Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franjo Greguric , formerly the Deputy Prime Minister , was appointed Prime Minister of Croatia on July 18 in succession to Josip Manolic who became head of a new war cabinet in the republic . |
| 2 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 3 | The old woman sat silently gathering the strands : the young girl who had known the pain of longing ; the rich , beautiful and ambitious young woman who , despite two suitable marriages , continued to be pursued by longing ; and the older woman , who found happiness with a poor drunken sot from her father 's stables at Tjele . |
| 4 | Another great Therapy ? story revolves around a character called Eddie Faith , who found religion at a Christian meeting one night , and the next day walked into the local police station and confessed to 24 robberies he 'd committed in the previous year . |
| 5 | An actress who found fame in a commercial for Volkswagen cars has been banned from driving after being caught speeding twice in the space of thirteen minutes . |
| 6 | The really heroic man was the one who practised chastity as a young man . |
| 7 | This provided cover for a uniformed gunman who opened fire with a sub-machine gun , hitting Boudiaf in the back and the head . |
| 8 | Data from the 1985 GHS provides at least a partial answer to this question by providing information about who helped those older people who required assistance with a whole variety of adl tasks . |
| 9 | A WOMAN who fell victim to a cruel conman estimated to have swindled more than £1m is warning other people not to be taken in . |
| 10 | Farmers who stored food from a good harvest were shot for hoarding . |
| 11 | It was a dead time of day in Loxford , with only a handful of people out in their gardens — she would have to have the usual shouted conversation with Mr Biddle among his brassica stumps , and a whispered one with Mrs Eddoes , who treated life as a giant conspiracy — and nobody in the shop or on the green . |
| 12 | ‘ A lot of things brought it on , but I guess Elise Burgin 's mother being killed in a car accident definitely catapulted me further into that stage , ’ said Pam , who saw tennis in a different perspective after her life-long friend 's mother died in the spring of 1989 . |
| 13 | There were those like Hopkins who saw legislation as a growing sign of the improved moral climate in the country and its changing attitude towards women . |
| 14 | Diehard opinions ranged from the virulent obscurantism of Northumberland , Page Croft and Cooper , who saw politics as a black-and-white struggle between good British imperial-minded Christians and Jewish-dominated marxist wreckers , to the high-minded Association of Independent Peers , who were primarily concerned with the effect of coalition on the standards of public life and its failure to halt the drift towards class politics . |
| 15 | Presidential sources said Gen Eyadema , who seized power in a 1967 coup , had been at his quarters at the base during the attack . |
| 16 | Those who feared attack from a duppy would sprinkle tobacco seed in its path as a sure method of repulsion . |
| 17 | Some 60 per cent of Conservative MPs who took part in a recent Gallup survey thought standards would fall , not improve , if these changes took place . |
| 18 | Other Scout and Guide movements were established at Leicester , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Liverpool , Coventry and in Glasgow which produced the first deaf Senior Scout in George Scott who took part in a Grand Rally of Senior Scouts at Ibrox Park which was inspected by the Duke of Windsor in 1931 . |
| 19 | Heads it 's Spring … a lovely display of Easter bonnets from just a few of the 25 children who took part in a magnificent parade at the Sally Ann Playgroup , Amery Street , Alton on Friday morning . |
| 20 | The human mother who gave birth to a deformed , bestial hybrid would dote on it blindly , as protective as a tiger of her cub , and as cunning . |
| 21 | The Brigade Major , who spoke English with a thick German accent , reined in beside Sharpe . |
| 22 | Recently I met a speechreader who was struggling to understand a lady who spoke English with a French accent . |
| 23 | The report , published in 1991 , uncovered statistical evidence that children who spoke English as a second language were heavily over-represented in the two most acute categories of special needs schools in the region 's Glasgow district . |
| 24 | I was very grateful — for the company , chiefly , though I found conversation difficult with M and Mme Feigelson , who spoke French with a heavy Russian accent . |
| 25 | Three signers were presented as illustrations : a deaf man ( signer 1 ) , a hearing man with eight years ' experience ( signer 2 ) and a hearing man whose parents were deaf and who learned BSL as a first language ( signer 3 ) . |
| 26 | Dr Michael Moore of Glasgow University showed that mothers who drank water with a high lead level were twice as likely to have mentally retarded babies ; 61 per cent of mothers involved in stillbirths or whose foetuses were abnormal had placental lead levels over 1.5 ppm whereas only 7 per cent of those with normal babies had such high lead levels . |
| 27 | The experience of unemployment has not been exclusive to people who left school under a Conservative Government . |
| 28 | Er the judge who said an eight year old sex victim was no angel , you remember the one of course , yesterday freed two men who had intercourse with a thirteen year old . |
| 29 | But there was no class distinction for the men , who had access to a subterranean ‘ gentlemen 's court ’ 800 ft. long and 40 ft. wide , with marble floors , white-tiled walls , bathrooms , boot-cleaning , and a hairdressing salon , as well as the actual lavatories . |
| 30 | Clearly , many parents in the area were not judging the school in the same way as HMI , who had access to a different range of information . |