Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RUGBY UNION : David Sole , who led Scotland to the Grand Slam in 1990 , is to retire later this year . |
| 2 | Turania , an area of East Turkistan , now one of the Central Provinces of the USSR situated between Afghanistan and the Caspian Sea , spawned , it appears , gifted stone-masons , and at the request of the Emperor Asoka who ruled India during the third century BC , the Naga named Mahakala produced colossal images of Guatama Buddha and his two predecessors . |
| 3 | As Eisenman demonstrates , the legitimacy of the high priesthood — of Zadok or of the Zadok — was resuscitated by the Maccabeans , the last dynasty of Judiac kings , who ruled Israel from the second century B.C. until Herodian times and the Roman occupation . |
| 4 | Eva knew a man on the local paper , the same co-operative journalist who got Charlie on the front page of the Bromley and Kentish Times , and he interviewed Dad . |
| 5 | He was one of several noted British artists approached for work by John M. Gates , Director of Design to the American firm , Steuben Glass , and who visited London in the early 1950s . |
| 6 | One such was the Duke of Richmond who found Sussex in the 1740s in the midst of what a number of local historians have rightly described as a ‘ guerilla war ’ . |
| 7 | Clare Wood , who beat Gomer in the national singles final at Telford last weekend , replaces her in a team completed by Jo Durie and Anne Hobbs . |
| 8 | Mr Cook argued that 10 years of Thatcherism had been forced on most people , who had never voted Conservative , and that many of those who opposed PR in the Labour Party wanted to use the same undemocratic power ‘ to ram socialism down the throats of a majority who did n't vote for it ’ . |
| 9 | He will team up with American comic Dana Carvey , who played Garth in the smash-hit movie Wayne 's World . |
| 10 | Who played Chris in The Magnificent Seven ? |
| 11 | FK Austria , who played Arsenal in the European Cup two seasons ago , claim they can not afford to pay the insurance cover needed for their international release . |
| 12 | FK Austria , who played Arsenal in the European Cup two seasons ago , claim they can not afford to pay the insurance cover needed for their international release . |
| 13 | Former tax avoidance consultant Godfrey Bradman was one of a handful of property developers who reshaped London in the '80s . |
| 14 | On Sunday , he will have an important role in the final against a Galway side who stunned Tipperary at the semi-final stage . |
| 15 | ‘ And do n't forget , you were the one who contacted Mike in the first place . |
| 16 | It is right to say , ‘ If Christ is in you , ’ and in the next verse to say , ‘ If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you , ’ for it is by means of the Spirit , the Spirit of God , the Spirit of Christ , that Jesus makes his home in the believer . |
| 17 | ‘ If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you , he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit which dwells in you ’ ( 8:11 ) . |
| 18 | Alan Smith had just been appointed editor and was about to change the whole face of the paper , ditching those who revered Cilla as the greatest swinger on the block . |
| 19 | The transformation was carried out by BBC Scotland 's TV unit , who chose Portencross as the ideal spot to film exteriors for the forthcoming TV series of Para Handy . |
| 20 | Tottenham Hotspur who put Oxford United out of the F A Cup in the fourth round , found life difficult at Fratton Park where Portsmouth forgot their disappointing League form and led Spurs by a Chamberlain goal after forty one minutes , but Gascoigne who tormented Oxford in the last round , equalised for Spurs in the sixty second minutes , and seven minutes from time , that man Gascoigne popped up with a winner . |
| 21 | To anyone who knew Lewis in the second half of his life , and remarked his preference for boys ' books such as R. M. Ballantyne or Captain Marryat over the so-called ‘ moderns ’ , there can be no doubt that he was here addressing a warning not just to his brother but to himself . |
| 22 | Martin , who represented Fulham in the Conservative interest , lived in some style at the Albany in Piccadilly and liked to remark that ‘ every passing year — do n't you find , dear boy — is just more fun than the last ? ’ |
| 23 | He 's a rifle crackshot who represented Scotland in the 1966 Commonwealth Games . |
| 24 | It is no green novice that top dressage rider Trish Gardiner is referring to , but Wily Imp , he class sixteen-year-old dark bay gelding who represented Britain in the last Olympics , and has every chance of doing so again in Barcelona . |
| 25 | The late Norman Lamont MP remembered here is an ancestor of our Chancellor who represented Wells in the 1830s . |
| 26 | Otakar Motej , Chairman of the Supreme Court , who represented Havel during the Federal Assembly 's discussion of his proposals , expressed disappointment at the deputies ' lack of trust in the President . |
| 27 | Socinus was a radical Reformation thinker who saw Rome as the great harlot of Revelation 17 . |
| 28 | The manager has been quoted as saying that the parents who wore Pakamacs in the fifties and sixties will buy them for their children . |
| 29 | ONE of Ulster 's top promoters and the man who brought Eurovision to the tiny Cork village of Millstreet said today they would support plans to stage next year 's contest in Ulster . |
| 30 | Her wardrobe was put together by the debonair O'Toole who took Tara to the chic London designershop , Burns . |