Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [adv] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each Saturday morning Eric would fly to Udine from Rome in one of the Desert Air Force bombers , in which he nearly froze to death , then hitch a lift from there to Verona — the huge Fiat was not part of the service . |
| 2 | Hoggart said that Saffron Walden was surely the current wife of Brian Walden , a joke which he later attributed to James Fenton . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , in the Office of Works he was in 1727 appropriately appointed to the new post of clerk of the works at the White Lodge , doubtless through the influence of Herbert ; while in 1734 he was made master carpenter to the Board of Ordnance , a lucrative preferment which he undoubtedly owed to John Campbell , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v. ] , who was then master-general of the Ordnance . |
| 4 | At the end of the day , they presented David with a complete baseball outfit , padded shoulders , football helmet , which he proudly brought to school the following day . |
| 5 | The broadcast was in reply to an Aug. 21 message from Mubarak in which he publicly appealed to Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait and thereby " save mankind from a destructive war which will leave a scorched earth " . |
| 6 | He amalgamated parts of human bodies to create a ‘ monster ’ , which he then brought to life . |
| 7 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |