Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would go to see Joseph Fouché personally , and explain the position to him : that he had uncovered a massive international conspiracy of Jews who planned to take over the whole of Europe . |
| 2 | As governor of the island of Española , Colon ordered the hands to be struck off any native who failed to render up a quarterly tribute of gold or 25 pounds of spun cotton . |
| 3 | He also tried his hand as a film director , though less successfully , and wrote a play about a German who sought to take out a patent for gas ovens , which was staged to scant acclaim at the Arts Theatre in 1965 . |
| 4 | ‘ A hero who sought to live out a mythological quest to find himself . |
| 5 | Those members of the catholic population who sought to advance up the class structure had to adjust to more marginal roles among the professional classes . |
| 6 | I has taken me a while to figure out that ‘ we ai n't got Windows , we got DOS ’ so I would appreciate any advice in your columns on the basics — what sorts of programs are suitable for a simple soul like me who needs to knock out the odd poster , magazine or newsletter and something that will look more professional , from time to time . |
| 7 | Todd first boxes Scotland 's Stephen Wilson , 20 , who has moved up a weight since winning silver at the 1989 world juniors and an ABA title in 1990 . |
| 8 | The Damned ( 1961 , These are the Damned in US ) compares the violence of contemporary youth to the behaviour of a scientist who has locked up a group of children for experiments . |
| 9 | Lynda Ramsden 's gelding , who has run up a sequence of four successes over hurdles this jumps season , should be suited by today 's extra two furlongs and meets third-placed Needwood Poppy on 6lb better terms . |
| 10 | Norwich were trailing Grant , who has turned down a new contract , last season and have maintained their interest . |
| 11 | The multiple rapist , who has turned down the chance to serve his sentence in the safety of a solitary cell , was attacked at Highdown Prison , near Sutton , Surrey , according to a report on Thames Television . |
| 12 | Robinson , who has turned down the offer of a two-year contract by Yorkshire , had been classified by the TCCB as a List I cricketer . |
| 13 | Trainer Gordon Richards , who has sent out the veteran staying chaser to win seven times at the Lancashire track , last night confirmed him a definite starter . |
| 14 | Among the winners : a society of Japanese housewives which distributes environmentally sound products ; an Ethiopian agronomist who has built up a seed bank of plants for use in time of drought , and Survival International , which campaigns for the rights of tribal peoples . |
| 15 | The experience is made doubly uncomfortable because the man facing them is Dr Giovanni Agnelli , the founder 's grandson , director for 49 years , chairman for 26 , and the man who has built up an enterprise with a turnover of £26bn and 300,000 employees . |
| 16 | Our choice would be a former IBMer who has carved out a successful career running another computer company — Comdisco Inc chief Ken Pontikes is already facing up to the same problems besetting IBM , and despite his protestations , there 's always Ross Perot . |
| 17 | Anyone who has driven down the Dover Road to catch a ferry might agree . |
| 18 | I should like to hear from anyone who has set up a coldwater marine tank in this area . |
| 19 | Sergei Nazarev , who has set up a business-information consultancy in Yekaterinburg , fears that foreign investment is no guarantee of success . |
| 20 | Kalinowski is equally accommodating with Prince Adam Czartoryski , who has set up a foundation to restore to glory the castle of Goluchow . |
| 21 | A GROUP of travelling people who has set up a temporary encampment near the Co Down village of Ardglass have called on the local council to provide a permanent site . |
| 22 | Mr Litman , who has set up an office in Moscow , is unperturbed by his rivals ' plans and promises that his ageing ex-spies will provide ‘ astounding new material that will shatter myths and create new controversies . ’ |
| 23 | That person is frequently the President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors who has set up an efficient administrative machinery for such appointments . |
| 24 | The essential appeal in ‘ Sliver ’ is the voyeurism of apartment building owner Zeke Hawkins ( William Baldwin ) who has set up an elaborate video system to monitor what his tenants get up to behind closed doors . |
| 25 | Rainbow , who has pulled off the road for a closer look at her broken window , can almost smell the bloodlust underneath the righteous wrath . |
| 26 | Bacon had little interest in English neo-romanticism and Minton would have been unable to accept Bacon 's nihilism , his insistence that man is a futile being who has to play out the game dependent not on reason but chance . |
| 27 | They will be able to challenge the charges of a solicitor executor who has carried out the administration of the estate , by applying for a Remuneration Certificate from the Law Society . |
| 28 | So says the American umpire , Dana Leconto , who has tried out the new Palm Unit , a hand-held microprocessor which logs all shots , reminds players of court and ball changes , keeps time and does everything but make line calls . |
| 29 | In true spy fashion , there is also a mysterious third man , Brian Litman , a Hollywood-based producer and agent who has signed up the Foreign Intelligence Veterans Association , a fraternal association in Moscow of 500 old spies made up of retirees from the former Soviet secret service . |
| 30 | And that has been determined by our marketing executive who has signed up the estate agent . |