Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [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 | His comments brought an angry response from the executive director of Scottish Financial Enterprise , James Scott , who described them as confused nonsense . |
| 7 | This idea inspired knights from France to flock to the assistance of the struggling Christian kingdoms in northern Spain ; but there was clearly a nice distinction between the attitude of men north of the Pyrenees , who regarded the Muslim as the wicked infidel , as cattle for the slaughter , and the Christians who had lived among them in Spain and who regarded them as misguided fellow-humans . |
| 8 | However , the whole Pierremont extravaganza was too much for ordinary people , and when Henry 's second wife Mary , who outlived him by 28 years , died in 1909 the estate was gradually sold off for housing . |
| 9 | Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe . |
| 10 | After having a challenge for the domestic middleweight title demolished by Bunny Sterling who stopped him in eight rounds , Hope once more returned with a vigorous sequence of wins culminating in a challenge for the world light-middleweight title held by Eckhard Dagge in Berlin . |
| 11 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 14 | Stephane Grappelli , the renowned jazz violinist , employed English agents who booked him for certain concerts . |
| 15 | The prophets had sharp words for those who reduced them to this level . |
| 16 | She pointed out that the piebald donkey in leather boots that had for years pulled the mowing machine which cut the acres of grass at Deer Forest , was at the end of a useful life , and , in any case , the whole performance took up two working days of the farm labourer who drove her in long reins — reins thin as thread and cracked with age : there was nothing economical about that . |
| 17 | The DOE sent it out to referees for opinions , one of whom was Steven Jones , who received it on 20 September . |
| 18 | Fundamentally , what was at issue was whether the army , now ideally composed of men with at least a modicum of training and military skill , should be led by men who merited their responsibilities , awarded to them on behalf of the community by the king who paid them from public funds ( ‘ la peccune publique ’ ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 24 | He found an holistic therapist who taught him about dietary reform , meditation and visualisation . |
| 25 | I met this Frenchman at Masstricht who kissed me on both cheeks . |
| 26 | Of his Quaker relatives who followed him in this course , S. P. Tregelles [ q.v. ] and the banker Samuel Lloyd were the most prominent . |
| 27 | Yet not before he had been thoroughly frightened by the ghosts who warned him of terrible judgment . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | Cornelius passed the something to his father , who examined it with great interest . |
| 30 | Ximena , who survived him by fifteen years , held Valencia for only short time . |