Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [noun prp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | He will team up with American comic Dana Carvey , who played Garth in the smash-hit movie Wayne 's World . |
| 6 | Who played Chris in The Magnificent Seven ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Former tax avoidance consultant Godfrey Bradman was one of a handful of property developers who reshaped London in the '80s . |
| 10 | ‘ And do n't forget , you were the one who contacted Mike in the first place . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? ’ |
| 14 | He 's a rifle crackshot who represented Scotland in the 1966 Commonwealth Games . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The late Norman Lamont MP remembered here is an ancestor of our Chancellor who represented Wells in the 1830s . |
| 17 | The manager has been quoted as saying that the parents who wore Pakamacs in the fifties and sixties will buy them for their children . |
| 18 | This happened to some extent to the Slavs who invaded Greece in the sixth century , but in the Balkans three distinct Slav groups may be identified by the tenth century — the ancestors of the present-day Serbs , Croats , and Slovenes . |
| 19 | Traditionally the knocker boys — descended from former London barrow boys who left London in the 1950s , originally to make inroads into the town 's fruit and veg business — have been based in Brighton . |
| 20 | The great wave of migrants who left Greece in the 1950s and 1960s subsided long ago . |
| 21 | His parents , Abraham and Beattie , were ordinary , respectable , middle-class Jews who owned an electrical-goods store in the town ; his grandfather , who left Russia in the 1920s , had been a peddler and a shoemaker . |
| 22 | Peck adds that the private or ‘ stop ’ bull-runnings , which became popular in later years , had an effigy of St. Andrew , who replaced Taurus in the Christian ‘ Apostolic Zodiac ’ . |
| 23 | This is a reference to Gargouille , the great French DRAGON who ransacked Rouen in the seventh century . |