Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun] " 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 | She eventually located an Immigration officer who led her through several corridors until they reached a locked red-painted door at the back of the airport building . |
| 3 | Now that those people have run up those enormous debts , where are the Labour Members of Parliament who led them into that position ? |
| 4 | He put himself into the hands of a psychiatrist who passed him to another psychiatrist , Leonard Browne . |
| 5 | It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess . |
| 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 saw an excellent physiotherapist and a chiropractor who subjected me to some tests and found that the ratio between my hamstrings and my quadriceps was n't good enough . |
| 9 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 10 | The prophets had sharp words for those who reduced them to this level . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | I met this Frenchman at Masstricht who kissed me on both cheeks . |
| 14 | Of his Quaker relatives who followed him in this course , S. P. Tregelles [ q.v. ] and the banker Samuel Lloyd were the most prominent . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | They wasted no time in coming up with a replacement for another New Zealander , Murray Kidd , who guided them to All Ireland League honours in 1992 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Everyone who knew him in those schooldays — men and women alike — speak with affection of him : stories tumble out like clothes spilling out of a split suitcase — Richard peeing out of the train window as the engine roared by the station platform , Richard taking a girl up on to a mountain and scaring her to flight at his howl as a passionate hand landed on one of his more angry boils , Rich , reeking of beer , rolling into school and being sent home . |
| 19 | Those who knew her during this period described her as full of life and fun and an exceptional administrator . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They met the woman , who took them down some steps leading to the river bank . |
| 22 | From a plain wooden table spread with literature she picked up a booklet and offered it to Melissa , who took it with some hesitation . |
| 23 | The only sorrow for Marjory , of Lunedale Road , Darlington , is that her grandfather is no longer here to share in the good news for it was he who introduced her to all things historical . |
| 24 | And he smiles as he talks of the best friend and rival who accompanied him on those weekend trips . |
| 25 | But he blamed Graveney for the furore : ‘ It was not the ICC who put him in this position but Tom himself . |
| 26 | After the war , Bank use of the hotel began to diminish and in May 1949 it was sold to a member of staff who ran it for many years on his own account . |
| 27 | As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline , outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions . |
| 28 | With hindsight it is tempting to ask if her outrage was directed at the Prince or the woman who held him in such thrall , Camilla Parker-Bowles . |