Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found it hard to understand what he saw in the boys he now surrounded himself with , some of whom seemed to the girls stupid and callow and bad at drawing . |
| 2 | Other able practitioners of homoeopathy in America were Allen , Nash , Boenninghausen and Boericke — all of whom added to the homoeopathic literature and whose work is still used today by students of homoeopathy . |
| 3 | The two provincial solicitors were the only two who agreed to the research following a random mailing of solicitors in the town . |
| 4 | It was not the Jerusalem leaders who agreed to the first widespread dissemination of the Word . |
| 5 | Paying passengers who clung to the railings of the MS Waldstatten as the explosive charges were detonated felt scarcely a ripple as debris dropped into the water . |
| 6 | He took a flashlight from his pocket to shine it down on the face of the petrified child who clung to the side of her mother . |
| 7 | He spoke of the state as mother , of the history of those who clung to the state as mother , of the psychology of those who wished to orphan themselves from the mother , of the novel oddity of a woman prime minister who was in fact a mother but was not nevertheless thereby motherly . |
| 8 | Two-thirds of the Lords are hereditary peers who succeeded to the title automatically on their father 's death . |
| 9 | By his first wife , Sarah Ashe , who died in 1662 , he had a son , who succeeded to the baronetcy , and a daughter . |
| 10 | King Harald , who succeeded to the throne on his father 's death in Jan. 17 , 1991 , and was sworn in on Jan. 21 [ see p. 37967 ] , was blessed in a service held at the Nidaros cathedral in Trondheim on June 23 . |
| 11 | It would seem that it was Hazelden who sold to the planners at MEHQ the idea of delivering a final knock-out blow to the two main German supply ports , Tobruk and Benghazi . |
| 12 | It was n't always the humble constable who resorted to the fist or stick . |
| 13 | Technically , the methods which Dale and his colleagues used had become archaic , as Dale ( who lived to the age of 93 in full intellectual vigour ) well knew . |
| 14 | Surely , a full life even for someone who lived to the advance age of 92 . |
| 15 | The Caribou Indians , who lived to the west of Hudson Bay in Canada , were dependent for their food supply on the caribou herds . |
| 16 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 17 | Cleveland Council Council welfare rights officer Tom Lamb said the figures for 1991–92 indicated that 75pc of claimants who applied to the Social Fund were refused community care grants . |
| 18 | Cherry tried to free himself from 20-stone Flashman , who tumbled to the ground , taking with him a handful of material from Cherry 's ripped coat . |
| 19 | Those who lent to the turnpike trusts were even more localised than those who bought canal stock . |
| 20 | In Brixton he interviewed yet another man who admitted to the murder but was swiftly cleared . |
| 21 | Within hours of the attack police arrested Kazumi Tajiri , who admitted to the shooting , and who was identified as one of the leaders of an ultra-nationalist right-wing group — Seiki Juku , variously translated as " Spiritual Justice School " , or " Righteous-Minded Academy " . |
| 22 | They became an essential part of the practices of the Israelite tribes who penetrated to the northern parts of Canaan and integrated with local people . |
| 23 | The last man I had hired came with me and assured me that the girl who rode to the house was Jenna Bryant . |
| 24 | Each time they sank down , they clustered closely , finally expelling one of their number , who fluttered to the ground and began — as if under compulsion — to walk , or rather scuttle , towards us ; whereupon the other birds fled into the shelter of their tree . |
| 25 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 26 | But if you c if there 's a burglar who got to the house , |
| 27 | Little research has studied adults who got to the stage of applying to do a course but who then did not enrol for it . |
| 28 | One of the odder aspects of the 1992 election was the anecdotal evidence from polling station officers who reported to the Market Research Society that many people tried to vote , but only discovered that they were not on the register when they got to the polling station . |
| 29 | It continued to lose weight until it caught the attentioin of a neighbour who reported to the RSPCA that winter . |
| 30 | Back along the waste chain , the Liverpool dockers who objected to the import of exactly this type of chemical should be aware that PCBs are moving about our roads all the time . |