Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [be] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation , not just because they are doing so badly — but because they deserve to . |
| 2 | This could occur where a mistake is made by a junior doctor who has been required to work long hours because of his contract of employment and made the mistake through exhaustion . |
| 3 | The ANC president , Nelson Mandela , who has been ordered to take two weeks of complete rest in advance of the election campaign , arrived unexpectedly at the conference . |
| 4 | Their bodies were discovered when friends who 'd been trying to contact one of the women became worried and called the police . |
| 5 | I talked to the boy who 'd been trying to help this Frome — trying to get him to vomit it up , and so on . |
| 6 | So the guy who 'd been fired took one of the cars from the agency and he got on the wrong road ; they 'd forgotten about curfew , probably they were too drunk and they did n't stop when a South Vietnamese barrage challenged them . |
| 7 | The meeting , originally scheduled for Feb. 11-13 [ see p. 37945 ] , was jointly announced by Bush and Gorbachev on July 17 when they met in London during a brief visit by Gorbachev who had been invited to meet assembled heads of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) countries [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 8 | Sometimes he managed to abstract a page he particularly liked and take it home , He had a whole article on a young actress who had been asked to model some clothes . |
| 9 | Many is the time I have been able at my grandmother 's table to lick my fingers after eating a cream coronet upon a precedent established by good Queen Mary who had been observed doing such a thing by no less than my grandmother when visiting the big house . |
| 10 | They had hurt him again , killing el-Meshad in Paris in 1980 , and frightening off the Italian companies who had been engaged to deliver hot cell boxes . |
| 11 | The broker , Tunc Kunter , brought to London Mr Yenici and Mrs Hatice Anutkan , who had been left to raise two children alone and wanted money to meet debts . |
| 12 | It was just the sort of set-up that attracted Dustin , who had been itching to have more power over his films for some time . |
| 13 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |
| 14 | Were such matter to find its way into the domestic blue-film market , the Board argued , it could have a very real tendency to deprave and corrupt , not just those of 16 , but of any age , who had been encouraged to view such material in private . |
| 15 | There are often , among the competitors , girls from Eastern Bloc or otherwise under-privileged countries who have been brought up to believe that a monumental talent requires total dedication , who have been told that great minds do not fuss about small externals , who have been led to suppose that for a great genius to be a plain Jane is only appropriate . |
| 16 | Those doctors who have been trained to practise Ayurvedic medicine ( a traditional type of Indian medicine ) have been able to show that foods such as fresh vegetables , rice and pulses produce the clearest and most balanced mental state . |
| 17 | These are women holding on to the value of their tears , but there are many others who have been made to feel ashamed . |
| 18 | Indeed there are many highly intelligent children who are completely uninterested in the kinds of questions set at O or A level in English , questions about the choice of words in the sonnets of Keats or Jane Austen 's power of characterization , who have been set to read these texts with a view to answering such questions , and who are perhaps turned away from reading for ever by being required to embark on a specialized and academic study of literary criticism for which they are totally unsuited by taste , temperament , or ability . |