Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramos , a Protestant , was criticized on Feb. 18 by the influential ( Catholic ) Archbishop of Manila , Cardinal Jaime Sin , who attacked him as a former Marcos stooge and expressed his preference for Mitra , thus denting Ramos ' dwindling support within the LDP . |
| 2 | This was not an opinion , simply the Catholic moral teaching , he said at the funeral of Henry Babbington , shot dead on Wednesday by IRA men who mistook him for a loyalist terrorist . |
| 3 | THE STORY of the legendary Lawrence of Arabia has fascinated the media for many years , not least director David Lean , who made it into a famous feature film with Peter O'Toole in 1962 . |
| 4 | The appellant , who described himself as a self-employed accountant , falsely claimed to be an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a graduate or member of the Institute of Marketing . |
| 5 | Also on Beinn Bhan , Der Riesenwand was climbed by Roger Webb by the original line , and Robin Clothier by an accidental direct finish ( sorry , partners unknown ) , and Gully of the Gods by Robin Beadle and Martin Moran , who described it as a superb but straightforward grade V. |
| 6 | And a women who described herself as a social worker . |
| 7 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
| 8 | Often it was relatives or friends of us permanents , who used it as a temporary place to stay on arrival until they found bedsits or whatever . |
| 9 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 10 | In fact , it was an ‘ A ’ team player who helped them towards a good victory over highly placed Malshanger on Wednesday last week . |
| 11 | The seat had been Tory since 1970 and had been held since 1974 by Sir Charles , who retained it with a sizeable personal vote . |
| 12 | Those who dismissed him as a third-rate actor failed to recognize his ability as a political campaigner . |
| 13 | Louis pushed his plate away from him , took the chop bone and tossed it to the springer who caught it with a single sharp snap . |
| 14 | Birmingham born , Graham Tiso left school to work for Cadbury 's , the confectioners , who provided him with a sound overall business training . |
| 15 | Without a word , Lucenzo offered her a jug of coffee and flicked a quick finger at the alert barman , who provided her with a fresh cup . |
| 16 | But she had only been there four months when she fell prey to supervisor Brian McConville who subjected her to a harrowing sexual harassment ordeal . |
| 17 | Yells of triumph and foot stomping attracted the attention of the manager , who attracted ours with a long cane . |
| 18 | ‘ WAS IT ONE OF THEM IN-DEPTH things you have to really think about ? ’ asked the cabbie who drove me from A Hard Heart . |
| 19 | The 20-year-old was collected from the prison in Durham by relatives who drove her to a secret destination . |
| 20 | A well-established tradition holds owners to be morally entitled to their property where they have obtained it by way of an uncoerced transfer from someone who received it in a similar manner , subject to the property having been originally taken into private ownership by a legitimate process of acquisition . |
| 21 | The police response to Black women and racist attacks is determined by the same factors which affect their response to racist attacks generally : Failure to recognise racial violence/attacks as such and to act accordingly ; delays in their response to a call for help from victims of racial violence ; refusal to recognise the seriousness of a racist attack , and if arrests are made , only the minimum of charges are imposed ; avoiding responsibility for dealing with cases involving racist attacks — by advising victims to pursue civil action through the courts ; the subjecting of those who are victims of racial violence to further racial abuse ; the criminalisation of victims of racist attacks e.g. in Bradford , Newham and only recently two cases from Hounslow one involving 5 boys from Lampton School who defended themselves in a racial attack and were arrested and charged by the police . |
| 22 | The death at the weekend of Siho Iyiguven , who threw himself on a burning mattress at Harmondsworth detention centre , near Heathrow , was followed yesterday with further suicide threats by detainees who barricaded themselves into their dormitory . |
| 23 | ‘ It was my father who encouraged me as a high jumper . |
| 24 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 25 | At one point , towards the end of the seventeenth century , the church was possessed by Daniel Disney who turned it into a Presbyterian Meeting House but by 1812 it was back in the hands of the Church of England again . |
| 26 | The four men — Talb , aged 35 , Marten Imandi , and two brothers , Mustafa and Mahmoud Mougrabi — were known to the intelligence services , who linked them with a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command ( PFLP-GC ) cell working in Frankfurt and Neuss . |
| 27 | Hawks could n't afford to repair the aircraft and after a long rest in the hangar , it was bought by Ed Connerton who rebuilt it as a two-seat military aircraft registered NX2491 . |
| 28 | Freud 's theory was taken up by the French structuralist , Claude who developed it into a cultural determinist theory , which said that er , animals commit incest , human beings do n't . |
| 29 | Concrete had long been utilized as a bonding and covering material but it was the Romans who developed it as a structural one . |
| 30 | As they walked he offered her his arm , unlike most punters , who followed her at a discreet distance . |