Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I was intimidated by the extravagance , ’ said Anne , who had never even contemplated the possibility of Dustin 's becoming a movie star , an occupation she then professed to despise . |
| 32 | The author of the Life of Wilfrid , who represents Wilfrid as persuading the king and queen to accept the word of God and as preaching to a people who had never before heard the Gospel , undoubtedly exaggerates the paganism of the southern Saxons , for Bede reveals from non-Wilfridian sources , first , that Aethelwealh had married a Christian princess and had been baptized himself and , second , that a number of ealdormen and thegns had likewise received baptism , with the priests , Eappa , Padda , Burghelm and Aeddi ministering to the common people either at the time of Aethelwealh 's conversion or subsequently ( HE IV , 13 ) . |
| 33 | Tug skippers , who had never before acknowledged the presence of the moored barges , called out , or gave the danger signal — live rapid blasts in succession . |
| 34 | The post-1950 returnees were joined by some who had never before left the villages . |
| 35 | She who had long since learned the necessary control to hide her feelings was about to suffer the greatest humiliation of all , the fall of angry tears which would betray her sensitivity , leaving her naked and vulnerable before this man whom she had begun to trust … åd his friends … |
| 36 | But Fenella , who had twice now seen the terrible hooded and cloaked shape creep up on her , thought that the Robemaker was not here . |
| 37 | Momoh , who had hitherto firmly rejected the demand that legislative elections in May should be held on a multiparty democratic basis , suddenly announced on March 28 that he welcomed the proposal that Sierra Leone should become a multiparty democracy . |
| 38 | The position is vacant following the resignation of Dick Corden , leaving only John Brockbank and Richard Tonks on the board , who have both yet to serve a full season . |
| 39 | The transformation of Britain that has taken place in the past 13 years is too readily taken for granted by some of those who have most richly reaped the rewards : the new home owners , the new share-holders , the employees freed from the shackles of militant trade unionism , the NHS patients who have felt the benefits of fund-holding GPs and self-administered hospitals , parents who have witnessed their children thrive in grant-maintained schools . |
| 40 | While their challenge was clearly the most serious to have been presented to President Ceausescu , and was made with the full knowledge of important facts , it was also made by people who have long since left the political scene , mainly having retired , or been retired — prematurely — by Mr Ceausescu . |
| 41 | QEB considered a report on the school teacher fellowship scheme , noted the successful outcome of the work of the two fellows who have so far held the post and welcomed the external sponsorship that had been attracted . |
| 42 | He is the embodiment of a restaurateur 's nightmare , someone who behaves grotesquely yet spends an awful lot of money . |
| 43 | The creditors , many of whom had once eagerly asked the Reichmann brothers to grace their boards as directors , now sat grim , hostile and stony faced . |