Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many board members reported being fascinated by recent developments , it was not uncommon to find those who failed to appreciate the amount of change since their own schooldays . |
| 2 | Some officers can now see that at the time they were " typical colonialists " who failed to read the signs of the tinies or entrust positions of authority more readily to African leadership . |
| 3 | Myo Nyunt in a speech on Aug. 15 , 1989 , accused traders who failed to cut the price of rice , meat and fish of " aiming at political and economic instability " . |
| 4 | Published by the International Development Research Centre ( IDRC ) in Canada , the papers were prepared by media theoreticians and practitioners from across the African continent who met to discuss the use of media to relay development information . |
| 5 | From the age of thirty , according to Foxe , he devoted his whole mind to the study of religion and he was a member of a group which included Tyndale , Coverdale and Latimer who met to discuss the writings of Luther and other Reformers at the White Horse Inn in Cambridge . |
| 6 | It was these northern gentry who became the model for those who sought to save the influence of the nobility by involving it in a movement for reform and economic progress . |
| 7 | Stephen Shepkey , an art restorer and professed gun dealer , was the man who helped organize the shooting of David Wilson . |
| 8 | However , in the battle which followed it was certainly Rodrigo who helped turn the tide of events for Sancho . |
| 9 | Eileen remembers Selina as a bubbly girl who helped to scrub the floors of the tourist office , made her own clothes and lived in a small cottage . |
| 10 | The newly opened Kirchner Museum in Davos is dedicated to the life and works of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , the German artist who helped draft the manifesto of the Die Brücke school in Berlin in 1905 . |
| 11 | Even Richard Crossman , who tried to abolish the House of Lords in the 1960s , was finally seduced : ‘ A fascinating place … undoubtedly the best club in London … |
| 12 | The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal both sent representatives , as did the Scottish emergency services who tried to rescue the men of flight XV 193 . |
| 13 | , Richard Austin ( 1862–1943 ) , detective-story writer , was born 11 April 1862 at 27 Thayer Street , in Marylebone , London , the youngest of five children ( four of them sons ) of Richard Freeman , a journeyman tailor who rose to become the manager of a bespoke tailoring business , and his wife Ann Maria Dunn . |
| 14 | Sebastian 's mother , Deborah , was the only person who seemed to suspect the disarray of Alix 's emotions . |
| 15 | In this conversation he cited the case of Montaigne : here was a man who seemed to understand the kind of world he was living in . |
| 16 | If necessary , he would send Sergeant Phyllis Henley , who seemed to understand the ways of the family , to sit outside the door in her car until Peter Fleming either came out or came home . |
| 17 | Carrick then destroyed the Somerset middle order and his next three wickets were all the result of fine catches by Sachin Tendulkar , who seemed to relish the challenge of fielding close to the bat at silly mid-off . |
| 18 | ‘ And what made her run his mother in to Dublin to change her wedding outfit , a woman , moreover , who 'd blackened the character of her beloved grandfather . ’ |
| 19 | In her first term at St Cecilia 's there 'd been a girl who 'd had the gift of levitation , a disturbed girl called Julie who had been able to float eight feet above the ground , whom Miss Scuse had eventually had to have removed . |
| 20 | Next day , Major patti arrived by plane , bringing Jean Sainteny who claimed to resume the authority of France . |
| 21 | When we find that the experience of unemployment makes people more likely to contemplate breaking an unjust law , we assume that the reasons for this are general ; we suppose that the increased likelihood would operate for anyone who happened to undergo the experience of unemployment . |
| 22 | Between 1882 and 1894 China was represented by an ambitious , astute official , Yuan Shih-k'ai , who worked to postpone the rise of Japanese authority in Korea . |
| 23 | Vladimir Ulyanov — who chose to use the name of ‘ Lenin'-had been exiled to Siberia in 1895 after he had founded a Union for the liberation of the working classes . |
| 24 | ALL of the leading Temps who gathered to witness the Earl of Carlisle opening their Institute in Gladstone Street on September 23 1903 were captured by a cameraman . |
| 25 | By contrast , here is a comment by an anthropologist who went to see the work of Mark Rothko . |
| 26 | The imperial presence was manifest : those who attended had the advantage of travelling on the imperial transport system ; the structure of the Council mirrored that of senatorial procedure , the 318 fathers ( a traditional number — actual attendance was more likely to have been about 250 ) gathered in a hall of the imperial palace ; Constantine spoke asking them to restore concord , and then left them to themselves . |
| 27 | The conference enabled voluntary organisations who attended to consider the implications of the review for them and their work . |
| 28 | It was originally founded as the Deaf Friends ' Club for the oral deaf who desired to have the opportunity of meeting together for social intercourse and mutual improvement . |
| 29 | The few feminists who did consider the problem of women 's domestic labour came up with a collectivist solution similar to that of Beveridge . |
| 30 | He was succeeded by Okuma Shigenobu , who re-negotiated to restrict the inclusion of foreign judges to the Supreme Court ; foreign approval for the new legal code was also waived . |