Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beauty was a draught horse who belonged to a suburban dairy . |
| 2 | And perhaps the best-known of them all ; the apparently harmless street musician who came to a little township called Hamelin , and agreed to rid the town of rats by means of his music … |
| 3 | There was also an infermiere , a male nurse , named Luigi who looked like a retired boxer . |
| 4 | There was a knock at the door ; I opened it and there he was , a tall , slightly stooping figure who spoke with a gentle voice . |
| 5 | The major was also writing to Emma and a mother-of-three who worked in a northern factory . |
| 6 | A NINE-year-old boy who went on a six-month crime spree and carried out more than 50 thefts , went back to school yesterday after police were forced to let him walk free . |
| 7 | The other two were targeted by a gunman who stepped from a white Peugeot car at the junction of Castle Street , Millfield . |
| 8 | The other two were targeted by a gunman who stepped from a white Peugeot car at the junction of Castle Street , Millfield . |
| 9 | A GUNMAN who fled into a public loo after a bungled raid in Ashbourne , Derbys , was arrested when the attendant locked him in . |
| 10 | Nearby , grinning like the cat who fell into a vast underground lake of cream , Paterson 's gangly 20-year-old sidekick Thrash — aka Kristian Weston — attempts communication . |
| 11 | There is an even older version of the song , describing the fate of a young lady who died of a broken heart after being jilted by her lover . |
| 12 | The Welsh manager , Robert Norster , was , of course , a superb lineout specialist who relied on a good technique cleverly utilised to confound taller opponents . |
| 13 | ‘ There was some trouble at the end of last year about a little gipsy child who died from a burst appendix . |
| 14 | This was a wicked demon who lived beneath a primordial swamp , in which seethed evil beings and spirits . |
| 15 | Blossom would have been a suitable name for the large oilman who arrived in a huge lorry to deliver the central heating oil . |
| 16 | On 3 July 1658 Pierre Pérignon entered the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Vanne at Verdun , a congregation founded by Dom Didier de la Cour ( 1550–1623 ) , a strict monk who insisted on a high degree of learning and intellectual activity . |
| 17 | A writer who went on a police-escorted tour of Los Angeles 's red light districts to help him with an alleged magazine article is now wanted on suspicion of strangling three prostitutes in the city , police said yesterday . |
| 18 | After the banning of The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall was denied the recognition she deserved for her mastery of the narrative technique of interior monologue and as a writer who dealt with a great variety of themes , such as World War I , materialism , Catholicism , and the suppression of women by patriarchal society . |
| 19 | A convicted child molester who escaped from a mental hospital has still not been found . |
| 20 | But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house . |
| 21 | The one who turned up to preside over my fiscal destruction was particularly dismal , a desolately unattractive woman in a pink cardie who looked like a sitting duck for household cleanser advertisements . |
| 22 | ‘ How 's that ? ’ the girl asked , but then the phone rang and there was no time to worry because they were swinging into action with the RTA , two victims of a car smash who came on a blue light with sirens wailing . |
| 23 | Down the road a man in his fifties — a window cleaner — lost his wife who died after a long and harrowing illness . |
| 24 | In 1983 , for example , the Toronto Star gave a moving account of an evangelical Christian minister and his wife who went through a painful rethinking of their position on abortion after experiencing an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 25 | Suppose , for example , that a person were to walk behind another person who suffered from a physical deformity ( such as a limp ) imitating it , for the amusement of his friends . |
| 26 | A WOMAN who went to a Turkish base camp is to talk of her experiences to a Darlington audience next week . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps an astronaut who fell into a black hole would be able to make money at roulette by remembering where the ball went before he placed his bet . |
| 28 | In real time , an astronaut who fell into a black hole would come to a sticky end . |
| 29 | So perhaps an astronaut who fell into a black hole would be able to make money at roulette by remembering where the ball went before he placed his bet . |
| 30 | Another servant entered , a young page who announced in a high , shrill voice that the duke had received Sir John 's message and would be with him as soon as dignity and circumstances would allow . |