Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | DOG SAVES WOMAN : Alsatian saved 27-year-old woman ower by biting man who attacked her with a knife . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Whether dining in the glittering salons of Mayfair or ministering to the sick in Yorkshire or Somerset , Smith reduced all who met him to a state of breathless mirth . |
| 9 | The forerunner of the ‘ mile-high club ‘ , for those who have coupled in an aircraft in flight , was the nineteenth-century fraternity who made it in a railway carriage . |
| 10 | Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations . |
| 11 | However , his denials were rejected by Barnard who described himself as a scapegoat and claimed that there was " a cover-up going on from ministerial level down " . |
| 12 | And a man who described himself as an animal right activist , but insisted that he should n't be idenfied , watched today 's court case closely . |
| 13 | Caroline Moore , who described herself as a professor of dance , occupied number 1 . |
| 14 | Fry said his farewells to the players who regarded him as a father figure before heading for home in Bedford a devastated man . |
| 15 | The wolves were hunted to extinction in the 1920s , at the request of ranchers who regarded them as a threat to cattle . |
| 16 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a feature of the Wallasey landscape but unpopular with some local residents who regarded them as an eyesore and the cause of television reception problems . |
| 17 | Of course , there also appear to have been a good number of people who regarded her as an eccentric or a ‘ mope ’ . |
| 18 | Ernie , who regarded himself as an expert with horses , had never at any time reassessed his skills . |
| 19 | The prediction of its heliacal rising after inferior conjunction , that is , its first reappearance as ‘ the morning star ’ after a period of invisibility , was of vital concern to the Maya , who regarded it as a moment of particular dread . |
| 20 | The devotion of the people of Dijon to an obscure tomb in one of the cemetries outside the town was frowned on by the local bishop , Gregory of Langres , who regarded it as an act of pagan superstition . |
| 21 | Manoon 's rehabilitation had enraged Class 5 graduates from Chulachomklao ( led by the current Army C.-in-C. , Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon ) who regarded it as an attempt to reduce their position of dominance . |
| 22 | In the early 1900s possession passed from the Walsingham family to the Gunters who used it as a country home . |
| 23 | The report was put in the papers by a former professional named Martin who used it as an advertisement for his shop . ’ |
| 24 | In particular , women who found themselves without a source of male economic support-widows , deserted wives and unmarried mothers — tended to end up drawing poor relief . |
| 25 | His injuries were so severe his own father who found him near a railway footbridge at Didcot Parkway did n't recognise him . |
| 26 | Blessed by God the eternal mystery creator of the universe heavens of human kind the almighty who loves us with a mother 's love the everlasting one who holds us as children to his cheeks Glory |
| 27 | But his looks were only a part of it ; it was the man himself who drew her like a magnet , his mind , his character , his spirit , whatever made him him . |
| 28 | There , she is befriended by Stoney , a sexy rock ‘ n ’ roller who rescues her from a world of LSD that she has dropped into . |
| 29 | Lisa was apparently introduced to James Gilbey by her agent 's assistant , Catrina Skepper who invited her to a weekend party in North Yorkshire . |
| 30 | The driver of the police car purchased two packets of Kent and threw one pack to his friend who caught it without a pause in his speech to Signe , then saluted , and both policemen got into the Porsche . |