Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] the [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 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 3 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 8 | The officer who handed us the unofficial communique was risking his neck by taking a public stance against racism amongst his colleagues . |
| 9 | who showed him the true path : |
| 10 | They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 13 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 14 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 15 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
| 16 | We contacted Dr. Ford , who sent us the following reply : |
| 17 | And it was she who brought me the first evening paper . |
| 18 | The people who brought us the old-school Arkwright football shirts are now bringing us Subbuteo merchandise complete with the classic Subbuteo falcon logo . |
| 19 | Made by the Japanese firm of Saga ( the same people who brought us the Lowden-esque Trameleuc acoustics , plus reissues of Maccaferri gypsy jazz guitars and Regal wooden-bodied resophonics ) these new acoustics sell under the name of O.C. Smith and promise an interesting combination of European but strongly American-influenced design , together with Japanese efficiency and affordability . |
| 20 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 21 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 22 | But he could justify this because there were other Scots besides Elder , drawn from the ranks of the leading politicians , who gave him the same message . |
| 23 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |
| 24 | The pope sent cardinals , the senator of Rome and other nobles to escort him to St Peter 's and at the monastery of St Pancras the king was anointed by the cardinal bishop of Porto and crowned by the pope , who gave him the royal insignia . |
| 25 | Evelyn took up the pen and wrote her name quickly , then looked up at Miss Harker who gave her the briefest of nods and immediately turned her attention back to the rest of the company . |
| 26 | Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary . |
| 27 | Hailed as the troubled comic genius who gave us the manic hotel-keeper Basil Fawlty and the Ministry of Silly Walks , he 's also the kingpin of the enduring Pythons and a multi-millionaire businessman . |
| 28 | Unusually for a concerto , it was sold immediately to the publisher Artaria , who issued it the following August . |
| 29 | Thus the fourth-seeded Soutter gained revenge over the player who denied her the last place in England 's world-title winning team this year , with a hint that her rehabilitation might now be complete . |
| 30 | Another greatly pleasurable result of the broadcast was that it put me in touch with colleagues of his , and their wives , in the lighthouse business , several of whom wrote me the kindest letters expressing the most heart-warming comments . |