Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not an opinion , simply the Catholic moral teaching , he said at the funeral of Henry Babbington , shot dead on Wednesday by IRA men who mistook him for a loyalist terrorist . |
| 2 | THE STORY of the legendary Lawrence of Arabia has fascinated the media for many years , not least director David Lean , who made it into a famous feature film with Peter O'Toole in 1962 . |
| 3 | Also on Beinn Bhan , Der Riesenwand was climbed by Roger Webb by the original line , and Robin Clothier by an accidental direct finish ( sorry , partners unknown ) , and Gully of the Gods by Robin Beadle and Martin Moran , who described it as a superb but straightforward grade V. |
| 4 | His dedication brought him swift advancement at the cost of alienating his contemporaries , who regarded him as an arrogant , stand-offish prig . |
| 5 | Their common-sense ideas about life , good housekeeping and the rest were ignored by government after government , who regarded them as an over-productive milch-cow . |
| 6 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
| 7 | Often it was relatives or friends of us permanents , who used it as a temporary place to stay on arrival until they found bedsits or whatever . |
| 8 | In fact , it was an ‘ A ’ team player who helped them towards a good victory over highly placed Malshanger on Wednesday last week . |
| 9 | The seat had been Tory since 1970 and had been held since 1974 by Sir Charles , who retained it with a sizeable personal vote . |
| 10 | Those who dismissed him as a third-rate actor failed to recognize his ability as a political campaigner . |
| 11 | Louis pushed his plate away from him , took the chop bone and tossed it to the springer who caught it with a single sharp snap . |
| 12 | Birmingham born , Graham Tiso left school to work for Cadbury 's , the confectioners , who provided him with a sound overall business training . |
| 13 | Without a word , Lucenzo offered her a jug of coffee and flicked a quick finger at the alert barman , who provided her with a fresh cup . |
| 14 | But she had only been there four months when she fell prey to supervisor Brian McConville who subjected her to a harrowing sexual harassment ordeal . |
| 15 | Yells of triumph and foot stomping attracted the attention of the manager , who attracted ours with a long cane . |
| 16 | ‘ WAS IT ONE OF THEM IN-DEPTH things you have to really think about ? ’ asked the cabbie who drove me from A Hard Heart . |
| 17 | The 20-year-old was collected from the prison in Durham by relatives who drove her to a secret destination . |
| 18 | A well-established tradition holds owners to be morally entitled to their property where they have obtained it by way of an uncoerced transfer from someone who received it in a similar manner , subject to the property having been originally taken into private ownership by a legitimate process of acquisition . |
| 19 | ‘ It was my father who encouraged me as a high jumper . |
| 20 | At one point , towards the end of the seventeenth century , the church was possessed by Daniel Disney who turned it into a Presbyterian Meeting House but by 1812 it was back in the hands of the Church of England again . |
| 21 | The four men — Talb , aged 35 , Marten Imandi , and two brothers , Mustafa and Mahmoud Mougrabi — were known to the intelligence services , who linked them with a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command ( PFLP-GC ) cell working in Frankfurt and Neuss . |
| 22 | Hawks could n't afford to repair the aircraft and after a long rest in the hangar , it was bought by Ed Connerton who rebuilt it as a two-seat military aircraft registered NX2491 . |
| 23 | Freud 's theory was taken up by the French structuralist , Claude who developed it into a cultural determinist theory , which said that er , animals commit incest , human beings do n't . |
| 24 | Concrete had long been utilized as a bonding and covering material but it was the Romans who developed it as a structural one . |
| 25 | As they walked he offered her his arm , unlike most punters , who followed her at a discreet distance . |
| 26 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 27 | His exceptional talent was eventually recognized by the editor , E. V. Knox [ q.v. ] , who placed him under an exclusive contract , an almost unprecedented arrangement . |
| 28 | His tutor , Dr John Preston [ q.v. ] , recommended Bradstreet to the Earl of Lincoln , who employed him as an assistant steward on his estates . |
| 29 | McKenzie , who has never been in trouble before , was described by people who knew him as a pleasant individual . |
| 30 | As a person , Whitaker was frequently described by those who knew him as a great store-house of energy and enthusiasm , who could manage that rare gift of imparting such enthusiasm to others . |