Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pron] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were welcomed by Guinness Brewing Worldwide Managing Director , who is chairman of the Guinness Group 's Pension Trust , and who told them of the latest developments at their former workplace . |
| 2 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 3 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 4 | It was me who warned you of the Fascist element infiltrating at Danino 's . |
| 5 | What was mocked was the arrogant superiority of the traditionally educated arts man who knew nothing of the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 6 | Those are the innocent victims , who knew nothing of the serious fraud . |
| 7 | For how could a reader who knew nothing of the original matter — the origin of the Silmarils , the rise and fall of Numenor , the triumphs and ultimate ruin of Gondolin , etc. — find a way in ? |
| 8 | We worked in a special class and at a cracking pace — with a man called Harris , who had none of the contemporary difficulties about aims and objectives . |
| 9 | The organization claimed membership from all parts of the South , and its membership contained education specialists , lawyers , people from the media , and civil servants , at least one of whom knew something of the existing channels of power and communication between church and state in the national school system . |