Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His revelation touched a nerve among viewers , many of whom phoned in to say how his courage had helped them admit their own problem for the first time . |
| 2 | There are endless obstacles to romance , in the shape of their teenage children , ex-lovers and Charlie 's ex-wife , all of whom pitch in to make them doubt their true feelings . |
| 3 | Seeing just how comprehensive a work this is , with factory serial number , date of registration , date of next C of A expiry , owner's/operator 's name and probable base all listed , I can only surmise that the note-scribblers/pocket memo mumblers — many of whom seem not to have the slightest knowledge or interest in the type of aeroplane on which the letters are painted — are performing the latter-day equivalent of the sacred ritual which I and many others who have long since outgrown it once enacted in John W.R. Taylor 's ABC of Civil Aircraft Makings . |
| 4 | Press reports cited evidence of his involvement with the USA , including his use of a US military helicopter to travel from Beirut to Cyprus in 1986 and his involvement in the release of three US hostages , the Rev. Benjamin Weir , freed on Sept. 14 , 1985 , and Lawrence Jenco and David Jacobsen , released on July 26 and Nov. 2 , 1986 , respectively , all of whom turned out to have been traded for arms . |
| 5 | It can be seen that data were collected at referral for all those who agreed initially to take part in the project . |
| 6 | This point is supported by Johnson , who goes on to demonstrate that , as a result , Chilean industrialists have not developed their own independent ideology and value system . |
| 7 | They use the 80860 as a vector processor for complementary co-operative processing , explains Parsys 's commercial director Ian Coburn , who goes on to stress that the company has no plans to use the Intel processor as a replacement for the delayed T9000 . |
| 8 | I appreciate that the number of cases in which the taker and driver away is not the driver who goes on to cause personal injury or damage will be comparatively few , but I ask my right hon. Friend whether it is necessary to make such a draconian change in the traditional principles of British law , or to do it by reversing the normal burden of proof . |
| 9 | This is quoted and endorsed by Meyers ( Homosexuality and Literature , 148 ) , who goes on to describe Lawrence 's Aaron 's Rod as possessing many components of ‘ a homosexual novel ’ including ‘ an intense hatred and fear of women , who are characterised in two male gatherings as threatening , frightening and repulsive ’ , and ‘ a symbolically castrated hero who is afraid to let himself go in heterosexual love and runs away from his three women ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 10 | Who goes out to make way for Gallacher ? |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway I 'm a twitcher , one of these mad guys who goes anywhere to see a bird he 's not seen before . |
| 12 | One thing that I always wanted not to happen to me was to become like a TV cameraman who goes home to watch TV and says , ‘ Aw , look at that lighting , ’ or something trivial that really has nothing to do with the actual story . |
| 13 | The quiet man with the violin , who goes home to play trios with his quiet and loving wife and his quiet and loving daughter , in his quiet and well-loved house along that quiet and rural lane , with London lying quiet at his feet — and even surrounded by this best of lives he 's plainly a depressive ! |
| 14 | In typical Whig language , Ferguson concluded that the Sovereign having no other Ground of claim to any Power or Prerogative , save what he hath from the Constitution which hath settled and vested them in him , That Prince who goes about to overthrow this , does all he can to cancel his own Right . |
| 15 | There is a significant tendency for staff in more senior positions ( who tend also to have more years of service ) to recall the review better , to believe the introduction of the review to have been more adequate , to be more involved in the review activities , more likely to keep a special diary as part of the review and more likely to make use of information routinely available for the review . |
| 16 | The significance of this in the context of this section is simply as a reminder that those groups who tend not to use bank loans and credit cards — generally older people in the lower income and socio-economic groups , and women as opposed to men — probably have not consciously chosen not to . |
| 17 | The first six male entries drawn from the hat will receive a pair of GT 35s while the first six female entries will win a pair of Lady GTs — these are specially designed for women who tend not to want high ankle support . |
| 18 | Mr Kumar made comments about referee Roger Wiseman , who asked not to officiate again this season after being struck on the head by a fan when trouble erupted at the end of Birmingham 's Third Division game against Stoke on Feb 29 . |
| 19 | I still get a childish kick out of pretending that I am a wide-eyed seal who thinks only to play . |
| 20 | ‘ Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener , courage the greater as our strength grows less … may he lament forever who thinks now to turn from this war-play . ’ |
| 21 | At one stage it looked as if the balloon was going to take off regardless of the wishes of its crew who fought valiantly to keep it tethered . |
| 22 | Ardoyne woman Marion Kane , who fought hard to turn the scheme into reality , said : ‘ This is a dream come true and goes to show what can be achieved if local people are determined to have what they deserve . ’ |
| 23 | It is the image of the tough , resourceful ‘ lone ranger ’ figure who rides in to rescue the town from the wicked cattle baron . |
| 24 | So-called ‘ horror stories ’ ( gory illustrations depicting the de-beaking of turkeys , dogs being hanged , huntsmen exulting over the corpse of a fox , or reports of a senile researcher who failed properly to anaesthetise his animal subjects ) may well be effective copy and have an impact upon gullible readers but are of limited argumentative worth . |
| 25 | A quality innings of 46 from Crowe ended after 135 minutes when he had to play a Lewis leg-cutter and the ball carried to second slip Hick , who lunged forward to reach and hold it . |
| 26 | Leavis , who countered How To Read with a booklet , How to Teach Reading , and Winters , who declared in 1937 , ‘ Mr Pound resembles a village loafer who sees much and understands little ’ , told the same story as Tate : Pound was a naïf , an imagination and sensory apparatus that consistently performed better than it knew , in ways that the maker 's own discursive intelligence failed to comprehend or measure up to ; in Winters 's memorable and mordant judgement of 1943 , ‘ a sensibility without a mind , or with as little mind as is well possible ’ . |
| 27 | Another winner at the weekend was the Oxfordshire based rider David O'Connor who rode home to take the big prize at the British Open Horse Trials at Gatcombe Park . |
| 28 | Another winner at the weekend was the Oxfordshire based rider David O'Connor who rode home to take the big prize at the British Open Horse Trials at Gatcombe Park . |
| 29 | Although I must say it is difficult to find a butcher now who understands how to hang meat , dear me , yes … . ’ |
| 30 | The managing director who suddenly assumes a very friendly , familiar manner may be regarded with suspicion ; the accountant who turns up to work in his track suit may be ridiculed . |