Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 2 | And one man who seemed to go on for years was Cecil Dunford or " Slap " as he was known , an active man in all his pursuits in the village . |
| 3 | On top of her contribution to household expenses she had unobtrusively helped her mother by buying necessities for her brothers , who seemed to grow out of clothes and shoes by the week . |
| 4 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 5 | And even those captives who 'd got back to Danu , the town I mean , had been merely mice — helpless and squeaking — rolled this way and that as the cat pleased . |
| 6 | It warned that : ‘ One wallow does n't make a summer ’ , a reference to the misleading optimism being gleaned by those who kept harking back to Ireland 's great performance in the World Cup . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you remember that old lady who kept coming in for Roald Dahl , saying he was a woman ? ’ sobbed Denise . |
| 8 | It was well for Breeze that all the holidays she had spent in St Petrock 's had accustomed her to invalids — but even so , she had never seen anybody who looked as ill as the old , old man who lay propped up on cushions in the corner facing the engine . |
| 9 | one young golfer who did grow up to greatness is Sandy Lyle … he 's in Thame on Sunday to open up the new Oxfordshire Golf Club we 'll be meeting up with him on Monday … |
| 10 | The funeral directors ' lobby is very strong ; I suppose it was naïve of me not to have realized before that they would clamp down hard on any wholesaler who dared to step out of line and supply the public direct . |
| 11 | For instance , a car manufacturer who wished to find out about UK attitudes towards diesel engines might research only those strata from which it already knows that it derives ( say ) 80% of its sales . |
| 12 | They were soon joined by Duncan Curr , member of Dublin Street Baptist Church and Chairman of Christian Aid/CEEC , who had bicycled in from Juniper Green – and eventually , ny me . |
| 13 | And John Kelly , who had to go off with hamstring trouble , is also out of tonight 's match . |
| 14 | Behind the gothic-arch pigeon hole , counting out change , she saw the man in boots , the man who had hung about at Faith 's funeral . |
| 15 | While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard . |
| 16 | Pearn and the members of his staff had started a monthly publication called Burma Today , giving news brought out by men who had gone in with Wingate , photographs taken by army photographers or by RAF planes on patrol , and first-hand accounts by people smuggled out of occupied Burma or coming out from the growing number of liberated areas . |
| 17 | Brian Guthrie interviewed Mary , Mavin Shulver ( who had gone along for support ) and some Class members , and the Broadcast went out over the air on the following Saturday . |
| 18 | At the wedding a host of best wishes were received from the other side of the world where many relatives called Jones still remembered young Carol who had gone off to Australia as a child and was now all grown up and about to get wed . |
| 19 | On the opposite side were the men who had marched up from Levenmouth . |
| 20 | It was a picture of Louise Butler and Terry recognised her at once as the girl who had run out in front of his car on the night of the rave . |
| 21 | Stan Charlton joined Crystal Palace FC from Exeter City in the summer of 1928 , linking up again with his former manager at St James Park , Fred Maven , who had moved up to London from Devon in November 1927 . |
| 22 | Stephen Gardiner , who was Secretary to King Henry VIII , and Edward Foxe , the King 's Almoner , lodged there in attendance on the King , who had moved out of London . |
| 23 | Although Gundovald received open support from men who had fallen out with Guntram , or who had been left without a patron at Chilperic 's death , Theodore of Marseilles claimed that he had been ordered to receive Gundovald by Childebert 's magnates . |
| 24 | Meanwhile they replenished their land-holdings by conquest and by the confiscation of the estates of those who had fallen out of favour : rebels and criminals . |
| 25 | Bernadette 's tearful sister Rosie , who had flown in from Germany , said : ‘ All the relatives are giving Farrah lots of hugs and kisses . |
| 26 | Nick was walking in the garden with his father-in-law , a tall , lean , bald-headed Scot who had flown down to London for a couple of days and come out to see his daughter between one business appointment and another . |
| 27 | In a controversial decision on Feb. 23 , Elisabeth Kopp , who had stepped down as Justice Minister in January 1989 [ see p. 36473 ] , was acquitted by the criminal law division of Federal Supreme Court ( Bundesstrafgericht ) on charges of violating professional secrecy . |
| 28 | He had sent for Philip who had raced up from Wales to coach and instruct this miraculous son in a great Shakespearian role to be performed in an Oxford college before an audience of West End luminaries ( Gielgud , Terence Rattigan ) : ‘ We worked on it line by line , hour after hour , into the early morning … |
| 29 | However , Ridley said that , through ex gratia payments by the government , those who had invested up to £50,000 would be able to recover 90 per cent of their investment ; investors would be able to recover 80 per cent of investments between £50,000 and £100,000 and 60 per cent of investments over £100,000 . |
| 30 | Police did not restore order until commanded to do so in the small hours of Aug. 27 by President Zhelyu Zhelev ( who had rushed back to Sofia from Varna , on the opposite side of the country ) . |