Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another winner at the weekend was the Oxfordshire based rider David O'Connor who rode home to take the big prize at the British Open Horse Trials at Gatcombe Park . |
| 2 | Another winner at the weekend was the Oxfordshire based rider David O'Connor who rode home to take the big prize at the British Open Horse Trials at Gatcombe Park . |
| 3 | Among the individuals who benefited were 130 senior Bear Stearns executives , including the chief executive Ace Greenberg , who has openly criticised the proposed ‘ excessive pay ’ deduction limit . |
| 4 | Gordon , who has already noted the novel view of Langdale spread beneath us , starts exhuming his camera from his sack . |
| 5 | A clinician who has written extensively on this topic is Anthony , who has also discussed the implied association between psychosis and creativity . |
| 6 | ‘ My God , ’ she said , sounding a bit like a vicar who has just discovered the Third World , ‘ this makes one 's own problems seem pretty small , does n't it ? ’ |
| 7 | Charles , who has just failed the first year of a law degree and is hard up , put up a notice on the fence : " Danger — Keep Out — No Liability Accepted . " |
| 8 | Piper , 26 , has been beaten only once in his 18-fight career , when he strayed 7lb above the super-middleweight limit and conceded an additional 10lb to Manchester 's Karl Thompson , who has since won the British cruiserweight title . |
| 9 | But it can also give deep satisfaction to have this opportunity of showing love and concern for someone who is close and who has probably shown the same care for us . |
| 10 | We were also glad to see 82-year-old Wally ‘ Left Hand Down ’ Perkins who has selflessly devoted the past 33 years to the unpaid unofficial work of guiding people reversing into the bays in a car park in Ipswich . |
| 11 | Before she can eat , Snow White assumes the authorial voice , insisting that the other characters are her inventions , and that it is she who has always held the real power . |
| 12 | The idea is the personal initiative of Eddy Ryder , HM Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations , who has now persuaded the Vienna-based UN organisation , the International Atomic Energy Agency , to co-ordinate the arrangements . |
| 13 | No sailor who has ever crossed the tropical Pacific at the right season will forget the idyll of the passage . |
| 14 | And anyone who has ever seen the devastating effects of alcohol addiction on the alcoholic , his or her friends and family will understand only too well the dramatic and destructive influence it can have on the lives of all concerned . |
| 15 | These African developments owe much to an American entrepreneur who has personally provided the necessary technology transfer and opened up new possibilities for breaking old structures of trade that were dominated by the large producers in developed countries . |
| 16 | A daughter ( or more rarely a son ) who has never left the parental home , or who has returned after widowhood or divorce to stay on indefinitely to care for an elderly parent or parents , does not make this choice automatically . |
| 17 | As Figure 5.4 shows , for example , 6 per cent of elderly households include an elderly married couple with another adult , often a son or daughter who has never left the parental home , and 3 per cent contain two or more elderly , non-married people . |
| 18 | Colette works at marshalling our feelings of revulsion at this voracious creature who has almost killed the poor box thorn . |
| 19 | Morgan remembers him as a ‘ breath of fresh air ’ as a manager who single handedly rejuvenated the Scottish team with his incredible ability to motivate players . |
| 20 | There were peoples in the empire — the Masai , pre-eminently , were one , and the Bedouin Arabs were shortly to be another — who seemed instinctively to possess the right combination of self-respect and pragmatic acceptance of the facts of British power . |
| 21 | As stated repeatedly in this book , there is no real evidence that such an able and well-endowed ‘ god ’ , beyond human influence , has ever existed , and those who teach otherwise perpetuate the induced temptation to abandon personal responsibility . |
| 22 | Westrail wish to extend special thanks to Alun Rees , C.M.E. of the Severn Valley Railway and his team of craftsmen who worked unstintingly to complete the new boiler in time for this year 's season . |
| 23 | Although Carr produced the most sustained attack on the assumptions of Idealism , it was Hans Morgenthau who did most to popularize the new approach of Realism . |
| 24 | Instead it was Andy Roxburgh 's new kid on the block , Eoin Jess , who did most to bring the young supporters out of their seats . |
| 25 | The sort of man who wishes only to shift the political future of his country . |
| 26 | If you wish to venture northwards you can discover beaches , such as Cala Vinas , a bustling resort 3km away , and see the luxurious villas of the rich and famous who come here to sample the many and varied pleasures on offer . |
| 27 | Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands . |
| 28 | Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands . |
| 29 | They 're the ones who 've really got the blue boat in fine tune . |
| 30 | A local builder , probably the same man who had just built the beautiful house of Newton Ferrers , created this simple masterpiece in the local sea-grey basaltic stone , mixed with silvery granite from the moor up over the hill to the north . |