Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in 1969 the FDP supported the SPD 's Presidential candidate , Gustav Heinemann , who successfully triumphed over the CDU 's Schröder . |
| 2 | Unlike Onofre Marimon ( ARG ) , Peter Collins ( GB ) , Carel Godin de Beaufort ( HOL ) and John Taylor ( GB ) , who all died at the Nurburgring , Lauda was spared his life , but was badly scared . |
| 3 | While there , I photographed the graves of other servicemen who all hailed from the Merseyside area . |
| 4 | Five people were assassinated at Acerra , near Naples , on May 1 by a group of men who apparently belonged to the Camorra , the Neapolitan equivalent of the Mafia . |
| 5 | Each of the retentionist members of the Labour Cabinet in 1947/8 who still sat in the Commons voted for abolition . |
| 6 | On Feb. 14 an agreement was signed in Geneva by Iran and Iraq , under the auspices of the ICRC , to bring to completion the repatriation of 20,000 prisoners of war from both countries who still remained from the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 7 | A TELEVISION commentator who once referred to the Augusta crowd as a ‘ mob ’ so angered tournament officials that he was not invited back the following year . |
| 8 | As Mabel , a retired teacher who also served on the Middlesbrough and Teesside borough councils for 21 years , says : ‘ Anyone reading the book will gather I 'm a socialist , though I do n't try to make political points . ’ |
| 9 | Joining Mr Knight is as technical manager for marine and protective coatings. , who also worked at the Hamburg office , has responsibility for some of the major marine accounts . |
| 10 | Spiro , who also worked for the CIA , is believed to have killed himself after murdering wife Gail , 41 , and children Sarah , 16 , Adam , 14 and Deanna , 11 , at their California home . |
| 11 | ‘ There is some doubt over who was the first person in the world to swim the back crawl , but arguably it was actress Rita Tushingham 's uncle Thomas , who also swam for the Garston club , ’ he explains . |
| 12 | Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel , who both studied at the Paris School of Mime , Movement and Theatre , play Rosie Tickletoe and Charles , two remarkably unremarkable people , who meet , fall in love , and get married . |
| 13 | Now in the early thirties this was too much for the troops to take , so they took their problem to Shaw who then went to the NAAFI and bought all the cups for a penny . |
| 14 | Concern over a covert Iraqi nuclear weapons programme had grown after US intelligence sources claimed that a senior Iraqi nuclear scientist , who recently defected to the USA , had confirmed that a substantial portion of Iraq 's nuclear and chemical weapons stocks remained intact . |
| 15 | Sonnabend Gallery , New York , has failed in its lawsuit against its former artist Peter Halley who recently defected to the Gagosian Gallery after six years , taking eleven works with him . |
| 16 | The leader 's chair was occupied by the familiar and welcome figure of Bradley Creswick , who recently moved to the Philharmonia from the Newcastle-based Northern Sinfonia . |
| 17 | Carol Andrew , known for her work with the Carol Andrew Singers , replaces Connie Overend , who recently retired from the Blackwell Ladies ' Choir . |
| 18 | With some of the ‘ old originals ’ present ( I refer to that distinguished body of people who actually travelled on the BCR ) we had an interesting discussion in which living memories were compared with evidence from Mr Scott Morgan 's research . |