Example sentences of "[noun prp] [Wh pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this convinced Mrs Singh who left the classroom saying in an unusually dictatorial tone to the class teacher , ‘ I want you to sort him out and bring homework home . ’ |
| 2 | Bosanquet 's book , The Philosophical Theory of the State , was , for example , designed to challenge the individualism of such thinkers as Bentham , Mill , and Spencer who posit a basic antagonism between the individual and the state . |
| 3 | Her hostility was matched by the range of influential figures including Lord Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Huxley and Herbert Spencer who reflected the popular distrust of foreigners prevalent at the time . |
| 4 | The top game in Division Three was at Willington where Spectrum entertained Consett Cougers who stole the game three seconds from time with the first basket of the game from Ian Lockey who hit an amazing three pointer from well outside the line . |
| 5 | We do some in-house , and we 've also got an outside researcher called Norman Pickering who has a home laboratory where he can do just about anything … |
| 6 | It was lads from Garforth who stole the 1829 pole , but a group from Aberford managed to make off with the top half in 1907 . |
| 7 | On the last occasion , Northland had just six seats available and the Sinn Fein councillor was Barney McFadden who fought the Rural ward this time around . |
| 8 | The big Southampton striker does n't score enough for his country ; this was only his second for Northern Ireland — but it was Hughes tried a shot off the edge of the box , the ball cannoned off a Lithuanian defender and into the path of Dowie who rifled an unstoppable drive past Martin Kenas from 14 yards . |
| 9 | Pat McWilliams who won the Ladbroke in 1991 on another former Scott horse , The Iliad , also used Homer 's stables as a springboard to the sort of fame he achieved at Cheltenham later that year when he stormed home on Destriero to land legendary gambler Noel Furlong a ‘ touch ’ estimated at around £1m . |
| 10 | There are still very many families in Tiree who pay no rent , and these have a settlement of their own , called ‘ The Moss , ’ where some very poor creatures dwell , and must have but a miserable livelihood . |
| 11 | It was Verhencamp who discovered the truth — female anis throw each other 's eggs out of the nest . |
| 12 | I mean , it was n't Dora who rang the police . ’ |
| 13 | The Secretary of State for the Environment , Brice Lalonde ( Ecology Generation ) , was promoted to Minister-Delegate responsible for the prevention of technological and natural disasters , while Hélène Dorlhac ( Union for French Democracy ) , Secretary of State for the Family , also took over responsibility for the Elderly , from Théo Braun who left the government . |
| 14 | Depending on the language spoken and preferred by Canadians in your audience , you can quote from either English or French authors , or both , as well as modern Canadian authors , or traditional favourites such as L. M. Montgomery who wrote the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables and Mazo de la Roche who wrote the Jalna series . |
| 15 | A special mention to Blainead Bergin who produced the culinary classics on Saturday and Sunday — it was simply delicious ! . . |
| 16 | A rather odd concoction of wine , oil , salt and corn was sprinkled on to the house by Midlands , West & Wales director , Martin Smout who performed the ancient ‘ topping out ’ ceremony . |
| 17 | Then a duet with Mr Johnstone who had a pleasant light tenor . |
| 18 | Compared to his first collector , Peggy Guggenheim , or to his first apologist , Clement Greenberg , or to the art critic , Harold Rosenberg who invented the term Action Painter for him , he was indeed a goy and a redneck . |
| 19 | It 's Lear and Edgar who rescue the night . |
| 20 | He held out the salver to Galvone who took the sheet , unfolded it , read the few words on the paper and handed it to Hauser . |
| 21 | The second half continued in the same exciting pattern as the first , but for all Witney 's pressure , it was Yate who took the lead . |
| 22 | Steve Cauthen had partnered Pebbles in her first three races of the season but Pat Eddery had ridden her with sublime confidence in the Champion Stakes when Cauthen was claimed for Slip Anchor , and it was Eddery who had the mount at Aqueduct . |
| 23 | WASHINGTON — Like the whiting in Alice in Wonderland who wanted the snail to go faster because of the porpoise on his tail , Americans are constantly worried about the pace of their lives . |
| 24 | Prime Minister David Lange may be know internationally as the David who slew the nuclear giant , but locally he 's better known as the man whose monetarist Minister of Finance , Roger Douglas , has led a successful crusade to corporatise government and unshackle the economuy . |
| 25 | It was David who broke the silence that followed . |
| 26 | But there were still things that needed to be said , explanations to be given , and in the end it was David who broke the silence . |
| 27 | It was David who gave the grim reply to the secretary 's question . |
| 28 | Doctor Sloan of Ayr who conducted a post mortem examination on John was approached later by a group of old miners with the question , The doctor confessed that he had not paid particular attention to the man 's feet , whereat the miners went off with knowing expressions on their faces ; superstition had convinced them that if the doctor had looked he would have seen cloven hoofs , proving that the devil had appeared in the guise of John Brown for some evil purpose of his own . |
| 29 | Here 's how the paper described the welcome given to Austin Currie who attended the conference as a fraternal delegate from Fine Gael : |
| 30 | Nevertheless , that Wilfrid enjoyed good relations with Aethelwealh is confirmed by Bede who records the king 's gift to him of 87 hides of land for a monastery at Selsey ( HE IV , 13 ) , the site of the bishopric subsequently established among the south Saxons in the time of Daniel , bishop of Winchester ( HE V , 18 ) . |