Berenson , whom Morelli described in 1890 as ‘ an extraordinarily scholarly young man who had already advanced far in the study of art ’ . |
| 11 | The catalogue has the additional interest of a memoir by Silvio Berthoud , who had sat as a boy between five and eight for his uncle : |
| 12 | The article appeared in an Italian magazine Metro , who had intended to pay $300 for an article ; but when Johns ' dealer , Leo Castelli , knew that Steinberg was considering an article , he arranged for the magazine to offer $1,000 , paying the difference of $700 himself . |
| 13 | After the Second World War , for example , the photographer Alexander Liberman decided to visit the studios of artists who had contributed to a century of painting in France , painters and sculptors closely connected with the School of Paris . |
| 14 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |
| 15 | Some readers were upset by the hostility shown towards the murdered woman , and by the sympathy shown towards Jimmy — the sympathy of an author noted for his sceptical attitude towards revolutionaries , who had been hostile , in print , to all of the participants in the historical events which supplied part of his plot . |
| 16 | The family slave boy , Metty ( the name means half-caste ) , who had come to live with him , is firmly left behind . |
| 17 | ‘ The truest Plagiarism is the truest Poetry ’ , claims Thomas Chatterton , warming to Ackroyd 's theme , and perhaps overdoing it , along with Ackroyd 's Wilde , who had been able to believe that ‘ almost all the methods and conventions of art and life found their highest expression in parody ’ . |
| 18 | Ackroyd notices that the Eliot who had once called poetry a ‘ mug 's game ’ was eventually , in his play The Elder Statesman , to use the same expression for forgery . |
| 19 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 20 | This was Ursula of the long blonde hair and double-barrelled baronial-barbaric surname ( withheld by Behrens ) , who had fled what survived of ancestral estates — on one view of the matter — and had made her courageous way across Europe , shot at and winged by border guards , to Vienna , and on to London , where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt . |
| 21 | This is a bad day for Patrick , who had volunteered that Simon was ‘ one of a certain … persuasion ’ . |
| 22 | Arabs who had been expelled from their land and thrust into the condition of Jewish refugees are hereby reformulated as imperialist aggressors and as Nazis . |
| 23 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 24 | An eager public woman appealed to him with the story of her cleaning woman , who had proved herself at fault . |
| 25 | Not long afterwards , his attention fixed on the sufferings of those Poles who had caused their Jews to suffer , Mendel falls silent , thinking : ‘ Not only us . ’ |
| 26 | A R. What you are saying is that everyone seems to miss the work of Litz Pisk [ a legendary movement teacher at Central School ] who had such movement sense . |
| 27 | This occurred despite the continuity of the catholic hierarchy in Northern Ireland and despite the war experience of those catholics who had been involved in the army . |
| 28 | Even so , those who had any career success were extremely few in number . |
| 29 | But its opposition also had a base in the property-owning , rural peasantry , and middle-classes , who had in the nineteenth century paid a heavy price for their liberation from oppression and whose status became rooted in their property , land , and livestock . |
| 30 | This meant that couples who had married across the religious divide were not allowed to adopt at all . |