Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this convinced Mrs Singh who left the classroom saying in an unusually dictatorial tone to the class teacher , ‘ I want you to sort him out and bring homework home . ’ |
| 2 | Perdita , having taken far too much , was now feeding the rest of the steak to the shaggy lurchers who ringed the table , but kept their distance . |
| 3 | Wife Sandra adds : ‘ He 's a man of few words who hates the slightest bit of noise . |
| 4 | Our mail gig party consisted of the Highlander who owned the dog , a woman with a very large bundle , a young man just home from his studies at a school in Germany , going to join a family party at Gairloch , and two men I would judge to be shepherds , possibly coming from Muir of Ord after selling their sheep . |
| 5 | George Walker , a tall , well-built centre-half , was a Scottish International with 29 caps who joined the Palace from Notts County early in the summer of 1936 for a fee of £500 . |
| 6 | The warning follows a case involving a member of the British Epilepsy Association who had a seizure during hospital tests involving a two day fast . |
| 7 | Critics range from Charles Lee , a former president of the British Antique Dealers Association who described the move as a ‘ smack in the eye ’ and castigated Sotheby 's for charging 25% to their customers ( i.e. 10% from vendors and 15% from buyers ) . |
| 8 | A different answer , however , might be given to a soldier who followed a leader of his own choosing — for pay ; he could not plead obedience if his conscience left him uneasy . |
| 9 | I will spring a tear , come to attention and salute that old Scottish soldier who took an alien handed to feed his family and still bring honour to the 91st of Foot . |
| 10 | Take the soldier who shoots a man to prevent an explosion . |
| 11 | However , without the unseen help of ground crew , from the soldier Who refuels the aircraft to all the technicians Who keep those aircraft serviceable , there would be no flying at all . |
| 12 | A SOLDIER who doomed a teenage girl to a living death with a dose of pure heroin was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 13 | A British soldier who joined the rebel Croatian army in Yugoslavia has been shot dead . |
| 14 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |
| 15 | The original Norman Lamont is entombed in the Somerset city 's cathedral and was a soldier who survived the battle of Waterloo . |
| 16 | Bosanquet 's book , The Philosophical Theory of the State , was , for example , designed to challenge the individualism of such thinkers as Bentham , Mill , and Spencer who posit a basic antagonism between the individual and the state . |
| 17 | Her hostility was matched by the range of influential figures including Lord Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Huxley and Herbert Spencer who reflected the popular distrust of foreigners prevalent at the time . |
| 18 | Professor Giovanni Caletti , a dermato-venereologist who runs a centre for sex education near Venice , strongly believes that the way to combat the rising incidence of sexually transmitted diseases is by improved education rather than by improving the medical service available to an at-risk population . |
| 19 | He thought that if people such as the Iroquois of North America practised a particular type of agriculture it could be assumed that their institutions were the same as those of long dead prehistoric peoples who had a similar level of technology . |
| 20 | The Slavs were one of a score of peoples who ravaged the Roman world , but they are one of the few whose cultural identity has remained intact . |
| 21 | Israel is thrilled at the pace of absorption , and accuses the Arab world of manufacturing false conflict and fear ; a conflict that is whipping up greater hostility among two peoples who claim the same land . |
| 22 | Already in 1957 Roland Barthes was claiming that ‘ today it is the colonized peoples who assume the full ethical and political condition described by Marx as being that of the proletariat ’ . |
| 23 | French and Jewish ‘ influence ’ went hand in hand for many Germans and allowed Völkisch opinion on the matter to flourish : slowly but surely the word Völk came to mean not simply ‘ people ’ , but also ‘ populist ’ , and to imply a sense of common identity and of racial superiority over those peoples who needed the French to emancipate them . |
| 24 | Nakasone was unmoved in this breathtakingly preposterous nonsense either by common sense , the protests of the many minorities living in Japan ( Ainu , Okinawans , Koreans , Chinese , Filipinos and others ) , or the judgements of historians on the melange of different peoples who provide the ancestors of the modern Japanese . |
| 25 | That fate is connected with the primal parricide , and involves at least those nations influenced by Christianity and Islam , that is , those peoples who share the Old Testament sacred writings with the Jews and claim the same God , the same Father in heaven . |
| 26 | The top game in Division Three was at Willington where Spectrum entertained Consett Cougers who stole the game three seconds from time with the first basket of the game from Ian Lockey who hit an amazing three pointer from well outside the line . |
| 27 | The problem with environmental legislation of every kind is that , while we all applaud the intentions , we know automatically that the large-scale offenders have their own scientists , barristers , public-relations campaigns and representation in the House of Lords , that government inspectorates are hopelessly understaffed , and that consequently , at a local level , the enforcers concentrate their attention on the small fry who lack the time and resources to answer back . |
| 28 | We do some in-house , and we 've also got an outside researcher called Norman Pickering who has a home laboratory where he can do just about anything … |
| 29 | We also once had a not so young horse who took a while to understand the requirements of turn on the forehand . |
| 30 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |