Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1990 , a pretty blonde child called Kathy listened as her mother screamed at her husband who had killed a small boy in one such accident . |
| 2 | The elderly lay proprietor , Miss Cordelia Claybury , had inherited the madhouse from her father who had made a good living out of the rich and insane . |
| 3 | Boswell had two fears for the sociability of their stay at Cawdor : that his eminent companion might quarrel with their host who had revealed a penchant for speaking ‘ slightingly of the lower English clergy ’ , and that ‘ a whole evening at Calder-manse might be heavy ’ . |
| 4 | She affiliated herself more with the opposing camp of Impressionism — when a female caller at her studio who hoped to have a portrait done told Walker that she was regarded as having a ‘ Burne-Jones-face ’ Walker replied , ‘ what a damn sickly sort of face to have ! ’ 20 However , despite this aversion and the fact that her own women do not resemble the Pre-Raphaelite type , in her attitude towards her women there is much that is similar . |
| 5 | Her own mother was now living with her son who had married a Polish girl from Hoboken . |
| 6 | John likes to visit his old friends and also travels to see his brother who has had a stroke . |
| 7 | Well I think it 's it 's up to the people your the extended family to support people in your position who do have a child like that . |