Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | His comments brought an angry response from the executive director of Scottish Financial Enterprise , James Scott , who described them as confused nonsense . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | He found an holistic therapist who taught him about dietary reform , meditation and visualisation . |
5 | Yet not before he had been thoroughly frightened by the ghosts who warned him of terrible judgment . |
6 | Cornelius passed the something to his father , who examined it with great interest . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | And no-one was more delighted than the man who brought him to Central Park — scout Eric Hawley . |
9 | She passed the snapshot to Juliet , who took it with feigned interest . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Was n't it she who pasted them with meticulous care into the cuttings-book which Stella so affected to despise ! |
13 | Jack Owen was a sturdy , pleasant-looking man who greeted her in friendly fashion , though there was a hint of embarrassment in his manner . |
14 | Alexander 's interests and those of Athens were thus opposed ( which did not stop him from minting copiously in coinage designed for easy trade with Athens ) , and the opposition was inherited by every Macedonian king till Philip , who ended it by seizing Amphipolis for good . |
15 | Charmed too by her four cousins , their husbands and wives , all of whom treated her with instant familiarity , and their children who caroused through the house with unstoppable stamina , much to her aunt 's hilarity . |