Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two such passages stand out in my memory : one was of a forced march during the Crimean War ; the other , an account by someone who had travelled in the west of Ireland in the years of the Great Hunger . |
| 2 | And someone who had come into the district recently . |
| 3 | And it was Morse himself who had initiated the arrest of Mr Edward Stratton as he stepped off his plane in New York ; Morse himself who had spoken with the aforementioned Stratton for forty-six minutes , seven seconds — as measured by the recently installed meter in the recently constituted Telephone Room at St Aldate 's . |
| 4 | Nobody who had looked at the bald bullet-head and roly-poly self-confidence of the visitor , or heard his folksy repartee , could fail to have been reminded of an American grass roots politician on tour . |
| 5 | Altogether there were thirty-eight certificates , each for somebody who had died in the parish of Bad Schwarzendorn on April 15 1945 . |
| 6 | She thanked everyone who had contributed to the success of the day . |
| 7 | This expedition , in addition to proving a new method of jungle warfare , did another great thing for British troops : it convinced them of the friendliness of the people of Burma , for many of them who had fought through the 1942 campaign had prejudiced memories of those hard days . |
| 8 | The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater . |
| 9 | Even The Builder 's apparently factual report was criticized by ‘ One who had peeped behind the scenes ’ for having implied that the earlier delegation of MPs supporting Scott had a lower status because it consisted of amateurs rather than professionals . |
| 10 | So a NZ trained PPL would probably be much more at home with UK weather conditions after qualifying than one who had trained in the USA . |
| 11 | And the worst of it all was , Kate was the one who had to listen to the old sod ! |
| 12 | For one who had to listen to the gloom of the poor Leeds team of the 80 's pre-Wilkinson , I am just excited that we are there or there abouts . |
| 13 | No one who had stared into the chaos of the warp , no one whose living was to do so , could be unsophisticated and survive . |
| 14 | She was disappointed it was not the one who had kicked in the door . |
| 15 | And at night I asked one of the young men who was helping us , one who had come with the carters , to help me load the saint on to the wagon , to go to Ramsey to the aid and succour of our misused house . |
| 16 | I recognized him as the man with only three fingers on his left hand — the one who had come to the Admiral Benbow ! |
| 17 | Eventually they led the one who had spoken into the middle of the room . |
| 18 | On the way we passed a very old ran , bent almost double , wearing the uniform of one who had fought with the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia . |
| 19 | At yesterday 's launch of Brook 's Impressions de Pelleas , his reworking of Debussy 's opera , Robert Palmer , Glasgow 's director of performing arts , introduced Brook as ‘ one who had brought to the Tramway the hallmark of excellence and established there a benchmark for others ’ achievement . ’ |
| 20 | She was not alone any more in feeling oppressed by the strict formality , the strict time-keeping ; after-dinner games were more lively — and she was no longer the only one who wanted to giggle at the sound of the bagpipes that played them out of the dining-room after dinner every night . |
| 21 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 22 | That being so , since it must have been he who had agreed to the interview with Verity magazine 's representative to start with , he must know ! |
| 23 | So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral . |
| 24 | They concealed the horses and made camp among the trees , out of sight of anyone who chanced to pass during the night . |
| 25 | They sent up a thick screen of flak between the Goshawk planes and the second balloon , damning anyone who tried to break through The usual haphazard spray of machine-gun fire sprinkled the air , inaccurate and half-spent at that height , but it only needed one bulletin the head to destroy a whole aircraft . |