Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1925 the ship was bought by a Glasgow shipowner who planned to convert her to a nautical museum . |
| 2 | " Who has invited you to a dance ? " |
| 3 | ‘ You 're hardly a teenager who has to explain herself to her mother . ’ |
| 4 | Even Dorothea Shottery had the comfort of a home and money left by her husband , even Dorothea who has contributed nothing to life , has a married name and her freedom . |
| 5 | It was me who cut her ropes and killed the men aboard her , and it 's me who has sailed her to a place where you 'll never find her . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a brilliant performance , ’ enthused Toby Mullins , the ladies ' coach who has led them to the championship in his first season in charge . |
| 7 | In the contortion of such reasoning , it is easy to lose sight of who has done what to whom and who in fact is the guilty party . |
| 8 | Here now is an Arab leader who has shown himself to be capable not only of standing up to the mightiest military force in the world , but also of retaliating . |
| 9 | ‘ There is at least one who has adapted himself to circumstance , ’ observed Theda . |
| 10 | This is the favourite place for Romanians who want to make it to the West . |
| 11 | In fact , he was the man who 'd escorted her to the door to mark the end of her first visit . |
| 12 | Dad and Eva would come back late , and I 'd get up to see them and hear , as they undressed , who 'd said what to whom about the latest play , or novel , or sex-scandal . |
| 13 | Everything was peaceful — everything but the man who 'd brought her to this place . |
| 14 | He never understood the fools who paid to frighten themselves to death . |
| 15 | The big machines are only powered by the ratepayers ' money , and that woman who threatened to tie herself to a willow tree represents thousands upon thousands of ratepayers who share her ( and Constable 's ) convictions about the essential nature of a river . |
| 16 | She sat down next to Mike , who started to introduce her to everybody . |
| 17 | erm but there were er a small number of people who managed to make it to good old healthy seventies eighties . |
| 18 | Isaac Asimov was born at Petrovichi , Russia , on Jan 2 1920 , the son of a rabbi who took brought him to America at the age of three . |
| 19 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 20 | I have n't met the type of Magistrate who enjoys sending anybody to prison . |
| 21 | For those like me who fail to make it to the banks of the Styx , there is compensation at Vlykhada to the north , near Areopolis . |
| 22 | So all I 'm arguing is that all such a gene for penis envy would have to do would be to promote the reproductive success of the little girls who 've had it to that gene eventually to become established throughout the entire female population , just as the gene for oedipal behaviour , or phallic behaviour , would become selective in males . |
| 23 | It 's I who 've brought him to this ! |
| 24 | In Lethbridge v. Phillips , L , a celebrated miniature painter , lent a miniature to B who wished to show it to the defendant . |
| 25 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 26 | I was the one who had to take it to my tutor , not them . |
| 27 | Did Obispal 's associates realize that the rashly rampaging Inquisitor was only present in this auditorium courtesy of Jaq 's Assassin who had plucked him to safety ? |
| 28 | He had also telephoned an old friend , who had invited him to a birthday party the following weekend , which he was looking forward to , although with some apprehension . |
| 29 | In that sensible frame of mind she had hurried downstairs to join her daughter — who had beaten her to the breakfast table again ! — and her host in the sunny conservatory . |
| 30 | ‘ You know everyone , ’ said Brian , indicating Constance , who had beaten them to it into the drawing-room . |