Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 2 | The head of the family when I first remember them was William Henry Bayles who was Grandmother 's cousin and the father of a lady who taught me a little bit of music . |
| 3 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
| 4 | Hailed as the troubled comic genius who gave us the manic hotel-keeper Basil Fawlty and the Ministry of Silly Walks , he 's also the kingpin of the enduring Pythons and a multi-millionaire businessman . |
| 5 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |
| 6 | Are you , are telling are you telling me that you 'd vote for somebody in rags on the television who promised you a better future ? |
| 7 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 8 | And what he found was a woman who understood him a great deal better than his wife ever did . ’ |
| 9 | Cambo 's most illustrious resident , attracted there by its salubrity , was the playwright Edmond Rostand , a florid Marseillaise who built himself an extraordinary house just outside the town to the north . |
| 10 | The American government has just brought out two new reports providing fresh evidence about the life and death of the man who called himself the sinful Messiah . |
| 11 | And if Derry succeed , he will murmur a silent but heartfelt ‘ thank you ’ to Kevin Heffernan , the man who gave him a new outlook and sense of purpose in the sport which has made him both a local and national hero . |
| 12 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 13 | Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary . |
| 14 | The revolt against the Mr Bush 's presidency a ran all to Mr Clinton 's benefit and not much to that of Mr Perot , the acid-tongued Texas billionaire who styled himself the unorthodox candidate of protest . |
| 15 | At last I found a young doctor who gave me a curious look , but I begged him to examine Rachel , which he did , and then looked up and said , ‘ My dear lady , your daughter has bubonic plague ! ’ |
| 16 | , writes : LIKE the duck that warned of air raids in Germany , we had a Manchester terrier who gave us a similar warning . |
| 17 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |
| 18 | The officer who handed us the unofficial communique was risking his neck by taking a public stance against racism amongst his colleagues . |
| 19 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 20 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 21 | Raith Rovers are hardly world beaters but then they haf a little help from the referee who gave them a dodgy penalty and turn down two good penalty appeals in the last two minutes . |
| 22 | In 1957 , on Sir Anthony Eden 's resignation , the Queen apparently sought and acted upon the advice of Sir Winston Churchill and Lord Salisbury , both elder statesmen of the Conservative Party who had themselves no personal ambitions at stake , and who appeared to have the confidence of their own party . |
| 23 | Thus the fourth-seeded Soutter gained revenge over the player who denied her the last place in England 's world-title winning team this year , with a hint that her rehabilitation might now be complete . |