Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We also once had a not so young horse who took a while to understand the requirements of turn on the forehand . |
| 5 | Later in the programme , Sefton , the horse who survived an IRA bomb . |
| 6 | Sefton , the horse who survived an IRA bomb in Hyde Park eleven years ago , has died . |
| 7 | A MUSICIAN who wrote a unique series of music books for physically disabled people has found himself in their shoes after suffering a stroke . |
| 8 | I am confident we will end their three-match winning run in England , but only a fool would underestimate a side who shared a Test series in France . |
| 9 | The scoreline was cruel to a Welsh side who shaded a tight , tough first half in which they shook Australia in line-out and scrum , taking the lead with a Colin Stephens penalty after 32 minutes . |
| 10 | His friend , actor Bill Pertwee , said : ‘ He was a card who had a lot of witty charm . ’ |
| 11 | The number of patients with Barrett 's oesophagus who had an acid clearance test was too small ( three ) to make any valid comparisons with the patients without Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 12 | He 's a sybarite who joined an order which has poverty as one of its vows . |
| 13 | It came to be accepted however , that a defendant who procured a woman by the means proscribed in order to have sexual intercourse with her himself was equally within their scope . |
| 14 | In Musgrove v. Pandelis , the plaintiff occupied rooms over a garage and let part of the garage to the defendant who kept a car there . |
| 15 | THE trainer who made a living as the ghostly architect of big race success has finally etched his own name in the record books . |
| 16 | His father was a land agent who ran an estate in East Anglia belonging to John Bradford 's brother . |
| 17 | But a malfunction occurs and he comes to believe that he really has been an intelligence agent who made a startling discovery on Mars … |
| 18 | Then there was the ship 's agent who made a run for it in his car , guessing we would search his house after picking him up with some uncustomed goods . |
| 19 | The bid attracted intense media attention , most of it critical of Mr Knighton , an Isle of Man tax exile who became a millionaire through property dealings in Yorkshire and Scotland . |
| 20 | And this is a boy who used to smoke marijuana and lived in a squat with a girlfriend who had a tattoo on her backside and two kids by somebody else , if you please … ’ |
| 21 | In the rear of one of these biplanes there was a gunner with a Scarfe ring who selected a pan of rounds which he put on the gun . |
| 22 | EDMUND OSMANCZYK was a versatile and accomplished author , journalist , parliamentarian and encyclopaedist who had a lifelong and unquenchable interest in international affairs . |
| 23 | This phrase is proved as at point 5 , but as the case depends on this point , such evidence is best given by a reliable witness who had a good view of the vehicles concerned . |
| 24 | which is the first line of the fabliau Le Prestre qui ot mere a force , " The priest who had a mother forced upon him " , without believing that medieval French writers and readers of fabliaux could also be highly conscious , however flippantly , of the problematic nature of terms such as " truth " in the context of this genre . |
| 25 | A JILTED lover who drugged a young mother , tortured her with an electric shock gun and raped her in front of her children was jailed for six years yesterday . |
| 26 | A nature lover who created a lake on land to attract wildlife has been ordered to destroy his project after angering Lord Hanson . |
| 27 | A West German journalist who interviewed a man claiming to be an IRA terrorist won a court ruling last week upholding his right to protect his sources and forbidding the federal prosecutor 's office from questioning him . |
| 28 | Rafael Pardo Ruedas , a former government security adviser who played a key role in negotiating the demobilization and political integration of the left-wing April-19 Movement ( M-19 ) guerrillas in March 1990 [ see pp. 37244 ; 37311 ] , was appointed Defence Minister on Aug. 24 , replacing Gen. Oscar Botero Restrepo . |
| 29 | Fans of the Good Morning programme who saw a holiday report on Amsterdam , presented by on May 5 , may be surprised to know they were in fact watching a colleague . |
| 30 | One such is Dr Campbell Murdoch , a senior lecturer in general practice who made a study of Down 's Syndrome in Scotland . |