Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporal Wix was the retired soldier who now worked for General Francis . |
| 2 | Ballymena worked hard but it still was n't enough against a low-key Portadown side who only clicked into gear at the finish . |
| 3 | Secondly , the young stranger who also passed through Godstowe at the same time — was it just a coincidence , or was he connected with the murder victims ? ’ |
| 4 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 5 | Pictured with Anthony , ‘ the 1066 Man ’ , are Joe Durie , Rose Saliba from La Manga , David Crook — Marketing Communications Manager at Pilkington Glass , and Anne Noakes — the coach who actually rallied with Anthony . |
| 6 | In keeping with the rationale of the legislation , the effect of the House of Lords ruling was to make guilty a tippee who knowingly traded in shares on the basis of unpublished price sensitive information , regardless of how the information was obtained . |
| 7 | The firm is headed by Steven Gluckstern , a financial wizard who previously worked for Salomon Brothers , a Wall Street firm , and Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway investment company . |
| 8 | Beverly Halstead , a distinguished paleontologist at Reading University who tragically died in April 1991 , said footprint fossils showed that the carnosaurs usually moved around in packs at about two-and-three-quarters mph . |
| 9 | By comparison , Britain 's first lady , Norma Major , is a quiet , unassuming woman who almost squirmed with discomfort when her husband became Prime Minister . |
| 10 | In their hands love seemed a narrow-eyed , exclusive , selfish bastard , to enjoy itself at the expense of a woman who now lay in bed in Auntie Jean 's house , her life unconsidered . |
| 11 | He talked to Modigliani , for example , of Bergson , the Jewish philosopher who nearly converted to Catholicism at the end of his life ; and through Bergson , of the concept of conscience and the relationship between morality and religion . |
| 12 | Finlay Calder , who has yet to regain full fitness , is replaced by Graham Marshall , a 6ft 3in specialist open-side flanker who also excelled in Japan . |
| 13 | Matthew McIllvanney was not the real boss of Cutwater Yacht Charters ( Bahamas ) Limited , which belonged to a retired theatre owner who now lived in Bermuda and was a long-time friend of my father , a friendship that had secured me the job of skippering Wavebreaker when Masquerade was wrecked , but McIllvanney actually looked after the day-to-day running of the charter business . |
| 14 | Another was a governor who frequently came into Russells Hall . |
| 15 | In the passage she encountered the man who always smelt of meat on the turn . |
| 16 | Few , however , could have imagined that the man who once served as chairman of Clitheroe Young Conservatives would be asked to don the cocked hat and plumes of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda . |
| 17 | Other aromas conjure up pleasant memories of first love perhaps , or possibly a visit to a well-loved grandmother who always smelled of lavender-water . |
| 18 | ZOLA BUDD , the barefoot waif who once ran for Britain , was a South African disaster in the 3000- metre heats . |
| 19 | This bloke and his daughter who like lived as tramps |
| 20 | Apart from organising his domestic life , Stella Pullman was a disciplinarian in the old British landlady tradition ( her husband was a former RAF pilot who now flew for BOAC ) . |
| 21 | Mick Keebles , the World Cup captain , heads the off-campus contingent , which also includes John Jenkins , a centre who briefly returned to rugby union with Waterloo on leaving Leeds Polytechnic , but decided it did not quite match the real thing . |
| 22 | I describe the proceedings here , however , because they raise questions about the willingness of the GMC to protect patients from forms of diagnosis and treatments which have not been sufficiently validated and about its lenient attitude to a doctor who persistently touted for business by attracting the interest of tabloid journalists . |
| 23 | DENNIS SILK , a three-time Cambridge Blue who also played for Somerset , was names as MCC 's next president at the club 's AGM at Lord 's on May 6 , Silk , 60 , who retired recently as Warden of Radley College , takes over from Michael Melluish on Oct 1 , and will be the first to spend two years in office , under anew rule passed at the AGM . |
| 24 | On the following day , Elinor 's door was thrown open by a nurse who then stood to attention as , smiling benignly , Matron Ivy Braddock appeared in the doorway . |
| 25 | Less dramatic but equally puzzling would be the problem posed by the patient who deliberately went on hunger-strike in order to end his suffering . |
| 26 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 27 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 28 | The evidence rests on the behaviour of an English lorry-driver who regularly stayed in Johnstone . |
| 29 | The central character in this story of the times is a seventeen-year-old runaway from New York City , who is taken by the whole current youth philosophy and ends up in California , where she tries to locate her brother who also headed for San Francisco . |
| 30 | The gaoler who usually dealt with Cameron was called Jamie — he called himself Jamie , like a little boy who has not long learned to speak . |