Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 2 | A court has been told that a teenager who attacked a wheelchair-bound pensioner in his own home was high on the drug Ecstasy . |
| 3 | SCOT Colin Montgomerie , who produced a disappointing performance in the Moroccan Open , is also facing a possible £1,000 fine for bringing the European PGA Tour into disrepute . |
| 4 | And Hateley , frozen out of the England scene , but who produced a high-quality display in Rangers ' 1-0 European Cup win against CSKA Moscow on Wednesday , said last night : ‘ I think Gary Lineker was quite right to criticise Graham Taylor . |
| 5 | He , and his twin brother James , who became a successful farmer in Logie in Aberdeenshire , were the second and third of the five children of Alexander Gordon , tenant farmer of Miltown of Drum . |
| 6 | From 1841 her childhood was spent near the centre of Manchester , though her father , who became a senior partner in his Manchester shipping firm , prospered and was in 1855 able to move to the far more select area of Whalley Range . |
| 7 | The resulting expansion in business necessitated the formation of a partnership with his young associate Guy Green , who became a full partner in 1763 . |
| 8 | MR ALAN BOND , the London-born tycoon who became an Australian hero in 1983 when he won the America 's Cup yacht race , was declared bankrupt yesterday . |
| 9 | He ended up in the village of Hampole near Doncaster , where he became the spiritual director of the local anchoress Margaret Kirkby , who lived a solitary life in a cell next to the Church , and the nuns of the enclosed Cistercian convent . |
| 10 | Former England skipper Wilkins , who partnered a young Durrant in midfield for a season , championed the youngster 's cause long before he came back from injury . |
| 11 | But this time it went wrong and Ms Kennedy , who plays a republican activist in the drama , had to receive treatment for an eye injury . |
| 12 | Steve Biko , a brave and remarkable man who met a tragic death in the course of a patriotic struggle : this is the very stuff of opera . |
| 13 | Maureen Ruchardson , who made a similar appearance in the B is for Book exhibition at the Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead , continues to cook and beat the fibres of local plants to provide us with hand-made paper . |
| 14 | BIG LEAP * , who made a successful reappearance in a 21-runner field at Doncaster last month , is napped to follow up in today 's Stroud Green Handicap ( 4.10 ) at Newbury . |
| 15 | Pinto , who made a winning debut in Carpi , Portugal , in 1991 , and had led his club Benfica to the European Cup , had always been at the front among a big group early on . |
| 16 | Milne — who made a brief appearance in the game against Wombats — has done a grand job getting sponsorship from , among others , Royal Mail Scotland , while the luminaries he has persuaded to play include Roger Baird , Finlay Calder , Jim Calder , Jim Aitken , Euan Kennedy , Alan Tomes and Jim Renwick . |
| 17 | We were all sorry to hear of the death of Richard Holt , who made a big mark in this House and put Langbaurgh on the map . |
| 18 | The Club on the other hand has been stripped of the non-essentials — who needs a luxury interior in a training environment ? |
| 19 | Earlier yesterday Mr Denktash , who heads a breakaway state in the north recognised only by Ankara , invited Mr Clerides to meet him in Cyprus and said holding talks in New York would be futile . |
| 20 | These ideas were refined in the late 1940s by Hebb and Konorski , who proposed a coincidence-detection rule in which the synapse linking two cells is strengthened if the cells are active at the same time . |
| 21 | Where there is no trust beneficiary who has a beneficial interest in possession in the property , of course , some other way of fixing the rate has to be found ; and in the case of Gartside v IRC ( 1968 ) AC 553 the House of Lords has held that where there was a discretionary trust with a power to accumulate income , the interest of the group of beneficiaries did not constitute an ‘ interest in possession ’ for the purposes of estate duty . |
| 22 | When the mild-mannered and bespectacled Sumner , who has a nice line in polo-neck jumpers , enters the local pub , they look upon him with suspicion , just like a stranger entering a saloon bar in a Western . |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , who has a great interest in education , spoke for a long time , as did other hon. Members on both sides of the House . |
| 24 | These impressions he/she could perhaps spell out , verbalizing them for the benefit of the student and anyone else who has a legitimate interest in knowing how the student is seen by people close to him/her . |
| 25 | What about the member of staff who has a poor reputation in the community ? |
| 26 | ‘ If you 're not technical , it 's very impotant to buy through someone who has a vested interest in supporting you , ’ says managing director Tony Gamble . |
| 27 | A family of cow doctors worked in this region for over three centuries ; this family is now represented by Dr John Walker , who has a veterinary practice in Hook Norton , near Long Compton . |
| 28 | Elaine Fullard from Oxford , who has been influential in developing the role of nurse facilitators for prevention in primary care , and Anita Berlin from St Mary 's Medical School , who has a particular interest in teaching communication skills , have also been to Brazil as part of the programme . |
| 29 | Dr Jordan , who has a one-man practice in Minehead , Somerset , said : |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman , who has a special interest in this matter , must be aware that the first information on the Iraqi contract came through a leaked letter and not directly from UKAEA . |