Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 2 | The prime candidate for the job was General Henri Giraud , a courageous soldier who had opposed the armistice in 1940 and had been imprisoned by the Germans before escaping early in 1942 . |
| 3 | The Gordon Highlanders had already left , the airmen from the corner table had hoisted kitbags to shoulders and gone their separate ways , and the soldier who had spent the entire evening writing letters called a goodnight and walked out into the darkness . |
| 4 | It seems reasonable to ask , though , why a side who had gone the previous 42 games undefeated , were allowed to spend such a relatively undemanding afternoon in the company of a team who ought to have harboured more serious intent than was ever evident . |
| 5 | But they were gifted the points by a Sunderland side who failed to take the chances on offer . |
| 6 | Published by the International Development Research Centre ( IDRC ) in Canada , the papers were prepared by media theoreticians and practitioners from across the African continent who met to discuss the use of media to relay development information . |
| 7 | Ellen and I both assumed that Sweetman 's interest in Wavebreaker had been merely that of a prospective charterer who wanted to reconnoitre the boat 's amenities . |
| 8 | An Arabic-speaking Tunisian-American , Habib was the son of Phillip Habib , a former government agent who had played a big part in breaking up the French Connection in Marseilles during the 1960s . |
| 9 | as if in defiance of the United Nations and to confirm Franco 's confidence in his regime 's rectitude , Cristino García , a former Republican exile who had reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the French resistance movement , was executed in Barcelona on 21 February 1946 . |
| 10 | Much attention focused on the aggressive personality of the virulent Marxist , Arthur Scargill , a Yorkshireman who had succeeded the moderate , Joe Gormley , as president of the NUM in 1982 . |
| 11 | Her father , ‘ a younger … and illegitimate , though much loved , son of the eccentric 2nd Earl of Kilmoray ’ , served in the First Life Guards and was military attaché in Rome from 1895 to 1901 ; her mother was the daughter of ‘ a Dutch nobleman of ancient lineage who had made a fortune out of East Indian tin ’ . |
| 12 | There had been a witness who had raised the alarm . |
| 13 | Saad 's family rushed to try and have their revenge on the witness who had announced the news like someone possessed , and who cared less about Saad 's death than about convincing the whole community of what he had seen in the hut that burning noonday . |
| 14 | 507 , which involved the identification of the driver of a car , counsel submitted that the trial judge should have granted his application to see the statement of the Crown witness who had given the police a description of the driver . |
| 15 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 16 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 17 | I did n't see anything inevitable about an affair with a priest who had taken a vow of celibacy . |
| 18 | There was a conflict between the role and the man , between the priest who wanted to lead a hidden life and the public persona who worked within a regime of absolute power which he faithfully served while understanding the need to revolt against it . |
| 19 | Significantly , his successor was not a football player at all but a journalist who got to know the Arsenal chairman while working as a society correspondent for the New York Herald . |
| 20 | According to the journalist who had written the article , he was equally adept at raiding hearts . |
| 21 | A journalist who had hitched a lift was killed , Fitzroy Maclean ended up in hospital for three months and Randolph Churchill had to be invalided back to England with a back injury . |
| 22 | Roosevelt was an outdoorsman who wanted to preserve the wilderness — but his motivation was to maintain the stock of bear , deer and other animals sought by hunters . |
| 23 | That escort streamed behind him down the street , together with the aide who had fetched the Prince back . |
| 24 | A psychologist who helped organise the German survey said : ‘ The double bed should not be treated as a self-service supermarket for sex . |
| 25 | The harshest comment comes from an illiterate Yorkshire collier who had suffered a bitter , loveless childhood , tormented by a cruel brother . |
| 26 | He very much admired the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott , the Corn Law Rhymer , that is , a poet who helped to lead the opposition to the laws which kept the price of bread artificially high , and said ‘ None of us have done better than he has at his best ’ . |
| 27 | He is only an ordinary Hobbit who came to own the Ring because he was given it and he does not consider himself great enough to do anything with it except destroy it . |
| 28 | They thought him a genuine socialist who had tackled the capitalists — something the SPD had failed to do , and had hopes for a brighter future when the war was won . |
| 29 | In 1971 a military coup brought in General Tren Son Taim ( a Taiwanese refugee who had led a tiny fascist force on the islands during the Second World War ) , and Washington lifted the trade embargo . |
| 30 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |