Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the early 1980s only a few thousand of the million or so who lived elsewhere in the USSR had been able to return , despite an active campaign on their behalf by dissidents as well as Tatar activists . |
| 2 | If anyone had prevented Elinor from being an oil executive , or a leading novelist and short-story writer , it was Elinor 's mother , a small , heavily built woman with a squint , who lived very near the Sellafield atomic reactor. principally because Elinor 's mother was completely without talent for anything apart from giving men a hard time and had , presumably , passed on her genes to her daughter . |
| 3 | The Jacobite cause fell and the indecisive Prince with it , but there were those who fought not for the Stuarts , but for their country . |
| 4 | The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas . |
| 5 | Those who came up from the Kinlochleven side may climb Am Bodach with the plan to turn east and do Na Gruagaichean , or carry on westwards for Stob Ban . |
| 6 | Puck Fair is a trio of accomplished Irish musical emigrants who came together in the United States to perform music which has been described as a unique fusion between the spontaneity of jazz and the driving rhythms of traditional Irish jigs , reels and hornpipes . |
| 7 | Liz Boatman , who played professionally in the States before being reinstated as an amateur , captains the side for a second time and is delighted at the way the growth of the pro circuit has revitalised the amateur game . |
| 8 | It was a demoralised Don Peters who drove away from The London Hilton and the all-American farewell party that had been laid on for him by Clancy McGillicuddy . |
| 9 | Yes , that 's Doug Veitch , self-styled king of Caledonian Cajun swing , who flourished briefly in the London drinking holes of the mid-'80s . |
| 10 | The Cutty Sark is now looked after by the Maritime Trust , who teamed up with the Cutty Sark Society in 1989 . |
| 11 | It had been Marcus who turned up at the Evans house on Saturday afternoon when Pascoe was there . |
| 12 | At first the numbers of those who tuned in to the BBC were modest in comparison to those who listened to Pétain 's homilies on Radio Vichy . |
| 13 | Latham , aged 57 , succeeds Joe Pickavance , who stepped down from the Knowsley Road chair a week ago for health reasons . |
| 14 | With a price tag of £415,000 , some of those who signed up for the XJ 220 are backing out , despite having paid a deposit of £50,000 . |
| 15 | In railway terms there were awkwardnesses ; all trains had to include goods and cattle as well as passengers ; sometimes it would be the cattle rather than the passengers who finished up opposite the Lydham Heath platform ; and in my grandmother 's day , Cadwallader had had on occasions to shout in broadest Shropshire to the driver ; ‘ hitch up the train a bit , Harry . |
| 16 | The issuing of the warrants were directly due to the testimony of key Mafia informers such as Tommaso Buscetta , who flew in from the USA to give testimony to a parliamentary anti-Mafia commission . |
| 17 | The four-year-old who flew home from the US on Thursday after her lifesaving liver and bowel transplant operation was awake bright and early . |
| 18 | CART ( Championship Auto Racing Teams Inc. ) was founded in 1978 by Roger Penske and " Pat " Patrick who broke away from the United States Auto Club ( USAC ) to form their own series of races . |
| 19 | Theresa Billington Greig , who broke away from the Pankhursts ' suffragette organisation , the Women 's Social and Political Union , over the issue of militant action , was virtually alone in criticising suffragists and suffragettes who regarded the home ‘ as an exemplar of what ought to be in the political world ’ . |
| 20 | It was founded in 1970 by two American Quaker couples in Vancouver , British Colombia , who fell out with the Sierra Club , the long-established American conservationist organization , over its cautious stand on nuclear power and its refusal to become involved in big international issues . |
| 21 | " It caused a little social outing in my family , " said a pitman 's daughter who grew up in the South Yorkshire pit village where her father worked . |
| 22 | Jack ‘ Kid ’ Berg , who grew up in the East End ghetto , fought his way up from the streets to a world welterweight title in the tradition of oppressed racial minorities . |
| 23 | David was a war-leader of the Israelites ( who looked rather like the Franks to Charlemagne ) , but he was also the builder of the Jerusalem Temple . |
| 24 | ( Nevertheless , there were some interesting differences between the group who felt that they had a ‘ training officer ’ and those who did not amongst the CRUS sample , further discussed in Chapter 5 . ) |
| 25 | Their arguments were supported by a former compositor " now in a position to place books for printing " , who wrote in to the Edinburgh Evening News in 1910 : " Generally speaking , I can get work done in London , as well as in the English provincial towns , under Edinburgh prices , which proves that even with female labour , the Edinburgh printers have a hard task to keep their men fully employed … |
| 26 | Stewart Hulse , team leader of the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team , has some harsh words for youth groups who set out onto the Lakeland Fells , determined to complete their objectives at all costs . |
| 27 | The teacher shows a genuine photograph of a group of people who travelled together on the Oregon trail . |