Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | TOYBOY , 38 , WHO CHUCKED AN ASHTRAY AT HIS WIFE , 87 |
| 2 | Her work was brought to the notice of Dr Trew , who produced an enlarged edition under the name Herbarium Blackwelliarum ( 5 vols. 1750–56 ) with five hundred hand-coloured etchings . |
| 3 | Joseph Spence , the Oxford professor of poetry who produced an account of Stephen Duck 's life and writing in 1731 , was far more interested in ‘ The Shunamite ’ , a Biblical piece , than in ‘ The Thresher 's Labour ’ for which Duck is now remembered . |
| 4 | This conundrum puzzled Daily Mirror columnist , Marje Proops , who produced an excellent summary of the issues of sexual assault : |
| 5 | Her sympathy for Mrs Wallington helped her to ignore the realisation that it was an enormous relief to be away from Anthony and with people who produced an atmosphere of such calm and ease that she felt immediately at home with them . |
| 6 | I am saying that Lord Justice Woolf , who produced an authoritative report on prison riots and the improvement of prison conditions — admittedly , a report that does not recommend the one thing that the Home Secretary has chosen to do , but a report which the Home Secretary wrongly described as comprehensive — draws attention time after time to the simple fact that all prisons that rioted in 1990 and were the subject of the inquiry were so overcrowded that many of the proper duties that prisons should perform were not being and could not be performed . |
| 7 | One of the most widely-appreciated uses of SYMAP in the UK was Rosing and Wood ( 1971 ) who produced an atlas of Birmingham and the Black Country . |
| 8 | MR ALAN BOND , the London-born tycoon who became an Australian hero in 1983 when he won the America 's Cup yacht race , was declared bankrupt yesterday . |
| 9 | In 1543 , Henry VIII took as his sixth wife , Catherine Parr , who had already survived two husbands , and she also survived Henry VIII who died in 1547 , to be succeeded by his nine year old son , Edward VI , who became an enthusiastic Protestant . |
| 10 | In a double-edged compliment , a form in which she excelled , Princess Pauline Metternich attributed this to the fact that Eugènie ‘ was a woman of the world who became an Empress ’ and therefore knew how to deal with disparate groups of people , many of whom had no experience of Court life or etiquette . |
| 11 | Linford , who became an MBE in 1990 , considered quitting athletics after flopping in last year 's World Championships . |
| 12 | Pont , who became an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects , came into his own at the outbreak of war in 1939 . |
| 13 | He said Walters — a former RAF pilot who became an intellectual high-flyer — had suffered anguish over the affair . |
| 14 | There was once a tribe of Indians in the far north-west of the United States ( I 'm not inventing them ) , who lived an extraordinarily easy life . |
| 15 | MADRID — Howard Marks , the Briton accused by US police of being the ‘ Marco Polo ’ who led an international ring of hashish smugglers , yesterday took one step closer towards extradition to the US , where he faces up to 113 years in jail , Tim McGirk writes . |
| 16 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 17 | David Livingstone , a geography master at Rugby who led an expedition to Borneo , said : ‘ It was a memorable trip which will give the pupils tremendous confidence in the way they tackle travel as adults . |
| 18 | Mr Michael Mates , MP for East Hampshire , who led an unsuccessful attempt to relate the poll tax to ability to pay and was Mr Michael Heseltine 's campaign manager during the leadership struggle , becomes Minister of State for Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | It may be of interest to readers to detail two stories of born-deaf people who led an adventurous life during this period , for their experiences are unique . |
| 20 | Chlorosis , which was described as an anaemia and commonly referred to as the ‘ green sickness ’ because of the appearance of its victims , was regarded by doctors as a middle class ailment , contracted by women who led an idle , self-indulgent life . |
| 21 | Of the courses that were specifically described as management training , 67% of them were carried out by libraries who expected an above average number of programmes for the coming year , who themselves comprised 27% of the sample . |
| 22 | It was also regularly inspected by the Station Commander , who appointed an officer to be in charge of the aircraft . |
| 23 | As a preacher who cultivated an accessible style of preaching , as a monastic legislator , and as the convenor of a number of major church councils , he was perhaps the most influential product of Lérins . |
| 24 | Perhaps it is the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) , who fought an election on an honest programme and was defeated . |
| 25 | I think of all those using this channel : – people who gave generously , of their good money ; people who gave their physical strength ; people who gave limitless time ( even their annual leave from work ) ; people who managed a little time after work ; people who baked ; people who prayed ; the member who supplied the entire plant stall ; people who counted ; the little girl who devised an amusing quiz as her ‘ channel ’ ; people who served , and often withstood the cold winds of George Street ; people who used their artistic talents for communication ; people who lovingly restored the Church afterwards ; our engineer , who invented a ‘ chair-lift ’ for us , and then , literally , put his shoulder to the wheel – and the bright spark who had fired him with the notion ; and finally and uniquely , the couple in Trinity , part of whose house is always given over to storing books so that this channel may be kept open . |
| 26 | His parents , Abraham and Beattie , were ordinary , respectable , middle-class Jews who owned an electrical-goods store in the town ; his grandfather , who left Russia in the 1920s , had been a peddler and a shoemaker . |
| 27 | The other principal and active member was another lawyer , A.J. Wickens , K.C. , who owned an extensive collection of recordings at his Third Avenue N.W. home from whence he broadcast special programmes over the ‘ dinner hour ’ on Mondays , Wednesdays and Fridays . |
| 28 | He was one of seven bosses who shared an £8.1 million package , including £1.4 million to top up pension obligations , in one of Britain 's biggest post-takeover settlements . |
| 29 | It had become the regular haunt of hearty working men with fearsome bottom cleavage , who shared an appreciation of small newspapers with big headlines , a moderate spread at an affordable price and a well-turned ankle . |
| 30 | There were at the time parallel proceedings against the mortgagees to preserve the plaintiff 's priority rights against the property by virtue of the caution entered at the Land Registry , and it was the mortgagees who requested an adjournment from 6 June 1991 to a later date . |