Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another winner at the weekend was the Oxfordshire based rider David O'Connor who rode home to take the big prize at the British Open Horse Trials at Gatcombe Park . |
| 2 | Another winner at the weekend was the Oxfordshire based rider David O'Connor who rode home to take the big prize at the British Open Horse Trials at Gatcombe Park . |
| 3 | There were peoples in the empire — the Masai , pre-eminently , were one , and the Bedouin Arabs were shortly to be another — who seemed instinctively to possess the right combination of self-respect and pragmatic acceptance of the facts of British power . |
| 4 | Westrail wish to extend special thanks to Alun Rees , C.M.E. of the Severn Valley Railway and his team of craftsmen who worked unstintingly to complete the new boiler in time for this year 's season . |
| 5 | Although Carr produced the most sustained attack on the assumptions of Idealism , it was Hans Morgenthau who did most to popularize the new approach of Realism . |
| 6 | Instead it was Andy Roxburgh 's new kid on the block , Eoin Jess , who did most to bring the young supporters out of their seats . |
| 7 | A local builder , probably the same man who had just built the beautiful house of Newton Ferrers , created this simple masterpiece in the local sea-grey basaltic stone , mixed with silvery granite from the moor up over the hill to the north . |
| 8 | In 1847 Richard Sheepshanks wrote of John Couch Adams , a Cambridge mathematician who had just predicted the new planet Neptune : ‘ I think there is a hope that Mr Adams will continue his astronomical career . |
| 9 | For one brief moment , it seemed as if there might be a conventional route to fame , through the young director Roman Polanski who had just entered the fast new Hollywood crowd of which Nicholson was a member , as was his friend Robert Evans , who had been recently appointed vice president of Paramount and in charge of all new production projects . |
| 10 | Neither therapy was enjoyed and I listened to the catalogue of side effects like a reporter who had just pierced the darkest Amazonian forest and was observing a new race for the first time . |
| 11 | The first function to take place in the new headquarters of cricket was a reception for the bishop of London , who had just consecrated the adjacent St John 's Wood church . |
| 12 | He treated the much-vaunted pace pairing of Wasim and Waqar as though they were tame medium pacers , not the men who had mercilessly destroyed the last threads of his Test confidence . |
| 13 | Businessmen , who had generally welcomed the initial actions of the administration , now called for a halt . |
| 14 | Evert , one of those within the ruling New Democracy party who had strongly criticized the proposed sale of islands [ see below ] , was replaced on Oct. 31 by Sotiris Kouvelas , whose Agriculture portfolio went to Sotiris Hadjigakis . |
| 15 | Victorians , who had yet to discover the stiff upper lip and the view that religion had always to be a serious matter , were passionate people who expressed their feelings freely and often loudly . |
| 16 | Ironically , the evidence provided by Cartesian vivisectors , who had already demonstrated the anatomical and physiological similarities between humans and non-humans , gave Bentham and his followers sufficient grounds for believing that animals could indeed experience pain and pleasure ( Serpell , 1986 ; Ryder , 1989 ) . |
| 17 | At Sotheby 's New York on 21 October last , five clocks of second-rate quality ( the property of a collector who had already dispersed the best part of his collection ) sent auction prices rocketing . |
| 18 | The students had not yet arrived , but I took meals in the refectory with a few of the college authorities and professors who had already started the new term 's work . |
| 19 | This was to ensure that , as far as possible , the teachers in the sample included only those who had either experienced the entire process of review , reporting and feedback or who had at least been involved in the review component . |
| 20 | If anyone knew when this unique event might actually happen , it was Werner , for it was he who had dramatically cured the late king of tuberculosis in the 1950s , thereby becoming a much loved honorary member of the tribe , and the recipient of all the latest news and gossip from Torajans visiting the lowlands . |
| 21 | It is ironic , however , that Nizan , who had previously denounced the liberal cultural policy of Barbusse , the PCF 's own leading writer , now found himself called upon to woo fellow-travelling bourgeois writers such as Gide in order to gain maximum support for a popular front political and cultural policy suddenly in favour . |
| 22 | Another is that unskilled or semi-skilled operators can be recruited to perform these fragmented tasks , replacing the skilled craft workers who had previously performed the unfragmented tasks . |
| 23 | Bishop Bell , who commissioned the play , was an influential British churchman who had consistently supported the German Confessing Church in its opposition to National Socialism . |
| 24 | Soapy Symonds also minded Carrie 's welfare as far as he could , and both men were favourites of the pretty young girl who had now become the joint owner of Bradley 's Dining Rooms . |
| 25 | The sight of the youth who had so displeased the detested recruiter and thereby jeopardized his future supply of coolies stopped Duclos in his tracks . |
| 26 | It was only Brian who had ever interrupted the even style of her working life by phoning or calling , to ask idiotic questions about things that had already been agreed or arranged , but forgotten through drink . |
| 27 | For a while Wordsworth retained his loyalty to the Girondin leaders of France , though this meant that he was in English eyes a ‘ Jacobin' , that is , a revolutionary extremist who had actually visited the infected country twice . |
| 28 | While Nana denied that there were such things as duppies and forbade Martha to look under her old iron cot for them before she went to bed , Mada Joyce was expert on ghouls , ghosts , spirits and apparitions of all kinds , and had known a woman in another village who had actually seen the skinless old hag who sucked babies ' blood reach into the cradle of her new-born child and disappear with a shriek when she touched the Bible on the infant 's pillow . |
| 29 | The Admiral , who had unwittingly detonated the explosive , never had a chance . |
| 30 | He was suffering from exhaustion and cold after helping co-climber Harry Taylor , who had earlier become the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without oxygen equipment . |