Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , is it the intention of the people who asked us to take this action that we should just boycott Nestles products , or we should do the whole range of the conglomerate that owns all these people like Rowntrees and Cross and Blackwell , and many other companies as well . |
| 2 | Mithra was later adopted by the Romans , who designated him to oversee all legal affairs and transactions . |
| 3 | Thus , in Dorchester Finance Company Ltd v Stebbing , two non-executive directors were held to have been negligent in equipping an executive director with signed blank cheques who used them to make unrecoverable loans . |
| 4 | It surfaced last year during the trial of Frank Beck , former head of a Leicestershire children 's home , who used it to abuse young people in his care both sexually and physically . |
| 5 | Diomedes ' mares differed from mortal horses in that they would feed only on human flesh , a trait encouraged by their master who ordered them to eat any stranger who trespassed in his kingdom . |
| 6 | Finally , David Wilson confirmed that he would be prepared to offer advice to any member of CE Staff who contacted him to address any specific issues . |
| 7 | It seemed unlikely that the undertaker had troubled sufficiently about those who survived him to take such precautions , but no one could speak with confidence of what had passed through the mind of this man whose deepest preoccupations seemed to be represented by a few scored lines in a medical book and a little bundle of poems . |
| 8 | She allowed some of those who employed her to know that , by subtle hints and occasional , seemingly involuntary revealings . |
| 9 | It was her second husband , David , who died 16 years ago , who persuaded her to adopt orphaned elephants to see if they could be nursed through their grief and restored to health . |
| 10 | Andrew Buccleuth certainly had his fair share of brokers and analysts doing exactly that , but he had a more relaxed view of the duties of a salesman — and especially of one who enabled him to win substantial bets on the golf courses of southern England . |
| 11 | Your mother presumably , who forced you to do that , was happier than you were about it happening , and that 's what made you sad . |
| 12 | She was the one who wanted me to take early retirement . |