Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [pron] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held talks with his Malaysian counterpart , Mahathir Mohamed , who announced his support for Vietnamese membership of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 2 | Muni 's interest , however , would have come to nothing if there were not men at the studios who shared his enthusiasm for this potentially explosive subject . |
| 3 | He was thinking big , and thinking big meant a huge readership — a paper like the Mirror , to be read in equally large numbers by ordinary people who shared his contempt for organized politics . |
| 4 | Sir David Attenborough has been visiting a nature reserve to thank industrialists for helping to save a precious piece of the environment.He joined business sponsors who swopped their pinstripes for green wellies for the day . |
| 5 | The subjects were 20 Japanese patients with gastric ulcers ( 15 men and five women , aged 49 ( 13 ) years ) who visited our hospital for gastroendoscopic examination . |
| 6 | Cheers : Johan Egelstedt toasts his victory with Greville Janner , the local MP who championed his fight for equal status with female au pairs |
| 7 | There was also Alain , who filled her thoughts for most of the time . |
| 8 | All customers who accept our estimates for complete rewires will have the option to purchase a security light at just £9.95 , which represents a saving of over £50 on the normal retail price . |
| 9 | But she had no idea that the ‘ customer ’ who paid her £400 for five sachets of cocaine was Daily Mirror reporter Jill Turner — and that the transaction was being recorded on video . |
| 10 | John Reid took the honours on Captain Horatius , who confirmed his liking for soft ground by stretching away by four lengths from Half A Tick . |
| 11 | It will determine who forms a government on Friday and who governs our country for five years , ’ said Mr Major . |
| 12 | A man who lost his agency for imported electronic equipment , for example , did not praise nationalization of the import business . |
| 13 | The man had not been deliberately cruel or corrupt , like so many non-medical people who licensed their houses for this purpose , but he had stuck to the principle that the violent needed continual restraint , and his daughter still feared more progressive methods . |
| 14 | The term ‘ visually limited ’ is used frequently by writers in the United States ( Barraga , 1976 ; Bishop , 1971 ) and refers to pupils who use their vision for all tasks including reading print , but who may need prescriptive lenses in order to do so . |
| 15 | Although Rowlands , who resigned his presidency for seven days in the bloody aftermath of this summer 's centenary tour to South Africa , was happy to lay the issue to rest last night , the debris of the affair is still apparent throughout Welsh rugby . |
| 16 | An event when enthusiasts can parade their pride and joy … a time when their hours of endless polishing chrome can be enjoyed by people who share their love for these unique examples of American automobile history . |
| 17 | POLICE have spoken by telephone with the man who left his girlfriend for dead after a car crash in Cleveland . |
| 18 | Discredited and abused , the Junta retreated before the French , first to Seville , then to Cadiz : there its members resigned , to be insulted by the ‘ patriots ’ of Cadiz who searched their baggage for stolen government funds and finally imprisoned them . |
| 19 | Bill Brown , who carried his bat for 206 not out through Australia 's innings in the 1938 Lord 's Test , celebrates his 80th birthday on July 31 . |
| 20 | President Mengistu Haile Mariam , who misruled his country for 14 years , fled on May 21st to Zimbabwe , where his retreat was prepared . |
| 21 | I daresay that as a result of your letter and my few words , I 'll have an angry response from men who 'll say , ‘ what about the women who abandon their children for other men ? ’ |