Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a nice chap called Roland who entertained us with such finesse on his flute and oboe . |
| 2 | Now that those people have run up those enormous debts , where are the Labour Members of Parliament who led them into that position ? |
| 3 | He put himself into the hands of a psychiatrist who passed him to another psychiatrist , Leonard Browne . |
| 4 | It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess . |
| 5 | His comments brought an angry response from the executive director of Scottish Financial Enterprise , James Scott , who described them as confused nonsense . |
| 6 | Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe . |
| 7 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 8 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 9 | The prophets had sharp words for those who reduced them to this level . |
| 10 | When the messages were decoded they emerged as apparently meaningless blocks of letters , and these were passed on to the linguists in Hut 3 who turned them into intelligible German . |
| 11 | Whilst driving through London , Stephen Waldorf was shot several times and severely injured by officers who confused him with another person whom they said they were seeking to capture . |
| 12 | So her shops with their carefully designed clothes sat on top of great orders for dresses and suits that Belmodes made for a handful of big stores who marketed them under different trade names , sometimes their own , but never Belmodes . |
| 13 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 14 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 15 | He found an holistic therapist who taught him about dietary reform , meditation and visualisation . |
| 16 | Of his Quaker relatives who followed him in this course , S. P. Tregelles [ q.v. ] and the banker Samuel Lloyd were the most prominent . |
| 17 | Yet not before he had been thoroughly frightened by the ghosts who warned him of terrible judgment . |
| 18 | This revelation represented a fundamental flaw in the BRAC programme , since BRAC 's plan of introducing appropriate technology to the people of Bangladesh required that the lobon-gur solution should have been available to all who needed it with little difficulty ( the first criterion given at the beginning of Chapter 4 ) . |
| 19 | Cornelius passed the something to his father , who examined it with great interest . |
| 20 | I am very sensitive to my hon. Friend 's reference to Warren Hastings ' because it was Edmund Burke , a kinsman of mine , who prosecuted him over that length of time . |
| 21 | Those who knew her during this period described her as full of life and fun and an exceptional administrator . |
| 22 | Marcus , thus present occasionally at Jack 's house , where he evidently felt his visits to be a matter of duty , inevitably encountered the women , who treated him with suitable respect and awe , and Jack , who was nervously affable , and even on two occasions Gildas to whom he nodded politely . |
| 23 | He was a form of Guru to the airmen who frequently took their problems to him , rather like the simple Arab in the desert who treated him as some form of God . |
| 24 | And no-one was more delighted than the man who brought him to Central Park — scout Eric Hawley . |
| 25 | She passed the snapshot to Juliet , who took it with feigned interest . |
| 26 | From a plain wooden table spread with literature she picked up a booklet and offered it to Melissa , who took it with some hesitation . |
| 27 | Einstein was fortunate in having a friend Marcel Grossmann who introduced him to Riemannian geometry and who worked with him until Einstein left Zurich in 1914 . |
| 28 | Hope flicked to alert and took in the scene : five other parties , all yielding the centre to the couple who occupied it with proprietorial ease ; several guides being consulted , some read from aloud , everywhere the men pointing , the indies dipping their heads to listen or lifting them to question , with seeming humility , the words of the scholars and their translators . |
| 29 | And he smiles as he talks of the best friend and rival who accompanied him on those weekend trips . |
| 30 | But he blamed Graveney for the furore : ‘ It was not the ICC who put him in this position but Tom himself . |