Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Donaldson said that Mr Goodwin was a very young trainee journalist who only left university this summer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yet this lone , beautiful , and sensitive actress who openly espoused Ibsen and portrayed his bold , modern women did not find it easy living in late Victorian Britain . |
| 4 | What university-educated person can not recall at least one professor who always wore corduroys ? |
| 5 | And also , of course , the reference to Orpheus , a figure who clearly haunted Milton 's imagination as that of the poet of enormous power but somehow also the natural victim . |
| 6 | William Carey was born on 17 August 1761 in the little Northampton village of Paulerspury , the eldest son of Elizabeth and Edmund Carey , a poor weaver who later became village schoolmaster and parish clerk . |
| 7 | If ever a man and a club seemed , in theory , to be ill-suited , then it is Winterbottom and Harlequins , the club who once caused Dick Best to say when confronted by a bout of absenteeism of Saturday : ‘ All perfectly valid excuses of course ; skiing in Andorra , shopping in Harrods … ‘ |
| 8 | He was that not uncommon thing , a philanthropist who always made money . |
| 9 | The boy who deliberately confused English and German to create a language all to himself , the girl who pulled off her toenails , the boy who refused to speak for days on end , the girl who hid all her possessions and swore that others had stolen them - all these and many more were classed as difficult but just about manageable . |
| 10 | Buzaglo is the Gibraltar World Cup cricketer who effectively handed Brian Talbot his P45 by cracking three goals in Woking 's shock 4-2 win at West Brom nearly two years ago . |
| 11 | Yes , she was also the only woman since Freddie and the Dreamers had a hit who still drank port and lemon . |
| 12 | One lady who only saw Terris once would not work in the station again and demanded a move to a ‘ normal station ’ . |
| 13 | Nevertheless she found herself giving the details of her history to a woman over the telephone who fortunately spoke English , along , she was told , with five other languages . |
| 14 | He is a judge — and , as it turns out , not just any judge , but the judge who once sentenced Miss Madrigal to death . |
| 15 | A recent assessment of Beccaria has portrayed him as a cautious conservative who successfully redirected enlightenment thinking away from a potentially much more radical path : ‘ His sudden fame can be attributed to the relief of educated society that it was possible to hold rational ‘ enlightened ’ views on human behaviour without having to accept radical materialism' ( Jenkins , 1984 , p. 113 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One of them was certainly Kenneth Baker , glossy , sleek and cheerful ; behind him plodded his detective , a literate and unhappy member of the Special Branch who much preferred Brighton rock to Brighton beach , especially at such a late hour . |
| 18 | The millionaire stockbroker and financier , who was to live in Mayfair for 63 years , was the first husband of a beautiful debutante who later became Margaret Duchess of Argyll . |
| 19 | Only rarely did its opponents win a victory like that of George Norris , the progressive Republican Senator who successfully opposed government plans to sell off dams and nitrogen-processing plants at Muscle Shoals in the Tennessee Valley . |
| 20 | Tonight she and Hugo were dining with an important senator who generally included show business personalities among his guests and she had not yet decided what to wear . |
| 21 | At the Grand , magistrates are two a penny , bankers of the sort who never lent Maxwell a farthing can be seen sipping sherry , chairmen of publicly quoted companies compare salaries , and retired officers of field rank renew old NATO friendships . |
| 22 | They also loathe his associations with Yassar Arafat , leader of the PLO , and with Mr Louis Farrakhan , the radical American Muslim leader who once called Judaism a ‘ gutter religion ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For all his communal effort , he was a strong family man , head of a ‘ truly aristocratic home , ’ according to Albert Cohen , no relation , but the Hebrew teacher who privately taught Lyon 's children on Rosemount Avenue . |
| 25 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 26 | In effect , if it was a profession it was a profession in name only ( a point made indirectly by my lecturer who studiously avoided use of the word ) . |
| 27 | 2 Johnny Dawes was the young British climber who recently took part in an expedition to Bhagirathi. 3 vauDe use Sympatex in the manufacture of the majority of their outdoor clothing . |
| 28 | You 'd have to add interest , of course , but even so he would take his hat off to a man 80 billion in the red who never stopped spending . |
| 29 | The policeman who finally trapped Lee said : ‘ He was a real rat . |
| 30 | It was like a scene from Miami Vice , ’ says fed-up Mark who finally quit L.A. after a punch-up at a Beverly Hills party . |