Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used his handsome appearance to seduce an ogress who bore him three dreadful children , FENRIR the Wolf , the Midgard Snake and HEL , all of whom caused travail to the other gods . |
| 2 | Lyall , who piloted Town to the Second Division Championship in only his second season , said : ‘ Ipswich came to me out of the blue and brought me back into management . |
| 3 | He was an editor in Shell Mex house and a frequent visitor to Germany , who entertained members of the nazi party when they visited this country in the 1930s . |
| 4 | Hunt for mole who revealed plans of the Royal bedrooms |
| 5 | Many hundreds of thousands of trade unionists were among those who became shareholders for the first time . |
| 6 | He replaced Enrique Román Hernández who became head of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television ( in place of Ismael González González ) . |
| 7 | One of two new ministers of state , José Ignacio Moreno Leon , who became president of the Venezuelan Investment Fund , was also a COPEI politician ( and , like Calderón Bertí , a former Minister of Petrol ) . |
| 8 | This was the man who became President of the National Deaf Club in 1909 and held the position for over thirty years . |
| 9 | And we must not discount those who became converts to the new religion , whether on account of the superiority of its miracles — especially its apparently superior powers of healing — or of its doctrine or the example of those who taught it . |
| 10 | Easy going and charming , he made friends easily ; adventurous and audacious , his exploits brought both fame and notoriety during his lifetime ; intelligent but irresponsible , he made and squandered a fortune in a few years ; all in all , he was an eccentric who lived life to the full . |
| 11 | As though he was a man who lived life to the full , and basically did n't care overmuch for what anyone else thought about him . |
| 12 | RUGBY UNION : David Sole , who led Scotland to the Grand Slam in 1990 , is to retire later this year . |
| 13 | Word had quickly got round that at the Marne , in contrast to the generals of the Plaza-Toro breed , who led attacks from the various Chateaux of France , Pétain had moved up into the front line when the infantry quailed under the German shells . |
| 14 | Turania , an area of East Turkistan , now one of the Central Provinces of the USSR situated between Afghanistan and the Caspian Sea , spawned , it appears , gifted stone-masons , and at the request of the Emperor Asoka who ruled India during the third century BC , the Naga named Mahakala produced colossal images of Guatama Buddha and his two predecessors . |
| 15 | As Eisenman demonstrates , the legitimacy of the high priesthood — of Zadok or of the Zadok — was resuscitated by the Maccabeans , the last dynasty of Judiac kings , who ruled Israel from the second century B.C. until Herodian times and the Roman occupation . |
| 16 | But , with that unpredictability which makes biology such a fascinating science , it was some biochemists interested in nutrition who laid foundations for the next major advance in the treatment of cancer . |
| 17 | He never missed an opportunity to criticise the new ruck/maul laws and he had an absolute right to do so — because it is he who has found ways to minimise their dreadful effect , because he was never one of those coaches who sought refuge under the old laws , and because he is the finest coach in the world by results , demeanour and inspiration . |
| 18 | The region around Chimoio is swollen by 400,000 people who sought refuge from the civil war . |
| 19 | Those charged were Erich Honecker , the former East German leader who sought refuge in the Chilean embassy in Moscow in December 1991 [ see pp. 38687-88 ; 38782 ] ; Erich Mielke , former head of the Stasi — secret police ; Willi Stoph , former Prime Minister ; Heinz Kessler , former Defence Minister ; Fritz Streletz , Kessler 's deputy ; and Hans Albrecht , SED chief in the town of Suhl . |
| 20 | He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up . |
| 21 | During 1686 and 1687 , it was once again representatives of this English Protestant opinion who made overtures to the leading political champion of European Protestantism , the Dutch stadtholder William of Orange , for help in opposing the Catholic policies of James II . |
| 22 | I found it preoccupied by a little company of artists , either professional or amateur , who made use of the rainy day by camping in the coach-house to sketch from its shelter a fine group of trees , with some good foreground rock and bracken , all within a stone-throw of the cottage . |
| 23 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 24 | Eva knew a man on the local paper , the same co-operative journalist who got Charlie on the front page of the Bromley and Kentish Times , and he interviewed Dad . |
| 25 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 26 | He was one of several noted British artists approached for work by John M. Gates , Director of Design to the American firm , Steuben Glass , and who visited London in the early 1950s . |
| 27 | He was the priest who visited patients at the private hospital on the hill . |
| 28 | One such was the Duke of Richmond who found Sussex in the 1740s in the midst of what a number of local historians have rightly described as a ‘ guerilla war ’ . |
| 29 | The great Croat writer , the late Miroslav Krleža , in his Ballade Petrice Kerempuha , written in the kajkavski dialect of the Zagreb region , was one of many who drew inspiration from the terrible events of 1573 . |
| 30 | Nobody has responded more positively to Newcastle United 's desperate plight than the striker who drew blanks on the big stage with West Ham and huffed-and-puffed little more than powder puff stuff at Leicester . |