Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 2 | I remind the hon. Lady who set up the National Rivers Authority . |
| 3 | Was Tory chairman who cocked up the 1989 Euro-elections . |
| 4 | Prince Tyrion is the Elf general who turned back the great Incursion of Chaos two hundred years ago . |
| 5 | The deputy head who carried out the original study was willing to repeat the exhausting exercise , even though he was also responsible for the CCC . |
| 6 | With d'Argenlieu returned to Saigon but no more amenable to close control from Paris than Paris seemed disposed to provide it , with the French forces understandably nervous and anxious at least to clear Hanoi of their opponents , one may feel that whether it was the French or the Vietminh who brought about the final rupture does not much matter . |
| 7 | An Oxford bedsit is home for the philosopher who took on the Czechoslovakian secret state . |
| 8 | But the man who carried out the latest probe , Manchester University social sciences professor Howard Parker , said they were ‘ nothing to be terribly worried about . ’ |
| 9 | The amiable West Indian realized that the man who served up the frothy coffee was not looking at his watch in order to see what time it was but more to indicate that he knew damned well what time it was — late , too late . |
| 10 | One of them Derek Clark is the man who dreamt up the new idea … took the plunge into the sailing revolution |
| 11 | In 1984 , ERA became members of the Technical Services Agency ( TSA ) , a user-controlled community technical aid centre who carried out the in-depth survey of our flats and who issued us with a long detailed report . |
| 12 | The Prince and Princess of Wales came to a lonely hilltop in South Korea to honour the 900 men of the Gloucestershire Regiment who held back the Chinese Army pouring across the Imjin River in January 1951 . |
| 13 | And one lucky spectator who pulled out the winning raffle ticket for a copy of the world 's earliest stamp , The Penny Black , valued at £45 , was Tom Pickering of Tyne and Wear . |
| 14 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 15 | His father was a French army officer who set up the Moroccan secret service for the king . |