Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientific research is usually carried out by a team of scientists , often from several disciplines who work together , each of whom contributing something to the whole . |
| 2 | He was survived by his wife Anne , daughter and heir of Richard Comport , of Eltham , and a son Comport ( born 1676 ) , who succeeded him in the baronetcy . |
| 3 | All the time we were assailed by the noise of a hundred bells and the screams of hawkers and traders who sold everything from a piece of iron to hot chestnuts . |
| 4 | DOG SAVES WOMAN : Alsatian saved 27-year-old woman ower by biting man who attacked her with a knife . |
| 5 | An obvious objection is that the attitude of respect is not regarded by those who display it as the source of their obligation . |
| 6 | Harry Herbert , the son of the Queen 's racing manager , the Earl of Carnarvon , James Boughey , a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards , farmer 's son George Plumptre , who asked her to the ballet the day she got engaged , the artist Marcus May and Rory Scott , then a dashing lieutenant in the Royal Scots Guards , often came to call , along with Simon Berry , Adam Russell , and James Colthurst . |
| 7 | A playwright once responded to someone who asked him about the message of his play that when he wanted to send messages he did so by telegram . |
| 8 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 9 | When an Information memorandum is released the form is passed to Mirian Sedlan who records it as an introduction on the INTRODUCE database and files the papers . |
| 10 | Alternatively it might simply be recorded that additional capital should be credited in the firm 's books to the partner who contributes it as an addition to his share — with a corresponding alteration in the capital sharing ratio . |
| 11 | They say that monkeys are often badly treated by people who bring them into the country without really understanding how to care for them . |
| 12 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 13 | It has turned into the longest slump since the 1930s because real interest rates have remained punitively high , squeezing millions of home-owners who over-reached themselves in the housing boom . |
| 14 | Victor Mature it was , no less , who led him to the Lord . |
| 15 | The choice of Natal is strange as captain Craig Jamieson , the man who led them to the Cup in 1990 , is still very much involved in rugby . |
| 16 | ( There ) ‘ we were met by the Viscount Walsh ( Chamberlain of the Emperor ) who led us to the apartment of the Baroness de Pierres ( ex Miss Thorne of New York ) who is now a lady-in-waiting to the Empress ’ . |
| 17 | Heroes : Augusto Odone , who refused to accept there was no cure for his son , and Nick Nolte , who plays him in the film Screen drama : Michaela Odone , played by Susan Sarandon , nurses her son Lorenzo , Zack O'Malley Greenburgh , in a moving scene from Lorenzo 's Oil Prof John Sargent : helped pioneer treatment |
| 18 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 19 | The Runefangs were presented to the ruling Emperor who divided them between the Elector counts . |
| 20 | While still in his teens , and with an audacity that marked his whole career , he made himself known to the officers conducting the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain , who recommended him to an MP for county Mayo , Ireland , as capable of providing the Mayo grand jury with an accurate county map . |
| 21 | One person whose eye he did catch was Patrick McGoohan , who recommended him for the role of cabin boy John Drake in Sir Francis Drake , a twenty-six-part adventure series made by ITC , whose boss , Lew Grade , was expert at making programmes that would sell to America ; one of them was Danger Man , starring McGoohan . |
| 22 | Taskopruzade 's grandfather , for example , studied under Molla Yegan , probably at some time alter 839/1435–6 , and it was Molla Yegan who recommended him for the post at Taskopru . |
| 23 | Again in 1699 , criticism was levied of , ‘ … the Mayor and Constables for not punishing of wicked and lazy persons , both old and young , who absent themselves from the service of God and profane the Sabbath Day ’ . |
| 24 | He did not look at the woman who passed him in the hallway . |
| 25 | Had the two friends discussed her in the way men probably did when they looked at a young woman who passed them in the street ? |
| 26 | His second followed good work on the right wing by Kelly , he played it infield to Hodge , who passed it along the ground to forresters feet … in the same sort of position as white for the 2nd goal … except facing the touchline . |
| 27 | Characters who make it to the top of the hill see a brilliant flash of sunlight , experience momentarily the scent of a summer day abundant with wild flowers and the taste of sweet wine and nectar- and then find themselves standing in a corridor , with their backs to the west wall , opposite the door to the scribe 's room ( location 59 ) . |
| 28 | There were three poor brothers living at that time who owned nothing in the world but one pear tree . |
| 29 | The picture passed to her son , John Whitney Payson , who lent it to a university museum in Maine with the intention of bequeathing it to the university in return for eventual tax relief on his estate . |
| 30 | Hodai told Rostov that the major-domo who met them in the antechamber of the palace was a N'pani , the only foreigner with any authority at the court . |