Example sentences of "[Wh pn] ran [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were advised by many friends , including Norman Hadden , Graham Thomas , Lanning Roper and old lady , Nellie Briton , who ran a rock-garden nursery near Tiverton . |
| 2 | So , it came as something of a disappointment when a Ms Mel Chevannes , who ran a black supplementary school in the West Midlands , wrote to the Wolverhampton Express and Star to protest at my testing ‘ hypotheses that black people are ‘ happy-go-lucky or very physical in their outlook ’ ’ and that my aims were to ‘ damage even further the life chances of black children ’ ( 25 June 1980 ) . |
| 3 | This was done very effectively in the late seventies in campaigns by Whitbread , who ran a series of ads asking for public comments on a number of propositions about the law affecting pubs and licensing ; and subsequently by the major banks , who ran a joint campaign partly designed to deter the threat of nationalization — a campaign which attracted many thousands of replies from the public . |
| 4 | Miss Harder was a spinster in her early fifties who ran a small tobacconist 's shop in London 's Archway . |
| 5 | When I first arrived , at the age of twelve , I was advised to try a family in Borgo delle Colonne , a long cobbled street with an arcade along one side , very typical of Parma , where a woman who ran a small dairy business undertook to look after me . |
| 6 | At the age of fourteen he was sent as a private pupil to the Revd Alfred North , who ran a small school for dissenters in Oundle , and he spent two years pursuing classical studies there . |
| 7 | Many of the older folk will remember Bobby Whale , who ran a fried fish shop from his house in Kent Road , and old Mrs Poysden whose toffee apples were the best I 've ever tasted . |
| 8 | Sidney Biddle Barrows , who ran a call-girl service in the 1980s , said the top-secret file was the only thing stolen from her Manhattan flat . |
| 9 | A management board was set up that comprised ‘ everybody who ran a little bit of the firm ’ . |
| 10 | Luckily we had bought them from friends who ran a nearby saddler 's shop ; unluckily they only had coarse blades in stock for our make of clippers . |
| 11 | His fine balance in the ring was spotted by his future manager , Samuel Wilson , who ran a sixpence-a-week gymnasium . |
| 12 | A couple who ran a social club for three years are taking legal action after being given just two hours ' notice to leave their jobs and home . |
| 13 | Typically , the tour was a do-it-yourself affair organised by Gedge with the help of Thomas Zimmerman , a fan of the group who ran an independent booking agency . |
| 14 | The front row on the left was taken by the two light-skinned women who ran the Primary School . |
| 15 | While the British were doing this , they learnt enough about the political situation in Bengal to realize that in a few months of confused and contradictory policy ( of which his aggressive and then conciliatory treatment of the East India Company was only one example ) Siraj-ud-Daula had lost the confidence of the Hindu merchants and bankers who ran the financial system and of some of the Muslims who ran the Bengal army . |
| 16 | Around the turn of the century , the mill was bought by a Mr Herbert who , in turn , let it to Henry Boulting who ran the adjacent farm . |
| 17 | Ann Cook , 48 , of Church Road , Yardley , Birmingham , who ran the Posh Paws parlour , had tethered the dog to a table next to the heater to dry while she made herself lunch , said Mr Wykeham Garsia , prosecuting . |
| 18 | For a few months in the summer of 1939 he worked at 2 Caxton Street , Westminster , alongside L. D. Grand , a Woolwich contemporary who ran the then inadmissible section D of the secret service . |
| 19 | Peter Jones , who ran the Atomic Weapons Establishment from 1982 to 1987 , is also concerned that production of the next generation of Trident warheads is going ahead in buildings which are more than 30 years old which might not be able to contain a bad leak . |
| 20 | Pierre Matisse , the artist 's son , who ran the famous New York gallery which bore his name from 1931 until August 1989 when he died aged eighty-eight , left a stock of 2,300 paintings by sixty-one modern artists , purchased for $142.8 million by Sotheby 's and New York dealer William Acquavella . |
| 21 | At one extreme , there might be the virtual monoculture of the new agricultural areas , imposed by their orientation towards a remote world market , and intensified , if not created , by the characteristic mechanism of foreign merchant firms in the great port cities which controlled this export trade — the traditional Greeks who ran the Russian corn trade through Odessa , the Bunges and Borns from Hamburg who were about to fulfil the same function for the River Plate countries from Buenos Aires and Montevideo . |
| 22 | The girl clearly missed having a woman around who was closer to her age than the rather stiff-faced servants who ran the great hacienda . |
| 23 | Lawyer C was the legal executive/managing clerk who ran the small provincial practice . |
| 24 | Myeloski was beginning to realize that he could be taking on forces that encompassed the very people who ran the Soviet Union , the powermasters who employed him to keep the peace as a police officer . |
| 25 | Noel Gardens , that 's the gardens of the people who ran The Early Bird Gardens run now is n't it ? |
| 26 | This time one came off ; the man who ran the shy picked it up and gave it to Emmie . |
| 27 | The boaters happened to be Russell Train , who ran the Federal Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in Washington , just 50 km to the west , and Senator Charles Mac Mathias of the state of Maryland , which shares with Virginia the bay 's 13 000 km of shoreline . |
| 28 | The 1695 date was possibly invented by Newcomb to goad his arch-rival John Drakard , who ran the radical Stamford News from 1809 to 1834 , as Newcomb was well aware of the 1712 date . |
| 29 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 30 | IT WAS always this week that the people who ran the residential home began to put up the streamers and tinsel of Christmas . |