Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 2 | This little harbour near St Austell is named after Charles Rashleigh , who built it in the late eighteenth century to a design by John Smeaton . |
| 3 | Wilson 's principal domestic fault was his kindness in bestowing benefits on friends , and indeed on anyone who approached him in the appropriate fashion , and certainly through Marcia Williams . |
| 4 | There are even rumours of near miracles he accomplished , such as the conversion of a foul-mouthed old alcoholic , hurt in the Marcasse pit disaster , who told him in no uncertain terms to clear off , he did n't want rosary-mumblers around him , and then was converted by Vincent 's sanctity . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Those who knew him in the early 1970s in Florida remember a young man who beat balls at night after working a day job . |
| 7 | One who knew him in the Bandung period , Takdir Alisjahbana , recalls : ‘ A fascinating personality … few [ were ] able to resist his charm . |
| 8 | Browning , who revived it in the late nineteenth century , thought it showed Smart rising from sanity to transfiguration , or , as Rossetti put it , from Earth to Heaven . |