Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now an acting sergeant , he had a platoon of forty men to prepare for battle , all of whom still came under the overall command of Captain Trentham , who had n't been seen since the day Tommy had been released . |
| 2 | He raised his hand as if to strike Frankie , who instinctively recoiled into the rough safety of his nanny s overcoat . |
| 3 | Some of the original brigadistas , the young literacy teachers , who mostly came from the urban areas , also continued to work in adult education , and others became teachers in the formal school system . |
| 4 | The A&R depts that we dealt with when last I was in a band ( about 18 months ago ) all seemed to consist of young men in Armani suits and long raincoats , who only stayed for the first four numbers then left . |
| 5 | In about 1895 the trade began to raise the popular image of the ‘ undertaker ’ from being a person who merely disposed of the dead to a funeral director whose main object is service to the public . |
| 6 | The Gedge boy , who apparently spied on the entire population of Dynmouth , had no doubt seen him . |
| 7 | One librarian who still clung to the old ideals remarked : |
| 8 | Unlike the exercise described in Chapter 10 , the team did not include representatives from the parent organisation ( ie the County Council ) , a deliberate omission to avoid the results being conditioned by the knowledge or views of internal analysts , who nonetheless assisted with the general arrangements and administration . |
| 9 | Clifford Allen , who quickly emerged as the political and spiritual leader of the movement , saw in the collapse of the Second International : |
| 10 | Dr Clarke , a retired headmaster who once stood as the Liberal candidate for Edinburgh Pentlands , is a prominent member of the far right . |
| 11 | The bump readers , who once moved among the great and the good , are almost gone ; though a handful of practitioners are still living , phrenology is officially dead . |
| 12 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 13 | Rush , who also played in the thrilling victory over Auxerre , is hoping a packed Anfield will roar Liverpool into the European Cup Winners ' Cup quarter-finals . |
| 14 | It is a tall order for someone so new to the professional ranks , but one which could never be construed as being beyond a competitor who , as an amateur , tied for second place behind Greg Norman in the Australian Masters at Huntingdale at the start of this season and who also finished in the top 10 in the English Open at The Belfry . |
| 15 | They could successfully compete with the true mammals who also evolved in the late Triassic ( and who also acquired the upright gait shortly after the archosaurs ) . |
| 16 | On Jan. 1 Bhanu Pratap Singh resigned as Governor of Karnataka and was replaced by Khurshid Alam Khan , governor of Goa , who also remained in the latter post . |
| 17 | Pytheas , who probably lived in the fourth century , does not seem to have travelled inside Gaul . |
| 18 | If there was a black kid and a white kid with equal qualifications who both went for the same job , I would have to put my money on the white kid getting the job , because we 're in a white-dominated society . |
| 19 | Teesside Crown Court heard how Crook , 19 , and Davies , 21 , who both lived at the nine storey tower block , made a complete mess of the home improvements they were trying to do . |
| 20 | There is no doubt they deserved the points after pushing title favourites Galleywood and Stock — who both won for the third time this season on Saturday — so close in their last two matches . |
| 21 | Frances Young was a university lecturer who later went into the Methodist Ministry . |
| 22 | Septimus Hird , 17 , who ironically lived in the Green Tree Inn , Skinnergate , won but before his design was built he drowned while bathing at Redcar . |
| 23 | In the weeks that followed , the teleprinter messages from Barashevo were to become familiar reading to the official who now hobbled on the built-up shoe that supported his club foot towards his filing cabinets . |
| 24 | A consequence had been the loss of some of the not-so-bright children of local tradespeople or farmers ( who now looked to the independent schools ) , and some alleged decline in the social standing of the school within the town . |
| 25 | Nobody helped her beyond the poor sad girl at the library to whom she was kind and who now bounded about the romantic fiction section for her , feverishly pulling down titles she thought Kitty would like . |
| 26 | A year head who originally came from the secondary modern school at the time of reorganisation had this to say on the status of the school : |
| 27 | But his self-confidence was dented by one salty , working-class Edinburgh councillor , who loudly opined to the great impresario , ‘ This city can always find the cash to powder its nose : but we forget to wipe our bottom ! ’ |
| 28 | Or , the Doctrine of the Sabbath ( 1649 ) ; the licence in this case granted by Joseph Caryl , a divine who frequently preached before the Long Parliament . |
| 29 | The institutes of higher education and jurisprudence established in the early nineteenth century began to train a small number of highly competent officials who consciously broke with the haphazard approach of the past . |
| 30 | Once the best you could hope for was a 50-year-old prima ballerina who sometimes starred at the local opera house . |