Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
| 2 | ( Paul Du Noyer 21/1/84 — who made it a joint Single Of The Week along with Cyndi Lauper 's ‘ Girls Just Want To Have Fun ’ and Echo And The Bunnymen 's ‘ The Killing Moon ’ ) |
| 3 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 4 | Are you , are telling are you telling me that you 'd vote for somebody in rags on the television who promised you a better future ? |
| 5 | Eventually , it was David who found him a good ship and carefully guided him through the process . |
| 6 | After Charlotte 's death in 1783 , the great love of Hickey 's life was Jemdanee , one of his Indian mistresses , who bore him a short-lived son . |
| 7 | Cambo 's most illustrious resident , attracted there by its salubrity , was the playwright Edmond Rostand , a florid Marseillaise who built himself an extraordinary house just outside the town to the north . |
| 8 | ‘ You know , Holly , there was a man here once who told me an extraordinary thing about women … ’ |
| 9 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 10 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 11 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
| 12 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
| 13 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 14 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |
| 15 | The budget had been the topic of fierce argument , but in the end it was passed by a huge majority , satisfying the Prime Minister , who proclaimed himself a happy man after having threatened to resign if he did not get his way . |
| 16 | The officer who handed us the unofficial communique was risking his neck by taking a public stance against racism amongst his colleagues . |
| 17 | He deliberately shared the limelight with Tom Mboya of Kenya who showed himself a brilliant chairman . |
| 18 | who showed him the true path : |
| 19 | What I would like to do now is to reintroduce Phill who addressed us a little bit earlier this morning who 's going to tell us a little bit more about enterprise client server solutions . |
| 20 | The head of the family when I first remember them was William Henry Bayles who was Grandmother 's cousin and the father of a lady who taught me a little bit of music . |
| 21 | They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things . |
| 22 | At seventeen he joined a travelling band of gypsies who taught him the finer skills of pickpocketing until an accident to his hand six years later put paid to what would have been a very lucrative career . |
| 23 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 24 | She regarded them as " mentors " who taught her a great deal about management , and international leadership . |
| 25 | The American government has just brought out two new reports providing fresh evidence about the life and death of the man who called himself the sinful Messiah . |
| 26 | Cumulatively , however , the aura of association with the US was of immense political benefit to those who called themselves a provisional government but who were still skating on the thin surface of political respectability and had by no means attained a state of acknowledged legitimacy . |
| 27 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
| 28 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 29 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 30 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |