Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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1 | A few lay on the ground in exhausted or inebriated sleep , oblivious to children and dogs who clambered over them , or to the kicks from porters who found them in the way . |
2 | The party has now discarded the leaders with overly Nazi political pasts who controlled it in the 1970s . |
3 | This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place . |
4 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
5 | I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed . |
6 | In fact , I would suggest that anybody who has one ounce of individuality should never go to a business school — and I 've said this often at Cranfield and London — because you 're structured by academics who measure you in the science of business . |
7 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
8 | Any members who find themselves in the Adelaide area can be assured of a warm welcome there . |
9 | Two of the players who beat them in the Dunhill Cup final carry England 's hopes . |
10 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |
11 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
12 | Children benefit also from more than usually grammatical speech from adults who address them in the early stages in a fashion tailored to their learning needs . |
13 | The second revolution was accompanied in the borderlands by violence , plundering , exactions and the establishment of a dictatorial regime … in the past , a small group of Tsarist bureaucrats oppressed them ; today , the same group of people or others who cloak themselves in the name of the Bolsheviks perpetuate in the borderlands the same regime . |
14 | It has turned into the longest slump since the 1930s because real interest rates have remained punitively high , squeezing millions of home-owners who over-reached themselves in the housing boom . |