Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 2 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 3 | There were only three spaces available on a concreted section of the front garden and I normally left these for the use of Mrs Bradshaw and the two families who lived in the second-floor flats . |
| 4 | She paused and peered down the rocky road to make sure that none of the children who lived in the lower houses had followed her . |
| 5 | At least 125 people who lived in the two buildings were either dead or critically injured . |
| 6 | From the shade beneath the trees emerged each day some of the considerable number of people who lived in the mysterious heights . |
| 7 | Needless to say , those who lived in the inner cities had a high index of deprivation . |
| 8 | Even so , the jobs located in the cities were not going to inner-city residents but to people who lived in the leafy suburbs . |
| 9 | This perhaps was a feature of the Forest of Dean , where four holdings out of five could have been occupied by their owners ( who lived in the same townships ) and many belonged to men worth less than £2 . |
| 10 | And as , as we said before , erm , many of the , erm people who lived in the poorer parts of erm the country , whether in urban or rural En erm England did n't really know about basic nutrition and and health I mean you just ate what was available but you did n't know why and so the government started this campaign to introduce you know knowledge about diet and how important it was . |
| 11 | But it seemed to me that I had not properly answered his question and that he was really voicing the unthinking complaint of the people who lived in the little houses all over the world . |
| 12 | He was an international judge who operated in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 . |
| 13 | Yesterday , as the sun broke through on the peaceful setting of Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh they and others who fought with the International Brigades against General Franco and made the ultimate sacrifice , were remembered . |
| 14 | In a bad mood , ‘ They 've Scoffed The Lot ’ probably sounds rubbish , but , for all those who fought in the Shambling Wars , it 's worth a rash . |
| 15 | Using skilled tutors , such as Mary Adams from Cambridge , who shared in the group-listening sessions and then extended the broadcast themes through discussion and supplementary material , the BBC programmes at Harrold and Goldington led directly to longer courses . |
| 16 | They became an essential part of the practices of the Israelite tribes who penetrated to the northern parts of Canaan and integrated with local people . |
| 17 | The rest had left finance , bar a few who retrained for the burgeoning futures markets in right-to-pollute certificates and manual-job options . |
| 18 | Palestinians with relatives still inside Israel could pay two-week visits — many , like Damiani 's wife , have gone wistfully to look from a distance at the homes they once bought and lived in — and the same Israeli spokesman who referred to the Palestinian Arabs as ‘ a community of refugees ’ said that he had himself assisted 40,000 Palestinians to rejoin their families and become Israeli citizens . |
| 19 | Originally , the kitchen was dark and narrow , but the architect who helped with the structural changes suggested that if the living room and the kitchen swapped places they could have a large kitchen with French windows opening on to the garden . |
| 20 | Such was Roger de Clifford the Elder , who presided over the southern forests 1265–81 , and his grandson Robert de Clifford , ‘ one of the greatest barons of the age ’ who headed the northern Forest administration 1297–1308 . |
| 21 | Einstein has traced in his work the conservative influences of Ingegneri , a melodious master of Palestrinian polyphony , and Andrea Gabrieli , who excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and villanella , the Venetian gregesche and giustiniane . |
| 22 | On one occasion he hired a Satanist , a monk who dabbled in the Black Arts . |
| 23 | The principal beneficiaries were those who moved to the new houses built in the postwar housing drives , which ( with a few exceptions in remote rural areas ) all had electricity as a basic service . |
| 24 | The Captain was an egocentric man , one who believed in the great blueprints of life . |
| 25 | Most puzzling was that the worse it got , the more people bought it , and — horror of horrors — it was cheerfully read in large numbers by the very people who suffered from the hackneyed prejudices and stereotypes it dispensed — notably blacks , gays and women . |
| 26 | Most of the 1,500 crowd who came for the best objects on the last two days of the sale meanwhile , were just tourists , which made taking bids extremely difficult and fatiguing , Tajan said . |
| 27 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 28 | The popes had to come to terms with the nobles and those who came from the noble families of the city naturally built up their own families and factions in order to survive . |
| 29 | Ballymena will have the services of former London Irish flanker Gareth White , who played for the Irish Exiles last season , but is now home working in Coleraine . |
| 30 | I got the Ampeg for free ; it used to belong to a lad who played with The Pale Fountains , but he had a brain haemorrhage or something really sad and his girlfriend was nice enough to pass his amp along to me . |