Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion . |
| 2 | Although there was clear authority at that time for the proposition that a man could not be guilty of the rape of a woman who lived with him outside marriage , Hale himself curtailed it by stating that cohabitation was not a defence but merely some evidence of consent . |
| 3 | Built , as Penry had told her , almost a century before , its mellow brick and gleaming windows blended into the picturesque hillside , welcome in every line of it to the girl who gazed at it in bliss as she turned off the engine . |
| 4 | Her punishment for wanting that English Protestant , my father , who proposed to her by telegram . |
| 5 | Like many such groups , they have acquired a patina of legend : during the nineteenth century there were those who referred to them as Druid stones , others who thought they were of Roman origin , and yet others who asserted they must be the gravestones of Danish invaders vanquished by Banquo and Macbeth . |
| 6 | Here she would receive such visitors as happened to be staying in the house , and subsequently reverential visitors , who appealed to her for aid or sympathy . |
| 7 | In London , the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) did pioneer work in developing a casework approach to the families who came to it for aid , helping them to solve their problems and help themselves rather than become dependent on charitable funds . |
| 8 | It is the fact that he has stolen hope from a number of incredibly vulnerable HIV-positive women who turned to him for help . |
| 9 | With the increase in population from the early nineteenth century , education in this illiberal form was unable to adapt itself " to the needs of the new body of persons who turned to it for help " . |
| 10 | ‘ Clearly it operates against the person who is able to exercise the influence ( in this case it was the father ) and … it would operate against every … person who claimed under him with notice of the equity thereby created , or with notice of the circumstances from which the court infers the equity . |
| 11 | Clearly it operates against the person who is able to exercise the influence ( in this case it was the father ) and , in my judgment , it would operate against every volunteer who claimed under him , and also against every person who claimed under him with notice of the equity thereby created , or with notice of the circumstances from which the court infers the equity . |
| 12 | Jockey Ron Treloggen 's only problem was seeing off the unwelcome attentions of a loose horse , Forest Ranger , who stuck to him like glue all the way from Becher 's Brook to the winning line . |
| 13 | Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
| 14 | The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused . |
| 15 | Her state of agitation conveyed itself to Jean , who looked at her with concern . |
| 16 | I found him talking to Miss Ingram , who looked at me in disgust when I interrupted their conversation . |
| 17 | The primary determinant of service was still land , in the sense that a lord normally drew the core of his following from the area where his estates lay , although the men who looked to him for lordship would not necessarily be his own tenants . |
| 18 | The primary determinant of service was still land , in the sense that a lord normally drew the core of his following from the area where his estates lay , although the men who looked to him for lordship would not necessarily be his own tenants . |
| 19 | Not that the freighter 's jumbled hold was pleasant , crowded with the noisy , dark shapes of the mining team who thought of her as cargo to sell . |
| 20 | But it was she the older , the larger and clumsier , who listened to him over supper . |
| 21 | She was introduced to him by a friend who spoke of him with admiration . |
| 22 | As her bitter public war of words with former lover Woody Allen rages on , Mia asked aides to find a pet for herself and her five children who stayed with her in Co . |
| 23 | The Inspector was advised by three ‘ expert ’ assessors , who sat beside him in turn at points in the hearing which bore on their speciality . |
| 24 | He also acknowledged the kindness of a small group of friends at Queen 's Park who stood by her in prayer and practical matters which she could no longer manage herself . |