Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appeal to labour solidarity wo n't wash either when most of the labour force is non-unionized , many of whom earn only a pittance in the secondary labour market . |
| 2 | Who lived here a merchant or somebody ? |
| 3 | This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ . |
| 4 | One outgoing player is striker Derek Parker , who made only a couple of appearances after coming from Hyde United . |
| 5 | His presence gives Joan some respite and complements the assistance she receives from the doctor who visits once a week and a nurse who comes in the morning and at night to put James to bed . |
| 6 | There is an occupational therapist who visits once a week and a physiotherapist who gives music and movement sessions . ’ |
| 7 | The pressure came from John McFall , a Labour home affairs spokesman , who put forward an amendment to the Carrying of Knives etc ( Scotland ) Bill calling for the planned six-month jail sentence or fine of up to £1,000 to be increased to two years or an unlimited fine . |
| 8 | Johnston was important as a systematic thinker who put together a package of ideas on the links between Marxist and republican politics . |
| 9 | But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’ |
| 10 | An invasion by Uganda-based rebels , launched on the night of Sept. 30-Oct. 1 , threatened the 17-year regime of President Juvenal Habyarimana , who cut short a visit to North America on hearing that his country was under attack . |
| 11 | Blackmore , 28 , who played only a cameo role in United 's Premier League triumph last season , looks like ending his Old Trafford career . |
| 12 | You are a very different man from the frightened little scribe who arrived here a year ago . ’ |
| 13 | Two weeks in a semi-finished house , with a man who does n't give a damn about appearances have worked their magic , and I do n't know if I 'm Cinderella now or the pumpkin , but I 'm certainly not the obnoxious girl who arrived here a fortnight ago . |
| 14 | At present the Board consists of 28 Directors who meet once a year . |
| 15 | I have thirty or forty people who meet once a month for |
| 16 | Alison Cathie says , ‘ They will appeal to everyone : for people who know quite a lot about gardening they will be a rich source of ideas ; for people just starting out they give information like how to plant in a container . ’ |
| 17 | When Greig went for 116 , Snow supported Knott , who spent over an hour in the nineties before reaching the same score as his captain , and when the tail went quickly the total was 387 . |
| 18 | A MENTALLY handicapped man who spent almost a month in Barlinnie Prison because there was nowhere else for him to go is to be transferred to the Royal National Hospital in Larbert today . |
| 19 | I would find it extremely difficult to forgive somebody who killed deliberately a member of my family . |
| 20 | Can this be the Arthur Wellesley who set aside a sum of money to educate two of the slain Tipu Sahib 's sons , whose letters of gratitude I still have ? |
| 21 | The match proceeded at a pace not much sharper than a cast of world veterans had produced earlier — including United 's own Bobby Charlton , who popped home a goal to show his heirs how to do it . |
| 22 | Of the 80 guests in Bitez , about 30 are dinghy sailors who arrive once a fortnight for a two week holiday . |
| 23 | Also standing is Green Mike Woodin who grabbed almost a quarter of the vote in last year 's council elections . |
| 24 | Of the various attempts that have been made to apply Althusser 's principles , by far the most wholehearted and discerning is the work of Nicos Poulantzas , who offered both an account of the state in capitalist societies and an analysis of what he saw as one of its exceptional forms fascism . |
| 25 | If it is assumed that the age structure of the inward flow and the outward flow is similar and that those who leave continue to reproduce at the same rate as those of a similar age who stay then an estimate of the number of births to women who leave can be made ( table ) . |
| 26 | He left the shop only to find another barrow boy , who looked about a year younger than himself , was already selling chestnuts from his pitch . |
| 27 | These have been bequeathed by Mrs Justin Thannhauser , who died exactly a year ago . |
| 28 | Sadly , this ceremony was destined to be the last visit to School by Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller , who died suddenly a fortnight later whilst on a cruise to the West Indies . |
| 29 | While Charlie quickly mastered the art of mapreading it was Tommy who took only a day to find his way round a rifle . |
| 30 | ‘ He has maintained his innocence throughout and has been fully vindicated by a jury who took only an hour and a half to find him not guilty . |