Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here he was a barrow boy who became embroiled in a pitched battle with children in Wilcox Road market , South Lambeth . |
| 2 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
| 3 | When the police arrived to rescue the driver , who 'd parked on a blind bend of the motorway , he 'd explained that he had n't wanted to risk ruining his tyre by driving the extra distance to the hard shoulder . |
| 4 | By the pool at Château Kitsch , which was as blue as Enid Coley 's hostess gown , Trace , who 'd changed into a slinky black dress , was having a row with Randy Sherwood . |
| 5 | I know a 51-year-old women who 'd embarked on a passionate affair with a 55-year-old , but was terrified of spending the night with him . |
| 6 | Celia , who had trained as a physical education instructor , now ran the Loxford parish Guides , a swimming group for the disabled , and was Peter 's Deanery Secretary . |
| 7 | Dr Owen 's decision to support tactical voting for some Liberal Democrat candidates will surprise senior Conservatives , who had hoped for a simple message of support for Mr Major . |
| 8 | She said : ‘ I then realised there were people just like me , and people who had gone through a worse hell than me . ’ |
| 9 | Anthony Lake , 53 , a Massachusetts professor , was a former foreign service officer and State Department policy planning chief , who had served as a key foreign affairs adviser to Clinton during the presidential election campaign . |
| 10 | In England a man who had served as a royal official might end as an earl , as did Henry I 's trusted adviser Aubrey de Vere . |
| 11 | Caroline who had moved to a new area was asked by a neighbour to join a committee planning the local summer carnival . |
| 12 | Paige , who had remained in a shocked silence as revelation had poured on revelation , rediscovered her voice . |
| 13 | She felt lost , that her youth had gone , been sucked away by that vain and stupid old woman who had become enamoured of the young boy who had turned into a smooth-talking man . |
| 14 | Cranston , who had stopped at a local tavern to refill his miraculous wineskin , was full of chatter and speculation . |
| 15 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 16 | It was he himself who had insisted upon a brisk pace and now all he wanted was to dismount and stretch his legs . |
| 17 | Booth , who had played in a reserve match 24 hours earlier to prove his fitness , scored with two headers to conclude a remarkable night . |
| 18 | Marx and Engels , like all their contemporaries , including anthropologists and archaeologists and Morgan in particular , felt that information gained about contemporary peoples whose life depended on a simple technology was valid for understanding the social institutions of prehistoric populations who had relied on a similar technology . |
| 19 | A decision by Endara to dismiss 400 public-sector workers , who had participated in a general strike on Dec. 5 for improved wages and conditions and against forced redundancies , sparked off sympathy strikes which concluded in a demonstration dispersed by riot police using tear gas and bird shot on Dec. 13 . |
| 20 | Thirty minutes earlier the radio had crackled with news of a definite sighting of the escapee Burrows , who had broken into a deserted farmhouse between Retford and Gainsborough . |
| 21 | In January this year , three long service presentations were made at Douglas Reyburn to those who had worked for a continuous twenty five years with the company . |
| 22 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 23 | Hundreds of trippers who had paid for a front-row seat in a grandstand overlooking the departing flotilla left in anger when they were told the scaffolding viewpoint was potentially unsafe and would not be used . |
| 24 | Snizort , on his own account , offered the Twelve Knights who had sat at a round table so that no one of them should be at its head and no one at its foot . |
| 25 | And what part did the cripple play who had sat like a malignant spirit guarding a make-shift bridge over an unimportant stream ? |
| 26 | The boy Maelmuire , who had started with a high colour like his father Duncan 's , had gone very pale . |
| 27 | On a visit to Paris in 1792 , Losh narrowly escaped from the city during the September massacres , possibly owing his escape to the influence of Jean Paul Marat , who had practised as a veterinary surgeon in Newcastle . |
| 28 | The big news of the day , he said , though for some inexplicable reason the Guardian ignored it , concerned the lovers who had bonked in a British Rail platform photo booth . |
| 29 | He turned and yelled at Hugh de Riveire and his men , who had launched on a private war at his back . |
| 30 | The Vicar 's wife , who had parked on a yellow line while her gay husband went into the shop to get a treacle tart , got such a shock when Wayne stuck his big , hairy white face in through the window that she jumped out and ran away . |