Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Berhtfrith praefectus , almost certainly the Berhtfrith who fought on Osred 's side at Bamburgh and who later spoke in favour of a settlement with Wilfrid at the council on the Nidd ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) , perhaps also a kinsman of Berhtred , son of Beornhaeth , was involved in a conflict in 711 in what had been Manau Gododdin between the Rivers Avon and Carron when the Picts were defeated ( HE V , 24 ; ASC D , s.a. 710 ; AU s.a. 710 : AT p. 222 ) . |
| 32 | She was , in fact , Bessie Cohen , who later rose to fame as a music hall soloist . |
| 33 | In their hands love seemed a narrow-eyed , exclusive , selfish bastard , to enjoy itself at the expense of a woman who now lay in bed in Auntie Jean 's house , her life unconsidered . |
| 34 | Hewitt , who even kept in contact with the princess while he was serving in the Gulf , is presently based just a quarter-of-a mile from Kensington Palace . |
| 35 | Tertiary prevention can be illustrated by the work of professionals in the children 's departments in the fifties and sixties , who increasingly intervened in family situations before the point of a child 's admission to care ( Donnison , 1975 ) . |
| 36 | In this respect , recommendations by the team were subject to approval by senior county staff who sometimes had inside information which could affect the final decision . |
| 37 | On the following day , Elinor 's door was thrown open by a nurse who then stood to attention as , smiling benignly , Matron Ivy Braddock appeared in the doorway . |
| 38 | The next morning — or soon , anyway — Spunk was beamed up on to the bridge of the low-lying spaceship by the mischievous , conical , beep-voiced aliens , who then travelled through time and beamed Spunk down again into Greenwich Village , 1980 . |
| 39 | Don Letts — who then worked for Acme Attractions and was until recently part of Big Audio Dynamite — was always in . |
| 40 | By comparison , Britain 's first lady , Norma Major , is a quiet , unassuming woman who almost squirmed with discomfort when her husband became Prime Minister . |
| 41 | The firm is headed by Steven Gluckstern , a financial wizard who previously worked for Salomon Brothers , a Wall Street firm , and Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway investment company . |
| 42 | The Museum was virtually put together by one man , the late Alex Massin , who sadly died of cancer before he could see his museum open to the public . |
| 43 | Mick Keebles , the World Cup captain , heads the off-campus contingent , which also includes John Jenkins , a centre who briefly returned to rugby union with Waterloo on leaving Leeds Polytechnic , but decided it did not quite match the real thing . |
| 44 | Other public bodies who actively campaigned on behalf of the constitutional amendment were the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties . |
| 45 | Walesa argued , however , that such a system would politicize the union , and that it would undermine the rights of the thousands of non-government supporters who currently belonged to Solidarity . |
| 46 | George Khoury and his colleagues , who recently announced in Science that mutations associated with cancer were to be found in the normal cells of a patient — and were thus probably inherited — turn out to have spoken too soon . |
| 47 | David ‘ Syd ’ Lawrence , who recently returned to bowling in the nets after his horrific knee injury in New Zealand , has been awarded a benefit by Gloucestershire in 1993 . |
| 48 | That 's the view of John Broughton , Health Physicist at Torness , who recently returned from part in an OSART inspection of the plant . |
| 49 | Mr Rushdie , who recently declared on television that he was no longer prepared to remain shut away from the world , spent the evening with a few favoured friends . |
| 50 | Here was a player who had clean kit for every match , who actually trained at home and , more importantly , scored goals where it mattered — between the posts . |
| 51 | Again , it is interesting to note that the Japanese , who never succumbed to jade or to any notable degree to gold , are now in their days of increasing wealth choosing platinum for their diamond rings . |
| 52 | Two campaigners , an Englishman and a Frenchman , brushed away tears as they recalled 453 airmen who never returned from World War 2 sorties . |
| 53 | Nearly all these men were poor except Seneca whose attitude was that of a poor man , and Tagore who never thought of money . |
| 54 | But forget 10-digit typing and you 're soon skipping across the keys with the irritating agility of people who never sweated in front of a Pitman 's chart . |
| 55 | Children who never went to school at all would pick up quite a lot of immediately useful knowledge ; from television and radio , moreover , they might acquire quite a lot of not obviously useful , relatively esoteric bits of information , about history , for example , or natural history . |
| 56 | Of course , there were always the others who never went to school , who never declared themselves , but lived out their lives very privately , avoiding the school officer , the rent man , the army , and sometimes even prison . |
| 57 | Billy , the Havildar-Major , was a tiny , wizened man , always smiling and very devout , who never went to sleep without first singing softly to himself all three verses of ‘ Jesus loves me , this I know ’ . |
| 58 | I 've met old men who never went to sea . |
| 59 | An even greater criticism is that the vast sums spent should have been spent elsewhere , especially in missionary efforts among the growing number of Englishmen who never went to church or chapel . |
| 60 | Hugh , who never went to church , adopted a tone of peculiar reverence when faced with the old man whose cassock showed traces of tomato sauce . |