Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve of the Leicester side who lost to Quins are back on duty , led by the doughty John Wells . |
| 2 | Liam Brady 's choice of more or less the side who lost to Falkirk in the Scottish Cup the previous weekend — Rudi Vata was replaced by Brian O'Neil — was not so much a vote of confidence as a challenge to those players to prove they could not be so bad again . |
| 3 | It was occupied by the Fry family — the eldest son was Sergeant Major of St. Martin 's Church Lads Brigade who used to camp out in bell tents at Shady Bower during the summer months . |
| 4 | The creature , although ugly , was intelligent but when he was rejected by his creator and by the people he helps ; he became an outsider who turned to violence and sought revenge on his creator . |
| 5 | In December 1987 Kim Philby , the Russian agent who defected to Russia in 1963 , agreed to be interviewed by the journalist and author Phillip Knightley at his flat in Moscow . |
| 6 | It is like the Buddhist priest who went to nirvana and when he returned , the world had changed into nirvana . |
| 7 | Fr Moon Gyn Hyon , a Roman Catholic priest who travelled to North Korea to escort Lim home , was sentenced to eight years . |
| 8 | This was a dame who bled to death in a dirty room in a flophouse on the wrong side of town . |
| 9 | ‘ No , there 's this beautiful Leningrad actress who went to Rome for several months . |
| 10 | The first — from 1952 to 1957 — was so undistinguished that it was difficult for filmgoers to believe that she was the same actress who returned to movies after five years on Broadway . |
| 11 | BOGOTA ( Agencies ) — A leading member of the Medellin cocaine cartel who resorted to plastic surgery to avoid arrest has been captured and will face extradition to the United States , the Colombian authorities said yesterday . |
| 12 | The traditional style of Roman portrait was revived at the court of the emperor Vespasian ( AD 69–79 ) , a man of modest Italian origin who rose to power through command of an army following a year of civil war . |
| 13 | Well , they did during the Underground strikes , and I honestly did know a young brat-race type who went to work in the West End on a unicycle . |
| 14 | This man , this religious leader , this pharisee who came to Jesus by night and as he comes to Jesus he , is full of questions , but Jesus does n't let him get too many of them out because the questions that Nicodemus has to ask are not the real issues . |
| 15 | According to the records , after de Montfort 's defeat , the Deveril line died out so the woman was probably the offspring of some illegitimate issue who fled to Gascony where she was raised to hate Edward of England . ’ |
| 16 | The only confirmed death so far is a 16-year-old boy who burned to death after he knocked over a candle . |
| 17 | Her father was a schoolmaster who went to Lyon for a year as part of his training course and came back with Mme Wyatt in tow . |
| 18 | All from Exeter , where they settled after the war , the three are Joe Wasniowski , who was a flight mechanic with 317 ( Wilenski ) Hurricane and Spitfire Squadron ; Ted Wijaszko , a radar techician with 307 ( Lwowski ) night fighter Squadron , which flew Defiants , Beaufighters and Mosquitos ; and Stan Kadzielski , a naval gunner who came to Britain as a crew member of the destroyer Burza . |
| 19 | She smiled , her old dazzling smile , of Sylvie the performer who spoke to men 's hearts as well as their groins . |
| 20 | ‘ Right now we 've got a lady who went to school with the Assistant Commissioner 's wife . |
| 21 | The little old lady who went to Salvation Army , always wearing a little hat . |
| 22 | A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates . |
| 23 | We can return for a moment to talk to the girl who went to Italy , and was overwhelmed by Michelangelo 's Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 24 | When stories appear along the lines that in another life you were a peasant girl who starved to death during Ireland 's potato famine you know you 've arrived . |
| 25 | The meeting resulted in the formation of a 12-member " preparatory committee " of business people and church leaders , plus three members each from the government , Inkatha and the ANC , receiving encouragement from Archbishops Desmond Tutu and Trevor Huddleston , the veteran anti-apartheid campaigner who returned to South Africa on June 23 after 35 years . |
| 26 | From the mid tenth century we hear — at first very occasionally , then rather more often — of great nobles from the west who went to Jerusalem , not to die , but to live a great act of penance . |
| 27 | The band ( all sons of Gabby Pahinui , the late folk hero and master of Hawaiian slack-key guitar who contributed to Cooder 's ‘ Chicken Skin Music ’ back in 1975 ) have put together a collection of traditional songs interspersed with some surprising covers , including Lennon 's Jealous Guy and Steve Earle 's My Old Friend The Blues . |
| 28 | Bede 's account of them — the unexpected defeat of Eadwine , the emergence of apostate kings , the ravages of Cadwallon , and the recovery of the northern Angles under Oswald , a Christian who prayed to God on the eve of the battle of ‘ Heavenfield ’ — constitutes one of the most dramatic and best-known parts of the Ecclesiastical History . |
| 29 | Boston-born Bobby who shot to fame after escaping a life of petty crime , has already been the victim of one gangland shooting . |
| 30 | Futre 's mood was no better after a £5million transfer from Atletico Madrid to Benfica , though he was recalled to the team who lost to Italy . |