Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His most enduring memory , which haunted his imagination for much of the inter-war period , was of his time as a nineteen-year-old officer in 1918 when he led an action to capture enemy trenches at Epehy . |
| 2 | On other occasions , both before and shortly after that visit , you made work which revealed your enthusiasm for other American interests : its space programme , its fashion , Detroit , Kennedy and Hollywood . |
| 3 | Mr Punch wishes to assure you that he has had many a good belly laugh from the magazine which bore his name for so many years . |
| 4 | But the old religion had elements which prepared its adherents for the symbolism of the new : the death and resurrection of Osiris , the representations of the mother goddess Isis with her son Horus on her lap , the symbol of life in the form of a cross , the Egyptian ankh . |
| 5 | But his explanation for the lie that cost him his job failed to convince an industrial tribunal which rejected his claim for unfair dismissal . |
| 6 | The station which renewed its licence for only £2,000 a year made bumper sales to the ITV network with Taggart and Wheel of Fortune . |
| 7 | Designer Daniel Andrieu was present as the concealing-sheet was whipped away amid a swirling cloud of smoke which hid his creation for a few choking seconds before we could see what had been achieved . |
| 8 | The company , which opened its doors for business a month ago , was spun-out to market the two year old BNR technology developed for the telecommunications market . |
| 9 | It was his next appointment in March 1904 , to the embassy in Constantinople , which fired his enthusiasm for the Middle East and settled the subsequent course of his brief but eventful life . |
| 10 | His choice was blocked by the pro-government Unionist newspaper which paid his fine for him . |
| 11 | Throughout the book he referred to it as the monster or used another word which expressed his hatred for it . |
| 12 | In 1870 he published Alpine Flowers for English Gardens and The Wild Garden , two books which began his campaign for hardy plants in mixed borders and more natural settings , in contrast to tender plants in the geometrical bedding then popular . |
| 13 | CONTRACT catering giant Compass — which aborted its bid for Gardner Merchant — has pushed pre-tax profits from £32m to Pounds 34.9m for the year to September . |
| 14 | When my Report was submitted to Mr Kenneth Baker , Secretary of State for Education and Science , he so much disliked it that he insisted that it should be printed back to front , starting with chapters 15 to 17 , which included our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study , and relegating the explanatory chapters 1 to 14 , which he thought unnecessary , to a kind of appendix . |
| 15 | And the secular armies which established her hegemony for her on the Continent were in no position to undertake a full-scale military campaign against Ireland . |
| 16 | She gave Changez a considerable backhander across his wobbling chops , which shut his mouth for a fortnight , during which he miserably carried his bruised jaw to his camp-bed — that raft in a storm — and did n't speak . |
| 17 | She is a keen skier and wears a jacket with skiers on the back which gave her inspiration for her design . |
| 18 | Last month he emerged from a meeting in the northern city of Olomouc with support for his ‘ Olomouc theses ’ , which outlined his ideas for the Forum in advance of its conference , due to open on January 12th . |
| 19 | He received lengthy obituaries in the British press , which remembered his support for English artists such as Burra , Spencer , Moore , Bacon , Pasmore , Freud and Paolozzi . |
| 20 | It can be taken for granted precisely because of the kind of literature with which lay people were already familiar and the liturgical practices which stimulated their desire for further instruction and participation in the practice of the faith . |
| 21 | Fortunately , the recent freeing of the UN from its ideological rancour , which crippled its effectiveness for so long , has now largely ended . |
| 22 | From 1839 he worked as a naval instructor in Bombay , which left him time for his main interest , the study of science . |
| 23 | The commission of inquiry into the political system reported at the beginning of December to a special KANU meeting , which endorsed its recommendations for a continuation of the one-party system [ see p. 37908 ] . |
| 24 | Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years , it was n't an extensive search for a new musical direction . |
| 25 | We shall perhaps never know what sparked his enthusiasm for collecting , but is certainly to be thanked for saving the many carriages , vans and carts which would otherwise have been broken up or left to rot . |
| 26 | I guess your exterminatus decision was really what clinched my respect for your ability to think on a grand scale , Jaq . |