Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathleen Woodward 's mother of the 1890s was the one I knew : mothers were people who told you how long they were in labour with you , how much you hurt , how hard it was to have you ( " twenty hours with you , " my mother frequently reminded me ) and who told you to accept the impossible contradiction of being both desired and being a burden , and not to complain . |
| 2 | Back in Britain , Crawford found himself a choreographer , Leo Charibean , who taught him to dance the American way . |
| 3 | His future was saved by the Dutch medical instrument company , Docshop , who signed him to attack the 250 Euro series . |
| 4 | Aung San travelled separately from the others , stopping over in Delhi to confer with Nehru who warned him to examine the British proposal ‘ with particular care … and not to be caught by it as I was ’ . |
| 5 | However , he impressed Sir Clements Markham [ q.v. ] , who selected him to command the SY Morning in 1902 to be sent to the relief of the Discovery expedition of Robert Falcon Scott [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |