Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that any Special Agent who dressed like this guy would be disciplined . |
| 2 | There 's only so much that anybody 's brain can handle at any one time so let's just do a little experiment because there was a chap called George Miller an American psychologist who worked on this idea of what is the capacity of the brain , how many bits of information can the brain hold on to at any given time . |
| 3 | It was now known that the body of the Professor who specialised in nuclear physics had been claimed by the Iraqi Embassy in Rome . |
| 4 | Remember that fellow at work who walked into that gallery and just put it under his coat ? |
| 5 | motorist admits to not seeing boy who came from opposite pavement but accepted that motorist had only limited opportunity for seeing him . |
| 6 | ‘ The future risks are tremendous , ’ said Mr John Roberts , a Panama expert who served as general counsel on the Senate Armed Services Committee when the Panama Canal treaties were ratified in 1978 . |
| 7 | GEORGE ALLEN , a football coach who died on new year 's eve , deserves a footnote in political history . |
| 8 | ‘ Could the doctor have been called in the hour of desperate need by an angel who appeared as this woman 's young daughter ? ’ queries Mr Graham . |
| 9 | She could well imagine what was going on in his mind : fickle , impulsive girl who flitted from one man to another without so much as a backward glance . |
| 10 | A young motorist who crashed into another car while reversing at a fast speed escaped a driving ban at Whitby magistrates yesterday . |
| 11 | Five years on , with the Nazis extending their anti-Semitic reach , Willi 's guardian , a Russian Jewess who looked after several refugee children , decided it was time for a mountain trek to more hospitable territory . |
| 12 | He was also aware that constant allusions to the awful consequences of not keeping the lid screwed down would bring to heel , like so many Pavlovian dogs , those within his own camp who hankered after some form of leadership other than his . |
| 13 | Bogie was the kind of hellraiser who lived at one end of the scale . |
| 14 | She was one of the few members of the artistic community who admitted to religious observance . |
| 15 | It is hoped that the reader will participate to some extent in this activity by sharing the perspective of the workshop team who worked on this text . |
| 16 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |
| 17 | This was Paul Bedford ( c .1792–1871 ) , a popular actor who excelled in low comedy and whom CD mentions by name in Sketches of Young Gentlemen . |
| 18 | Nor do I for a moment suppose that anyone there recognized him , nor was he the sort of author who basked in that kind of admiration . |
| 19 | The patterns are asymmetrical — which means that the distribution of coronary stenosis and their severity in the group who presented with infarction is markedly different from the group who presented with chronic angina . |
| 20 | Another problem for the listener who relied on Zambian language bulletins was the fact that much of the translation was of a very low standard . |
| 21 | We report on patients with chronic viral hepatitis who died of hepatic decompensation during or shortly after interferon alfa treatment . |
| 22 | The venture is funded entirely by its board of directors , which includes Messrs Brown and Morse , along with Anthony S. Harrington , a Washington attorney who served as general counsel for the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign , and US Senator Terry Sanford , formerly North Carolina 's governor and president of Duke University . |
| 23 | However , as stated above , nine out of the 11 in the action sample who said at second interview that they continued to prefer home care gave much more unequivocal answers ; stating not merely that they would not like the dementia sufferer to be in institutional care , or that they would feel guilty about him or her going into residential care ( as did the carers of Miss Wainwright and Mrs Nolan ) , but also that home was where they envisaged and wanted the sufferer to remain . |
| 24 | Another risk is that when information is filed under address a consumer may be refused credit not because of his own record but because the record of some other person who lived at that address . |
| 25 | But if nothing concrete emerges , we shall check the backgrounds of every person who stayed in this Lodge last night . ’ |
| 26 | He handed it across to the Colonel who noticed with some satisfaction that it was addressed to him by name and not merely as commanding officer . |
| 27 | Almost every month it seems as though some sad parent on the local news is bemoaning the loss of their teenager who died in this way . |
| 28 | When Curtis had gone Wycliffe asked the operator to get Sidney Passmore 's number and he was put through to a woman who spoke with self-conscious refinement . |
| 29 | She recognised at once the well-built woman who turned from some chore at the kitchen sink as the woman who had opened the door to her last Friday . |
| 30 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |