Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] with [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Cornelius passed the something to his father , who examined it with great interest . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She passed the snapshot to Juliet , who took it with feigned interest . |
| 7 | From a plain wooden table spread with literature she picked up a booklet and offered it to Melissa , who took it with some hesitation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Von Sophias Wilbur , who won it with 2,273 points . |
| 10 | Was n't it she who pasted them with meticulous care into the cuttings-book which Stella so affected to despise ! |
| 11 | 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 . |