Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 2 | I was glad that I was n't one of those Portuguese or Italians who only had to go three hours without shaving for there to be a blue carpet on their chin . |
| 3 | One drawback of this style of argument is that not only is the harm serious for the victim , but conviction for such an offence is serious for the defendant : a single class of offenders ( rapists , serious wounders ) would contain not only those with subjective fault but also those who merely failed to take proper care , all of whom would be convict.ed of a grave offence carrying a maximum of life imprisonment . |
| 4 | He was another ‘ if only ’ character , who nevertheless had played several times in the Ryder Cup against the USA with distinction . |
| 5 | The older men , who still wanted to attend live games , learned to avoid either of the ‘ ends ’ , and with falling attendances there was no difficulty in finding a relatively safe place elsewhere in the ground . |
| 6 | The Democratic Congressmen and Senators , who yesterday scurried to give bi-partisan support to what looked like a patriotic pre-Christmas success , may be forced to think again if this drags on into a stand-off with American hostages in Noriega 's hands . |
| 7 | A few minutes before the start of the service , the girl s from three of the Godolphin Boarding Houses would arrive under the eagle eyes of several mistresses , who always seemed to wear stern expressions . |
| 8 | It will be particularly useful for early risers who once had to endure deafening music from Benidorm bars until the small hours . |
| 9 | As the number of patients who originally had had solitary stones was small , the difference does not reach statistical significance and this was also true when the analysis was based on the 26 patients who had recurrence diagnosed by oral cholecystectography or ultrasound , or both ( 14.5 ( 9.5 ) % for those who had had single stones and 46.4 ( 8.1 ) % for those with multiple stones : NS ) . |
| 10 | Doctors who regularly failed to meet local standards could not be disciplined by management , only by their peers . |
| 11 | That threat of invasion was , however , removed , in 1805 , by the great naval victory at Trafalgar , in which Horatio Nelson destroyed the French fleet at the cost of his own life , This was followed by General Arthur Wellesley — who later became the Duke of Wellington — leading British troops into the Spanish Peninsula against Napoleon , who then began to experience considerable defeats , not the least of which was his retreat from Moscow in the winter of 1812 , and the following year saw the Duke of Wellington taking the war into France culminating in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 , which brought about the final defeat of Napoleon . |
| 12 | There was not much evidence of regret among the writers who then decided to rewrite democratic theory in order to incorporate the central elitist proposition . |
| 13 | Work on the new roof on the Centre Court at Wimbledon , which will provide better viewing for at least 3,000 who previously had to peer round pillars , is reported to be ‘ ahead of schedule ’ for completion by the end of April . |
| 14 | Although Almond and Verba found few people in their survey who actually sought to exert such influence , the proportion who believed that they could exert influence was significant . |
| 15 | Or the fact that at secondary school , only the posh wimps played , the ones who actually liked wearing white trousers and rubbing leather balls up and down their groins . |
| 16 | Thus in the case of Morrison v Moat ( 1851 ) 9 Hare 241 when one partner communicated a secret recipe of the partnership to his son who subsequently sought to exploit that recipe for his own account , an injunction was granted to restrain him . |
| 17 | On the other hand , given the state of confusion in France and the fact that Thorez himself was in Moscow , it was not clear that the communist hierarchy was in a position to control communist maquisards , many of whom undoubtedly did have revolutionary aspirations . |