Example sentences of "[Wh pn] did [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who did wrong , the master had them imprisoned there . |
| 2 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
| 3 | Close to the Inchnadamph Hotel , a monument commemorates the work of the two geologists who did most to unravel the secrets of these rock movements : Ben Peach and John Horne , colleagues of Archibald Geikie of the Geological Survey in Scotland in 1907 . |
| 4 | It was probably Thomas William Coke ( later the Earl of Leicester ) of Holkham Hall , Norfolk , on the other side of England , who did most to introduce the Devon elsewhere . |
| 5 | With Mel Blyth alongside and John Jackson in goal , John was part of the triumvirate who did most to keep us in Division one for four seasons . |
| 6 | Although Carr produced the most sustained attack on the assumptions of Idealism , it was Hans Morgenthau who did most to popularize the new approach of Realism . |
| 7 | In the twentieth century er the president who did most to , to develop the office further was , was Franklin Roosevelt , Theodore 's cousin er and Franklin Roosevelt , who became president in , in the nineteen thirties and the time of the great depression , and remained president for , till nineteen forty five so He was president for thirteen years er and his political opponents were so upset by this that they actually amended the constitution afterwards to prevent any future president from serving more than two terms of as president , so eight years is the maximum that anyone can serve as president . |
| 8 | Instead it was Andy Roxburgh 's new kid on the block , Eoin Jess , who did most to bring the young supporters out of their seats . |
| 9 | She looked at Laura , who shook her head , then at John who did likewise . |
| 10 | Of those who did eventually end up in court , the acquittal rate by March 1985 was 24 per cent ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) . |
| 11 | A male who did somehow manage to copulate with hundreds of females would be at an enormous advantage compared with a male who only copulated with one or two females . |
| 12 | performances of individuals , to see who did badly and which questions they got wrong ; |
| 13 | The single most important move of the 1938–50 period was the extension of selection to the entire age group , and the 1944 Act actually made this more commonplace , but it did not create the move — only forty-three LEAs , less than half , considered the whole group throughout the selection process , another forty LEAs qualified children by excluding those who did badly in a first exam as part of the selection procedure . |
| 14 | The job was carried out by piece workers who did rather well financially from carrying out what was a pretty filthy job . |
| 15 | Eva polished away with a will , thinking of Samuel in the temple who did even the most menial work for God . |
| 16 | The Labour challenger , 66-year-old Coun. John Scott , put up his tally by well over 6,000 , but Mr Devlin a young man in the right-wing mould of several Tory candidates who did unexpectedly well on Thursday night garnered even more of the disaffected centrists . |
| 17 | The boys who did exactly what he said , when he told them … |
| 18 | ’ I have a friend who did exactly that . ’ |
| 19 | So who did best ? |
| 20 | Waechter declared himself " a little disappointed " that Les Verts , who did best in Alsace where they won 12.57 per cent of the vote , had not performed better . |
| 21 | Learn a lesson from a lad I know , who did just about everything wrong . |
| 22 | A nineteen-year-old insurance agent was one who did just that . |
| 23 | Such was Johnson 's dominance that Jack London wrote : ‘ Plucky , but absolutely helpless , the white man seemed to be a victim of a playful Ethiopian who did just as he would ’ ( quoted by Gillmore , 1975 , p.29 ) . |
| 24 | These are also designed with an eye to reassuring those who did well out of the switch from rates to poll tax . |
| 25 | Those who did well out of coffee growing started employing labourers and consolidated their control over the best land . |
| 26 | In the nearby town of Thame , Lord Williams ( who did well from the pickings to be had in that century ) founded his own grammar school : Oxfordshire lost one and gained one . |
| 27 | But it was always the newcomers who did well : the older families , the Hawaiians , were always the losers . |
| 28 | I was told it was not necessary to be big and hefty to take part as it was often fell runners who did well , wiry types with good strong legs . |
| 29 | Sue Hastings , of the Trade Union Research Unit at Ruskin College in Oxford , recently warned delegates at an RCN stewards ' conference that clinical nurses — especially those in high-tech areas and with teaching roles — would lose out through job evaluation , She argues that existing job evaluation schemes are too often management-biased , with the danger that clinical specialists who did well out of clinical grading might find themselves downgraded . |
| 30 | Yesterday , one Right-winger who did well in the reshuffle , Home Secretary Michael Howard , followed Scottish Secretary Ian Lang in defending Mr Major . |