Example sentences of "who [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They included illustrator Walter Crane , woodcutter Claire Leighton , illustrator and mural painter Eric Ravilious , architect Keith Murray , graphic designer and water-colourist David Gentleman , and Eduardo Paolozzi who has worked with Wedgwood on several occasions since the 1970s . |
| 2 | The current warm-weather soundtrack of choice for discerning numbskulls is Ugly Kid Joe , a quartet of stoned surfers who 've risen to power on the Young Dumb Fun ticket in a way that critically-defied combos like The Ramones never managed . |
| 3 | It told the story of a man who had searched for happiness on an island like Koraloona , only to be disillusioned , yet unable to tear himself away . |
| 4 | In France Mortimer became Isabella 's lover , and the two of them gained the support of other English lords who had travelled to France on diplomatic business and had then defected . |
| 5 | This was the final stage of a two-year investigation into the actions of five senators , all but one of them Democrats , who had intervened with regulators on Keating 's behalf at a time when he contributed some $1,300,000 to their campaigns and political causes . |
| 6 | But the more the Duchess of Teck received the more she spent , and shopkeepers , who had sent round goods on a royal promise to pay later , started pressing for payment now . |
| 7 | An actor who had written to Meredith on many occasions — always enclosing , as his wife was at pains to point out , his page number in Spotlight and a stamped addressed envelope , without ever once receiving so much as an acknowledgement in return — was unfortunately dead . |
| 8 | The numbers under his command had grown since he bad re-crossed the Border , with the accession of some additional clans and the arrival of 800 men , Scots and Irish formerly in the French service , including two squadrons of horse , who had landed at Montrose on 22 November . |
| 9 | Terhune was an assault specialist solo who had sub-contracted for H-M on several occasions , and Rodriguez was their top Colorado Op , further qualified because he came from the quarry 's home turf . |
| 10 | James Cossins , who had worked with Crawford on stage in The Anniversary and in the film How I Won the War , remembered his guest appearance in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em as a pompous man running a public relations weekend course that Frank attended . |
| 11 | Director of photography David Watkin , who had worked with Lester on The Knack , remembered with trepidation one of the stunts Crawford insisted on doing in this new film . |
| 12 | Among them was G. H. Hitchings , who had worked at Harvard on the quantitative estimation of purines and on the purification of the anti-anaemia principle in liver , and at Western Reserve on studies which led later to the discovery of folic acid . |
| 13 | Joaquim , the next oldest after Martinho , had been the leader in their various scrapes ; even Rogerio ( who had died with Joaquim on the pillion in a motor-bike accident ) had seemed more remarkable than Osvaldo . |
| 14 | The UN Secretary-General 's newly appointed special representative in Somalia , Ismat Kittani of Iraq , arrived in Mogadishu on Nov 8 , replacing Mohamed Sahnoun who had resigned amid controversy on Oct. 27 [ see p 39133 ] . |
| 15 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries those who had climbed to prosperity on the back of the slave trade were regularly leaving property and assets worth anything between £16,000 and £1 million . |
| 16 | The veteran Jacobite who had arrived with Charles on the Du Teillay , the Marquis of Tullibardine , climbed a small knoll and hoisted Charles 's white , blue and red silk flag before reading James 's proclamation , quoted earlier , appointing Charles as his regent . |
| 17 | The officer in charge of the post could not believe that a couple who had arrived by air on Tuesday should be returning home by car on Wednesday . |
| 18 | Baku , meanwhile , remained without special security measures or curfew restrictions , and gangs of looters were said to be attacking abandoned Armenian homes largely unchallenged by the sole detachment of 1,000 Interior Ministry troops who had arrived from Moscow on Jan. 14 . |
| 19 | The statement , which coincided with the inspection of a research centre near Salman Pak , 30 km south-east of Baghdad , by a team of UN biological weapons experts who had arrived in Iraq on Aug. 2 , was confirmed by the team 's head , David Kelly , who said that Iraq had undertaken research using anthrax and the food poisoning toxin , botulinum , but that his team had found no evidence of the manufacture of biological weapons . |
| 20 | They also confirmed that an American named David Lovejoy had made a series of calls to Hussein Niknam , the Iranian chargé d'affaires , about a team of American agents , led by Charles Dennis McKee and Matthew Kevin Gannon , who had arrived in Beirut on a mission concerned with the hostages . |
| 21 | The ceasefire was brokered on Jan. 2 by UN special envoy Cyrus Vance , who had arrived in Yugoslavia on Dec. 31 . |
| 22 | During the election campaign the PCCh , which was not legalized , had announced on Nov. 9 , 1989 , that it would work for the victory of the presidential opposition candidate ; the former secretary-general of the PCCh , Luis Corvalán , who had returned to Chile on Oct. 12 after 13 years in exile , had made a similar declaration . |
| 23 | Police chief Amarjeet Singh Samra said the most wanted people were six brothers who had left for Dubai on Thursday and Friday , just before the explosions . |
| 24 | The moves , counter moves , rejections , romances and broken hearts are spun together effortlessly through the music and will strike a chord with any teenagers and ex-teenagers who have fallen in love on a Saturday night . |
| 25 | An especially important result of the establishment of both the HIDB and the WIIC is that at long last there are professional jobs in the Western Isles for at least some of those who have gone to university on the mainland and have previously had to stay there to work . |
| 26 | The book also records the comments of 20 UK gaijin ( foreign ) scientists who have worked in Japan on these schemes . |