Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience , all of whom shared two characteristics . |
| 2 | Preparing the ‘ patchwork pieces ’ from remnants was an ideal occupation for her continuing band of outworkers ; Laura considered it an essential part of her duty to keep feeding these women , many of whom lived such isolated lives in the hills that they might go for days without talking to anyone . |
| 3 | Some rescues described were more bizarre than anything else , including the rescue of two men collecting bonsai trees in Dalness chasm , one of whom got stuck ! |
| 4 | His restlessness permeated the entire house , and she felt guilty , certain that her presence was tying him to Gullholm , that if it were n't for her he would go home , or visit one or other of his sisters or his mother , all of whom made regular telephone calls . |
| 5 | The specimens he studied were collected mainly by J. Bennie and A. Macconochie , the official Fossil Collectors , both of whom made many significant discoveries during their careers . |
| 6 | He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him . |
| 7 | About 70 per cent of new entrants were over twenty-one , half of whom lacked two A levels , and fewer than a quarter were school-leavers with these qualifications or their equivalent . |
| 8 | They had six sons , one of whom died young and four of whom became Anglican clergymen , and seven daughters . |
| 9 | One author cited his own thesis seven times , out of a total of 10 citations , and two authors cited themselves six times — one of whom provided all of his total citation count . |
| 10 | My father came from a peasant family in Berkshire , consisting of three sons and five daughters , all of whom entered some kind of domestic service , the women rising to responsible posts as head housemaids , housekeepers and parlourmaids . |
| 11 | Potential side effects were noted by 47 ( 2.2% ) patients , some of whom reported several symptoms concurrently . |
| 12 | We saw in Chapter 2 part of the process of " negotiating Creole " in a conversation between two British-born girls , one of whom used Creole extensively , the other only rarely and tokenistically . |
| 13 | Among the vice presidents were S Boulton , D Howard , W Knight , C Lyle , H Marten and Dr Messel , all of whom headed large local industries . |
| 14 | The final stages of the negotiations coincided with the presence of Michael Clapham as Chairman of the Council , and Edwin Kerr as Chief Officer , both of whom played influential parts in the process . |
| 15 | Our branch has just short of 100 members all of whom received 2 books of lottery tickets to sell by the end of July . |
| 16 | But in this , which he achieved by bold leaps and chromaticisms of melody and harmony , he was far surpassed by Saracini and Belli ( neither of whom composed polyphonic madrigals ) whose shock effects are comparable with Gesualdo 's of the same period ( see p. 267 ) , as in this passage from Belli 's ‘ Ardo ma non ardi ’ from his Libro dell' arie a I e 2 V. per sonarsi con il chitarrone ( Florence , 1616 ) : or the opening of Saracini 's ‘ Tu parti ’ from his sixth book of Musiche ( Venice , 1624 ) . |
| 17 | Coalbrookdale acted like a magnet on artists , most of whom painted romantic images of the iron bridge in its wooded valley setting , and the bridge itself was soon being promoted as a tourist attraction . |
| 18 | Its opponents included 105 Republicans led by the House Minority Whip , Newt Gingrich , most of whom opposed any increases in taxation , while the Democrats opposed cuts in benefits and services . |
| 19 | Despite Knox 's fulminations against ‘ that cruel tyrant and unmerciful hypocrite ’ , the archbishop of St Andrews , and the ‘ woman born to dissemble and deceive ’ , Mary of Guise , it was in fact an act quite out of character of both archbishop and regent , neither of whom showed any taste for persecution . |
| 20 | Kaifu also managed to resist pressure for the inclusion within the new Cabinet of LDP members who were tainted by the Recruit scandal , which meant the continued exclusion from office of faction leaders Michio Watanabe , Kiichi Miyazawa , and Shintaro Abe ( a former Prime Minister ) , each of whom wielded enormous influence within the party and was considered a potential Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Ajan , secretary general of the International Weightlifting Federation ( IWF ) , was reacting to coach Vasily Alexeyev who branded Belarussian Kurlovich a drug cheat in a newspaper interview last week . |
| 22 | One young representative , Colin Mason , a computer systems manager from Streatham , who branded environmental controls as ‘ socialism by the back door ’ , was gently advised by the Secretary of State to read the Tory philospher Edmund Burke . |
| 23 | Formal nursing courses reflect these concerns , but there is at present no mechanism for updating the knowledge of those who qualified some time ago . |
| 24 | Spain will also take part in the World Cup , at Sydney next May , after holding Japan , who qualified 24 hours earlier , to a 1-1 draw . |
| 25 | They had a daughter , who married Wilfrid Scawen Blunt [ q.v. ] , and two sons who succeeded each other as Baron Wentworth and second and third Earl of Lovelace . |
| 26 | The eventual confirmation of Thomas , who succeeded black justice Thurgood Marshall , meant that the nine-member Supreme Court would be without a single liberal member for the first time in its modern history . |
| 27 | When the bundle of clothes hit the ground it was the dog who realised first that there was something inside , also broken and crumpled , and after the dog came the children , who revolved round the heap , fascinated , until one noticed the blood and began to scream , and adults arrived to remove them from whatever it was that lay on the concrete . |
| 28 | This index was started by Herbarium staff , who scanned new journals and books coming in to the Library . |
| 29 | A nineteen-year-old Coventry woman who disowned any interest in feminism or politics — " I 'm just a fun girl , " — said she could never remember anybody talking about " the clitoris or orgasms ' . |
| 30 | Given the tension here was one of humiliation , that can be sufficient in itself to sustain the momentum , especially as this workhouse scene comes at a critical point in the sequence structure — for they have already in an earlier lesson experienced the well-intentioned caring of the ‘ lady ’ who housed these girls out of pity but was obliged to hand them over to the authorities . |