Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Although some speakers urged everyone who agreed with some proposition to show their hand , at no time was a vote taken : the chairman summed up the sense of the meeting after each item , announcing what he thought Kufra 's delegates were mandated to say at the National Assembly . |
2 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
3 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
4 | She had been born in India , where her father was stationed with the Air Force , but after her parents separated she was brought up by her mother , who lived with another woman in Northampton . |
5 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |
6 | And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye . |
7 | Bottcher Strawalde is an artist who lived for several decades in the shadow of the Berlin Wall ( the film was discovered or rediscovered by Parisians a month ago at the Jeu de Paume ) . |
8 | The late Miss Pepper , who lived for some years at The Bield , spoke of the ‘ throwing up ’ of fleeces during clipping to a helper on the gallery . |
9 | The story of Hereward was later popularised by the novelist Charles Kingsley ( 1819–1875 ) , who lived for some years at Barnack Rectory , about four miles to the south-east of Stamford . |
10 | The teller is Jack Page who lived at All Saints , Halesworth in Suffolk : |
11 | Another risk is that when information is filed under address a consumer may be refused credit not because of his own record but because the record of some other person who lived at that address . |
12 | At Key Stage 2 , with older pupils , the enquiry can easily be pushed back to the Victorian Age , when pupils are now faced with the " problem " that all the people who lived at that time are now dead . |
13 | How the quite respectable people who lived under these conditions managed to bring up families , I shall never know . |
14 | Anybody who lived through that time in Oswaldston will have a lot of memories of it-some of them bitter , some of them funny . |
15 | However , it 's impossible for anyone who lived through those times to settle down to cosy domesticity , the world without adventure that Marius Goring offers Shearer . |
16 | Most of us who lived through those times will , I believe , never forget the impact made by their unique hair styles and the famous jackets with no collars . |
17 | The death threats had been provoked by Motoshima 's suggestion in December 1988 that Emperor Hirohito ( who was at the time dying of cancer ) bore some responsibility , " as do all of us who lived in that period " , for Japan 's role in the Pacific War of 1941-45 . |
18 | The Council 's rehoused everyone who lived in that street . ’ |
19 | The dust burned ; as did any populace who lived in that plate , supposing they had survived the plunge of their factory-homes . |
20 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
21 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
22 | who lived in these house plus I should think about |
23 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
24 | The yeomen , husbandmen and craftsmen who lived in these tenements had mostly just a single fireplace in their timber-framed houses at the time of the hearth tax return of 1672 . |
25 | As you tuck into your corn flakes , with all those added vitamins , spare a thought for those who lived before such luxuries were dreamed of . |
26 | ‘ It was the High King Erin who ruled in those days , ’ he said . |
27 | I thank those who fought for that gift and who built the lasting institutions of NATO and the European Community from the ruins of 1945 . |
28 | to distrain by their lands and chattels all those who shared in that liberty , and have lands within the bounds of the disafforested districts , to contribute towards the payment of the 200 marks to the King , in proportion to the lands they had in the said district , and the advantage they gained from the disafforestment . |
29 | For this time there were others who shared in that dream , at least to the extent of wanting friendship between England and Scotland . |
30 | Superior qualifications were , indeed , by no means a guarantee of preferment , on the testimony of David Scott himself , who admitted on another occasion that ‘ there was some altercation about the superior qualifications of the other candidates , but on my shewing the chairman the anxiety I had to provide for your friend , with his assistance I carried it ’ . |