Example sentences of "[noun] who [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 2 | The prime candidate for the job was General Henri Giraud , a courageous soldier who had opposed the armistice in 1940 and had been imprisoned by the Germans before escaping early in 1942 . |
| 3 | This vision is like that which Eliot praised in his childhood favourite , Kipling , whose Puck of Pook 's Hill and Rewards and Fairies particularly ‘ give at once a sense of the antiquity of England , of the number of generations and peoples who have labored the soil and in turn been buried beneath it , and of the contemporaneity of the past ’ . |
| 4 | But they were gifted the points by a Sunderland side who failed to take the chances on offer . |
| 5 | His youth policy has produced a side who have won the FA Youth Cup with a crop of richly talented players . |
| 6 | ‘ You think there 's someone on the Moslem side who 's got an interest in keeping things on the boil ? ’ asked Georgiades . |
| 7 | We 're referring mainly to the 500ft or 150 metre brigade who seem to find the cost of a reel prohibitive . |
| 8 | That they are included is as much for the protection of the member States themselves , who will be responsible for the budget of the organisation and need its field of operations to be defined , as for non-members who need to know the extent of the organisation 's powers . |
| 9 | Goals from Jimmy Quinn — his first for three and a half years — and Philip Gray — his first in a Northern Ireland shirt — lifted the hearts of 6,500 fans who had braved the inclement elements . |
| 10 | Defeat for the Welsh All Blacks , particularly at the fortress that is The Gnoll , is a rare occurrence , hated by the players , frowned upon by the coaches and detested by the increasing army of fans who continue to pack the ground . |
| 11 | Published by the International Development Research Centre ( IDRC ) in Canada , the papers were prepared by media theoreticians and practitioners from across the African continent who met to discuss the use of media to relay development information . |
| 12 | Those earlier showmen who had controlled the music-halls and vaudeville thought at first that they could incorporate film into their little empires but they were swept aside by new showmen who knew that there were vast audiences to be captured and that the old theatrical format was far too restricted . |
| 13 | The walkers who had wangled the lift with him looked as if they had been told they had a week to live , suggesting the car conversation must have fulfilled my expectations . |
| 14 | Walkers who wish to combine the ascents of both Norber and Moughton in a single expedition may do so : upon arriving at the T-junction with Norber already conquered , the route of ascent of Moughton from Wharfe should be joined . |
| 15 | Walkers who have visited the caves and potholes already mentioned , and enjoyed doing so , will be sorely tempted to stay on the limestone shelf and search for the dozen or more other similar openings hereabouts and then return to the Hill Inn for refreshment . |
| 16 | Ellen and I both assumed that Sweetman 's interest in Wavebreaker had been merely that of a prospective charterer who wanted to reconnoitre the boat 's amenities . |
| 17 | I certainly understood more about the explosive nature of Frankenstein 's situation ; hell hath no fury like a reformer who wishes to remake the world and finds the world prefers its irredeemable self . |
| 18 | The full list of schools who have entered the championships is : Harton Comprehensive School , South Shields . |
| 19 | The spread was partly due to the initiative of former pupils of deaf schools who wanted to continue the friendships which school life had forged and to help one another in adulthood , and partly to the evangelistic zeal and charitable urge of hearing people associated with deaf schools , who realised that deaf and dumb children needed support also in adult life . |
| 20 | The PC TUTOR is an essential program for all readers who wish to explore the potential of their computers further . |
| 21 | To aid your readers who go to see the movie , the scene in which Demi is clearly seen wearing the Linfield tee-shirt is when she is having a row with Woody Harrelson in the kitchen of her house . |
| 22 | Readers who have visited the ground will probably well understand the feelings of adjoining home-owners in what is at the moment a prime residential area . |
| 23 | Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) . |
| 24 | From the age of thirty , according to Foxe , he devoted his whole mind to the study of religion and he was a member of a group which included Tyndale , Coverdale and Latimer who met to discuss the writings of Luther and other Reformers at the White Horse Inn in Cambridge . |
| 25 | as if in defiance of the United Nations and to confirm Franco 's confidence in his regime 's rectitude , Cristino García , a former Republican exile who had reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the French resistance movement , was executed in Barcelona on 21 February 1946 . |
| 26 | Myo Nyunt in a speech on Aug. 15 , 1989 , accused traders who failed to cut the price of rice , meat and fish of " aiming at political and economic instability " . |
| 27 | More plebeian than the Die-hards and entirely independent of Conservative control were the activities of populist organizations who rose to challenge the Coalition government in by-elections at the end of the war . |
| 28 | A third of its men were new recruits who had seen no fighting , almost another third had seen as little as the Colonel , while only the rest , like d'Alembord , had actually faced a French army in open battle . |
| 29 | The losers were the depositors who had put the money up . |
| 30 | The series is bound to further annoy Tory stalwarts like Norman Tebbit and Edwina Currie who have accused the show 's bosses of left-wing bias . |