Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from his engravings , for which he became particularly well known , he was an excellent portrait painter and his painting of four children — one of whom became the fifth Duke of Devonshire — in the grounds of Chiswick House , probably attracted him to Chiswick , an area considered by many notable persons at that time , as very healthy . |
| 2 | Attached to many early Christian communities were groups of ascetics , both men and women , some of whom demonstrated the supernatural character of their chastity by the sexes cohabiting , yet without sexual contact . |
| 3 | The election of October 1951 had brought 100 new Conservative MPs into parliament all of whom received the undivided attention of the lobbyists . |
| 4 | The present study was therefore designed to recruit a large number of patients , all of whom received the same treatment , allowing unequivocal refutation of the prospectively defined hypotheses that a heavy physical workload and a high prior recurrence rate are associated with a decreased healing rate . |
| 5 | Prior to the conclusion of the Bensonhurst trial , in the early hours of May 13 a gang in the predominantly black neighbourhood of Brooklyn assaulted three Vietnamese men , one of whom suffered a fractured skull . |
| 6 | David Fairhall adds : The regular Panamanian forces , not all of whom opposed the American intervention according to the Pentagon , were vastly outnumbered by US troops . |
| 7 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 8 | He will team up with Widnes star John Devereux who agreed a short-term deal with Manly coach Graham Lowe last week . |
| 9 | The reshuffle came under almost immediate fire from former president Francesco Cossiga , who branded the new administration as a government of national hypocrisy . |
| 10 | Although the current five-year term of the People 's Action Party ( PAP ) administration could have run until 1993 [ for 1988 general election see pp. 36352-53 ] , Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong who succeeded the veteran Lee Kuan Yew in November 1990 , wished to secure a popular mandate for his leadership and its changes of policy emphasis [ see p. 37860 ] . |
| 11 | It was built by the Stephensons ( q.v. ) and John Ellis , who succeeded the formidable George Hudson as Chairman of the Midland Railway Company . |
| 12 | He handed a small scroll across to Corbett , who checked the purple wax seal of the King before breaking it and unrolling the vellum . |
| 13 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 14 | Tigrett , who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation , falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould : he is even married to Maureen , former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison 's Natural Law Party . |
| 15 | upset the chairs of those who sold the sacrificial pigeons ; |
| 16 | But 70-year-old Mr Lowes , who unearthed the historic treasures while searching for lost tools on Home Farm , at Hoxne , Suffolk last November , is totally relaxed about the whole thing . |
| 17 | THE councillor who attacked a controversial version of Swan Lake is now considering seeing the performance . |
| 18 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 19 | Detectives hunting the rapist who attacked a young woman at a Nottingham f music festival at the weekend , have been interviewing some of the thousands of people who attended the event . |
| 20 | An artist 's impression of a man who attacked a twelve year old girl has been released by police . |
| 21 | Here detectives in Mansfield are hunting a man who attacked a fifteen year old girl near a hospital . |
| 22 | Detectives in Mansfield are hunting a man who attacked a fifteen year old girl near a hospital . |
| 23 | THREE teenage youths who attacked a lone policewoman were being hunted yesterday . |
| 24 | A court has been told that a teenager who attacked a wheelchair-bound pensioner in his own home was high on the drug Ecstasy . |
| 25 | I have something here that might help you find the man who attacked the poor girl . |
| 26 | Indians and seringueiros alike had become the virtual slaves of the rubber barons and their descendants , who suppresed the indigenous people 's culture and kept the imported labourers in debt bondage . |
| 27 | For it was those two , with a little help from Nick Brown , Frew McMillan and John Black , who entertained the boisterous crowd with an exhibition set officially won by Brown and Keegan , 7–5 ! |
| 28 | A HAIRDRESSER who asked a teenage employee to push her buttocks against a letterbox so he could fondle them through it was ordered to pay her £1,000 for sexual harassment yesterday . |
| 29 | Just before he was due to pack his case , tidy the papers on his desk for the last time , and go home , Spittals was surprised to receive a call from the commander of the Squad , who asked the chief superintendent to call in before he went home . |
| 30 | The Co Down reader who asked the simple question is a mature driver with a modest car . |