Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so we bring er a special sort of er expertise I suppose to the talks but also the experience of retirement which we think is is really good by someone who has already retired enjoying retirement to be able come to talk to people . |
| 2 | Mr Eagleburger , who has already offered to resign , said he would be taking ‘ corrective actions ’ . |
| 3 | Floyd , who has just finished filming in the Far East and has his autobiography and a cookery book in the pipeline , plus a new TV series , dreams of getting away from it all . |
| 4 | The 1922 Committee of backbench MPs is led by Cranley Onslow , stocky , ginger-haired and looking unaccountably like a surveyor who has just arrived to advise on suspected dry rot in the roof . |
| 5 | If you would like to receive my prayer letter please contact Joyce MacPherson who has kindly agreed to distribute it for me . |
| 6 | In a press statement , visiting Capital House Chief Executive Norman Riddell — who has since left to join Invesco Europe as Chief Executive — and the Manx subsidiary 's Managing Director Bob Straskiewicz said that Capital House was a truly world-wide operation . |
| 7 | That was presented , last July , to yet another secretary , Lord Young , who has since refused to publish it . |
| 8 | Producer for both the new single and October-scheduled album was Craig Leon — he of numerous Fall credits — who has finally managed to capture the beefy FADS live sound on tape . |
| 9 | Deborah feels she is lucky in having a mother who has deliberately tried to encourage a good self-image . |
| 10 | Yet at least England can now hope in the future for better things from the bat of Lewis , who has always looked to have the ability to be a genuine all-rounder at Test level but until this match had scored just 483 runs from 15 Tests at an average of 24 . |
| 11 | The object of this sort of servants ' hall talk is invariably some butler who has come to the fore quite suddenly through having been appointed by a prominent house , and who has perhaps managed to pull off two or three large occasions with some success . |
| 12 | Yet it is in precisely this sort of situation that a woman who has hitherto chosen to stay at home with her children may need to seek work . |
| 13 | This account of how a sturdy and friendly young American wins the heart of the irascible and hostile Earl of Dorincourt , the grandfather who has hitherto refused to see him , acquired a largely undeserved reputation for sentimentality . |
| 14 | Hardy , who has twice failed to win the European title , can feel somewhat fortunate to be matched with the International Boxing Federation champion , Orlando Canizales of Mexico , in Sunderland on January 24 . |
| 15 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |
| 16 | Stephen Fry , who put Labour 's case for higher taxes ( in The Daily Telegraph ) more eloquently than any party politician , and who has now escaped having to pay them . |
| 17 | Mr Ferguson , who has now guided United to three trophies in 5½ years since taking over from Ron Atkinson , thought United missed Robson less than Nottingham Forest missed Stuart Pearce . |
| 18 | Clegg is called The Collector , as he is a butterfly collector , who has now started gathering and trapping women in a similar way , this is a powerful metaphor throughout the book . |
| 19 | The question facing women 's studies today is the extent to which she has , in the last decade , matured into the dutiful daughter of the white patriarchal university — a daughter who threw tantrums and played the tomboy when she was younger , but who has now learned to wear a dress and speak and act almost as nicely as Daddy wants her to . |
| 20 | Someone who has only agreed to buy ( i.e. to whom property has not yet passed ) can not do so , Shaw v. Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis ( 1987 C.A. ) . |
| 21 | No one who has ever contemplated sending a parcel by British Rail 's Red Star — minimum charge £23.50 for same-day delivery between stations , plus a lot more if you want door-to-door service — will be greatly surprised to learn that the operation is allegedly riddled with inefficiency , waste , and misdirection . |
| 22 | Network SouthEast 's marketing director , David Walker , said : ‘ Anyone who has ever tried to use the 1,500-page British Rail timetable will know just how complicated it can be to plan a rail trip . ’ |
| 23 | Anyone who has ever tried chiselling out a channel in a wall to accommodate electrical conduit or other piping will appreciate this useful accessory from Wolfcraft . |
| 24 | This comes as no news to anyone who has ever tried to render into English verse so much as a strophe of Horace . |
| 25 | Another simple definition which will appeal to everyone who has ever tried to slim : More weight loss for less willpower ! |
| 26 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
| 27 | Anyone who has ever tried to grow peaches outdoors will be familiar with ‘ Taphrina deformans ’ , the fungus which causes peach leaf curl disease . |
| 28 | Considerable skill in getting plants established was also required — it is only too easy for gaps to appear , or for an odd man out in flower colour to pop up , as anyone who has ever tried to grow a complete row of vegetables or lay out a bedding plan , will know . |
| 29 | Award winning writer Anthony Minghella who has recently finished directing his first film Truly , Madly , Deeply , will be in conversation with writer and dramatist David Edgar . |
| 30 | He deserts her in Italy some years later , and she finds her way back to London where she is reunited with her uncle , who has never ceased to search for her . |