Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 2 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 3 | Most of the parents , however , had come intending to talk about their boys , either out of a genuine or an assumed interest in them ; and few of them were prepared to waste time on Onyx when there were real teachers on whom to vent their parental concern . |
| 4 | In making initial contact with someone , write or speak to him ( or her ) about what you are looking for — someone with whom to discuss your Christian life and pilgrimage . |
| 5 | Similar arguments for the need for flexibility were given by employers in the entertainments industry who recruit their seasonal staff on open-ended contracts and , more particularly , by employers In the holiday camps sector . |
| 6 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 7 | There is the simple , early but in some areas persistent situation of the independent producer who offers his own work for direct sale . |
| 8 | Second successive corner then for Forest and again it 's aimed at Rozario who wins it this time that 's dangerous . |
| 9 | Botha , who wins his 28th and possibly last cap for South Africa , said : ‘ We have received a wonderful welcome in England which has relaxed my players and this is something you can see reflected in our three wins here so far . |
| 10 | John Barrett , who succeeded his lifelong friend as the BBC 's senior tennis commentator , said : ‘ It 's so sad that he did n't have time to enjoy his retirement . |
| 11 | An essay in the latest issue of the Microprocessor Report makes the point that the chips that are pressing the clock speed argument in their design such as Mips , HP and DEC are the ones winning the performance not the people such as Sun , IBM and Motorola who contend its all in the instructions per cycle . |
| 12 | The only guy who goes his own way is Abede Pele , the Ghanaian who they just let roam free . |
| 13 | A woman with a vacuum cleaner whose tube I fell over , the man who sold me withered flowers , even the couple who let their dog foul outside the gate were all candidates for a warm hug and a deluge of good wishes . |
| 14 | If I 'd stayed any longer with the villain who sold me those QE2 boots , I 'd have walked from the shop with a case of tent pegs and a canoe . |
| 15 | No I could n't I mean , and these people are Jehovah Witnesses who sold me this house and my feelings about the commercial probity of Jehovah Witnesses are that they have n't any commercial probity . |
| 16 | Mr Guerin , who sold his International Signal and Control company to Ferranti in 1987 for £420m , has admitted creating numerous fictitious arms contracts that helped to create the illusion of prosperity . |
| 17 | ‘ I have a new partner , ’ he announced proudly , ‘ who sold his own tavern near the Barbican and moved across the river to be free from the prying of certain coroners ! ’ |
| 18 | Others who lack our inborn ethics would use it for evil ends . |
| 19 | We are unlikely to follow the example of the Japanese , who tax their second-hand cars so punitively that you would be grateful to buy new . |
| 20 | The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford was one popular centre for this divertissement and Celia Fiennes , who chronicled her seventeenth century journeys , records that she was there in 1694 and printed her name several times . |
| 21 | BLIND Edna Miller gave a thug who attacked her sightless chum a good walloping — with her white stick . |
| 22 | She had been propositioned at that last party by a sub-editor with bad breath , who seeing her maimed and brought down had been swift to seize the opportunity . |
| 23 | It was Botham who redeemed his poor bowling and got the crowd going with 42 not out , hitting the winning four off the third ball of the last over . |
| 24 | Sometimes this is achieved by a dominant project leader who imposes his own philosophy and then makes many of the decisions leaving only detailing for team members . |
| 25 | For those republicans who lose their own lives in advancing their struggle , there is available the full solace of their Church as IRA murderers are buried with no lesser Roman Catholic Church rites than the very priests of that Church . |
| 26 | A teenager who kidnapped his former girlfriend and her stepfather at gunpoint last year has admitted making more threats . |
| 27 | Those who said they never revealed that they have cystic fibrosis were more likely to be employed ( 64% ( 110/172 ) v 53% ( 311/585 ) , difference 2.5% to 19% ) , than those who revealed their cystic fibrosis at job interviews , but the questionnaire did not ask about responses to confidential medical questionnaires . |
| 28 | Critics who fear his so-called lean spell will diminish England 's cutting edge against Turkey next week ignore the fact that Shearer will have superior supply lines at Wembley . |
| 29 | It is not only those who dismiss the arts as self-indulgent who lay themselves open to such a charge . |
| 30 | Our tuition is recognised by the Royal Yachting Association ( RYA ) , who produced their two award winning teaching videos in conjunction with us . |