Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pron] [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held talks with his Malaysian counterpart , Mahathir Mohamed , who announced his support for Vietnamese membership of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 2 | Muni 's interest , however , would have come to nothing if there were not men at the studios who shared his enthusiasm for this potentially explosive subject . |
| 3 | He was thinking big , and thinking big meant a huge readership — a paper like the Mirror , to be read in equally large numbers by ordinary people who shared his contempt for organized politics . |
| 4 | The subjects were 20 Japanese patients with gastric ulcers ( 15 men and five women , aged 49 ( 13 ) years ) who visited our hospital for gastroendoscopic examination . |
| 5 | Cheers : Johan Egelstedt toasts his victory with Greville Janner , the local MP who championed his fight for equal status with female au pairs |
| 6 | John Reid took the honours on Captain Horatius , who confirmed his liking for soft ground by stretching away by four lengths from Half A Tick . |
| 7 | A man who lost his agency for imported electronic equipment , for example , did not praise nationalization of the import business . |
| 8 | Although Rowlands , who resigned his presidency for seven days in the bloody aftermath of this summer 's centenary tour to South Africa , was happy to lay the issue to rest last night , the debris of the affair is still apparent throughout Welsh rugby . |
| 9 | POLICE have spoken by telephone with the man who left his girlfriend for dead after a car crash in Cleveland . |
| 10 | Discredited and abused , the Junta retreated before the French , first to Seville , then to Cadiz : there its members resigned , to be insulted by the ‘ patriots ’ of Cadiz who searched their baggage for stolen government funds and finally imprisoned them . |
| 11 | Bill Brown , who carried his bat for 206 not out through Australia 's innings in the 1938 Lord 's Test , celebrates his 80th birthday on July 31 . |
| 12 | President Mengistu Haile Mariam , who misruled his country for 14 years , fled on May 21st to Zimbabwe , where his retreat was prepared . |