Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Mesozoic Committee ( who concerned themselves with such matters ) therefore found it impossible to accept the stratotype concept as it is usually proclaimed on the continent . |
| 2 | Clearly there can be no simple answer to such a question , but we need to appreciate that , until the eighteenth century , the speculative moral philosophers who concerned themselves with such issues did not have to bother about the practical implications of their argument . |
| 3 | He was a nice chap called Roland who entertained us with such finesse on his flute and oboe . |
| 4 | She eventually located an Immigration officer who led her through several corridors until they reached a locked red-painted door at the back of the airport building . |
| 5 | Now that those people have run up those enormous debts , where are the Labour Members of Parliament who led them into that position ? |
| 6 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 7 | He put himself into the hands of a psychiatrist who passed him to another psychiatrist , Leonard Browne . |
| 8 | His suppliers are old friends , like John McNutt in Donegal , who supplies him with soft lambswool tweeds . |
| 9 | For the one who encourages nothing but genuine feelings of peace , love and goodwill to all his fellow creatures , generally finds that peace and harmony follow him wherever he goes . |
| 10 | The two Longner men who rode one on either side their borrowed minstrel brought him as far as the gatehouse , waiting in silence as he dismounted . |
| 11 | He went on to attack scientists on both sides of the lead debate ‘ who ally themselves to political campaigns … |
| 12 | It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess . |
| 13 | His comments brought an angry response from the executive director of Scottish Financial Enterprise , James Scott , who described them as confused nonsense . |
| 14 | When Ken was in a bad mood or turned on people who regarded themselves as close friends , it was mostly a reaction to the way he saw himself — a failure to be what he wanted to be most . |
| 15 | He was a Georgian by birth ; did he , then , share the fierce nationalistic pride of his fellow-countrymen , or had his orphanage moulded him into one of the bland , rootless vegetables who regarded themselves as Soviet citizens ? |
| 16 | This idea inspired knights from France to flock to the assistance of the struggling Christian kingdoms in northern Spain ; but there was clearly a nice distinction between the attitude of men north of the Pyrenees , who regarded the Muslim as the wicked infidel , as cattle for the slaughter , and the Christians who had lived among them in Spain and who regarded them as misguided fellow-humans . |
| 17 | However , the whole Pierremont extravaganza was too much for ordinary people , and when Henry 's second wife Mary , who outlived him by 28 years , died in 1909 the estate was gradually sold off for housing . |
| 18 | THERE was a testing time in store for members of THORP 's Chemical Separation Process team who found themselves in hot water recently . |
| 19 | It is still with a sense of amazement at the flights of human inanity that Ruth Michaelis relates the experience of her brother Martin , who found himself in serious trouble with his foster family : |
| 20 | Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe . |
| 21 | Both were manned by a gentry proud of its local influence , provincial patriots who devoted themselves to improving roads and preserving historical monuments . |
| 22 | ‘ Who mentioned anything about brand-new Range Rovers ? ’ he enquired evenly . |
| 23 | After having a challenge for the domestic middleweight title demolished by Bunny Sterling who stopped him in eight rounds , Hope once more returned with a vigorous sequence of wins culminating in a challenge for the world light-middleweight title held by Eckhard Dagge in Berlin . |
| 24 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 25 | As many as half the New Yorkers who inject themselves with intravenous drugs may carry the AIDS virus ; in the Tacoma and Seattle area only about 10% of the addicts are infected . |
| 26 | I saw an excellent physiotherapist and a chiropractor who subjected me to some tests and found that the ratio between my hamstrings and my quadriceps was n't good enough . |
| 27 | J. C. Schetky who describes himself as marine painter in ordinary to Her Majesty has little good to say about Islay in " Sketches of notes of a Cruise in Scotch Waters on board His Grace the Duke of Rutland 's Yacht Resolution in the Summer of 1848 . " |
| 28 | J. C. Schetky who describes himself as marine painter in ordinary to Her Majesty has little good to say about Islay in " Sketches of notes of a Cruise in Scotch Waters on board His Grace the Duke of Rutland 's Yacht Resolution in the Summer of 1848 . " |
| 29 | But those who trap themselves inside nationalist thinking , which includes most political journalists and politicians in the UK , prefer not to reckon with the historical fact that most of recorded human history managed fairly well , indeed probably much better , without nationalism . |
| 30 | I said they would be noticed because you got a better response from people who put you in small groups feel there is less pressure on them . |