Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young mother says she 's living in fear for her life after a threatening phone call from the man who kidnapped her at gunpoint . |
| 2 | He did recall the rule , he cordially disliked women who flung themselves at his feet threatening breach of promise actions , and moreover he did n't like the look of that jumped-up Pickwick there . |
| 3 | Robin Gurdon , who met them at army headquarters , was to guide the party through the southernmost part of the British lines as they hoped that by skirting the edge of the depression , they would avoid any main concentrations of German troops . |
| 4 | Norman Williamson who rode him at Leopardstown , observed afterwards that he was a National horse when talking to Richard Dunwoody about the race and if Richards has retained his old magic , then there could quite well be another National winner destined to return home in triumph to his Lake District stables . |
| 5 | ‘ I know lads who got theirs at eighteen in Cyprus . ’ |
| 6 | Carolyn Bartholomew who visited her at Kensington Palace three days after William was born recalls : ‘ She was thrilled with both herself and the baby . |
| 7 | ‘ Women of middle class origins who found themselves at the beginning of their working lives unequipped to promote themselves within occupations which traditionally demanded either precise qualifications or highly developed aptitude ’ . |
| 8 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 9 | St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time . |
| 10 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 11 | Joachim died , probably in Denmark , in 1535 ; some time before 1541 his relatives placed Daniel with a branch of his grandmother 's Wieland family , who trained him at their lead , copper , and silver mines and smelting works in the Rauris and Gastein valleys in the Tyrol , part of the archbishopric of Salzburg . |
| 12 | His second outing was particularly encouraging , since the filly who beat him at Headquarters was none other than Henry Cecil 's Felucca , already a leading fancy for next year 's Classics . |
| 13 | They were last seen by a taxi driver who dropped them at the railway station more than 24 hours earlier . |
| 14 | Taping rehearsals also reduces the likelihood of arguments about who played what at the last rehearsal . |
| 15 | If the drug which you took is known to cause foetal damage , then it would appear that the doctor who advised you at the hospital has been negligent . |
| 16 | If the drug which you took is known to cause foetal damage , then it would appear that the doctor who advised you at the hospital has been negligent . |
| 17 | ‘ I think the rise in fascism is disgusting , and I thought the most disgusting thing Morrissey did was when he said it was a National Front skinhead who threw something at him because I did n't see any fascism in the crowd at all . |
| 18 | Had n't he already said that he disliked women who threw themselves at him ? |
| 19 | The subject is believed to be Gian Giacomo Caprotti , a pupil of da Vinci who joined him at the age of 10 , later becoming one of his lovers . |
| 20 | Glasses , a beard and lots of grey hairs — 47-year-old Rod Stewart 's new look seems to have stunned his model wife Rachel Hunter who joined him at a Los Angeles club . |
| 21 | Ingrid , who joined her at Howard a couple of years after leaving college , got hauled in to help with Brownies and go camping in grass shelters the girls had built . |
| 22 | The Marquis de Custine , who observed him at Ems in 1839 , thought that he would " command obedience by the inherent appeal of charm , rather than by fear " . |
| 23 | His mentor , the man who taught him at university , is married to a woman who is half-Jewish , and their son has worked for Hess for years as his adviser . |
| 24 | Was that the young man who killed himself at the station ? |
| 25 | A High Court judge reserved judgment until later this week on a damages claim by the family of Paul Worrell , aged 21 , who hanged himself at Brixton Prison , London , in 1982 . |
| 26 | As they walked he offered her his arm , unlike most punters , who followed her at a discreet distance . |
| 27 | PAMELA : Whether sir , the nun who followed you at the masquerade is not the Countess of Pembroke ? |
| 28 | But today , she could not take part , she pleaded illness , she invoked Caterina , who needed her at home , she said , for she was still poorly . |
| 29 | Mrs Buck 's taken out an official complaint against the officers who arrested her at the chemist in Oxford . |
| 30 | During 1812 he attracted the attention of William , second Earl Fitzwilliam [ q.v. ] , who employed him at Milton , his Northamptonshire home ; he became house steward in November 1816 . |