Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If so , you could be the accountant who so incensed wildlife artist Adrian Rigby that he felt compelled to put his feelings about the profession into paint . |
| 32 | It has peacocks , which like to sit on the seats when visitors are scarce , a compound with a few docile wild animals in , a small lake , a free-standing part of a Gothic cloister from the ruined abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan which was removed and re-erected here , and , if you can find them among the shrubbery , busts of two French poets , one of whom was born in the town while the other went to school here : the native was the arch Romantic Théophile Gautier , whose bust in the Jar din Massey was sculpted by his exotic daughter Judith , the outsider Jules Laforgue , the strange , consumptive young poet who so influenced T. S. Eliot and died at twenty-seven . |
| 33 | Lord Donaldson said that Mr Goodwin was a very young trainee journalist who only left university this summer . |
| 34 | As forecast , there was an unexpected men 's victor with Antonio Pinto , from Portugal , who only began marathon running last year , winning in 2hr 10min 02sec . |
| 35 | One lady who only saw Terris once would not work in the station again and demanded a move to a ‘ normal station ’ . |
| 36 | After about thirty years with a genuine French landlord who only sold beer in half-pints , among his other idiosyncrasies , the brewery bowed to public opinion and renamed the place the French Pub . |
| 37 | She had two children who only spoke Swedish , and she found she could n't learn the language . |
| 38 | Markward of Anweiler , who only approached Innocent when the situation was hopeless for him after the formation of a league of cities against imperial domination . |
| 39 | She wanted to co-ordinate an article about trees and pollution and Jay and Francis had discovered a photographer who only did trees and did them brilliantly . |
| 40 | Walker , who only switched sports in August , is named in the 29-strong squad that travels to Spain next month as part of the build-up to the Five Nations ' Championship . |
| 41 | Encouraged by the Josephite hierarchy , who rightly suspected Nonpossessor sympathies among his closest advisers , the Tsar became increasingly impervious to advice . |
| 42 | All the famous Greek philosophers were disdainful of the artisan , the man who merely made things . |
| 43 | To this end , Hoffman-La Roche , who annually reaped profits during the late 1960s of about $40 million , was prepared to exert effective pressure on the legislature . |
| 44 | The small scale of its activities was always mentioned : it was estimated that of the 30,000 boys who annually left London elementary schools , not more than 2% came under its influence and that of similar organizations . |
| 45 | Conway , who prudently forbade Taylor to dedicate any of his works to himself , eventually persuaded him to come and live on his estates in Ireland as a ‘ lecturer ’ , which was a more acceptable title to the authorities than ‘ chaplain ’ . |
| 46 | Certificates were awarded to 63 girls who all passed 93pc of them passed with either a merit or distinction . |
| 47 | The mandarins behind them , who all carried mirror wands like the emperor 's , followed their lead and stretched themselves full length on the flagstones of the courtyard . |
| 48 | And it contrasts with double Grand Slam winners Will Carling , Jon Webb , Rory Underwood , Rob Andrew , Mick Skinner and Peter Winterbottom who all went south to further their careers . |
| 49 | Among them will be three Warrington men who all had transplants at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester . |
| 50 | Julian had a humbler conception of her task than the other prophetic reformers I have mentioned , who all experienced God as an absolute imperative to action and felt that they had a mission to defy the religious and secular establishment of their day . |
| 51 | She referred to her own family : parents , brother and sisters who all spoke English at home . |
| 52 | As Philip Bacon put it , ‘ A quite extraordinary group of people who all courted publicity were playing the game . |
| 53 | He is the fifth manager to leave Crewe Park in the last two years following in the footsteps of Paul O'Gara , Terry Nicholson , Jack Walsh and Sammy Watson , who all parted company with the club last season . |
| 54 | I was in the US over the summer ( yes , I just happened to see a couple of the England games ) and it was the same there — ordinary match-going footie fans who like a drink and a bit of crack ( fun , that is ) , and who all supported loads of different teams mixing together happily enough . |
| 55 | I shook my head and was saved from further entreaties by the arrival once again of the children who all wanted choice titbits from the grownups , ‘ table ’ , kisses and praise . |
| 56 | But I 'm trying to track down the man who brutally murdered Sandy , your sister . |
| 57 | In January , one ship had visited Dili bringing four officers and some 50 reinforcements who apparently thought independence meant lack of discipline . |
| 58 | However none of the mourners ( who apparently included Salieri ) wanted to undertake the hour 's walk to the cemetery . |
| 59 | I also pay tribute to the professionalism of the emergency services , who naturally faced difficulties in getting to the injured and in getting them out of the tunnel for treatment . |
| 60 | On entering the luxurious interior of the shop and making our way to the carpet department , there were friendly ‘ good mornings ’ from the staff who obviously recognised Eddie as a regular . |