Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was survived by his wife Anne , daughter and heir of Richard Comport , of Eltham , and a son Comport ( born 1676 ) , who succeeded him in the baronetcy . |
| 2 | Behrend who entertained us in the Officers ' Mess for an evening meal and breakfast . |
| 3 | He did not look at the woman who passed him in the hallway . |
| 4 | Had the two friends discussed her in the way men probably did when they looked at a young woman who passed them in the street ? |
| 5 | Hodai told Rostov that the major-domo who met them in the antechamber of the palace was a N'pani , the only foreigner with any authority at the court . |
| 6 | As he walked down the stairs it was the old lady who met him in the hall . |
| 7 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 8 | The metal was originally exploited by the Indians of Colombia and Ecuador who recovered it in the form of grains and occasional nuggets from gold-bearing alluvial deposits of rivers draining into the Pacific . |
| 9 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
| 10 | These pairs are alphabetically listed and linked to the name of any author who used them in the title of the article that he wrote . |
| 11 | A few lay on the ground in exhausted or inebriated sleep , oblivious to children and dogs who clambered over them , or to the kicks from porters who found them in the way . |
| 12 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 13 | This little harbour near St Austell is named after Charles Rashleigh , who built it in the late eighteenth century to a design by John Smeaton . |
| 14 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 15 | I used to smile at the people who stopped me in the street , not knowing what they wanted at first , until I discovered that there were actually beggars in London . |
| 16 | It was poor Jacob who caught it in the neck . |
| 17 | Wilson 's principal domestic fault was his kindness in bestowing benefits on friends , and indeed on anyone who approached him in the appropriate fashion , and certainly through Marcia Williams . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the Australian is still likely to preside over the punishment of the opponent who beat him in the World Open final . |
| 19 | Afterwards , Bowe dismissed Lewis , who beat him in the 1988 Olympic final , as ‘ a big , ugly bum ’ . |
| 20 | However , if Europeans were exasperated with Carter , many had little liking either for the man who beat him in the November presidential elections . |
| 21 | Corsie 's semi-final opponent tomorrow will be Gary Smith who beat him in the final of the UK Championship five years ago . |
| 22 | Corsie 's semi-final opponent tomorrow will be Gary Smith who beat him in the final of the UK Championship five years ago . |
| 23 | Director Andrew V McLaglen , who directed him in The Way West in 1967 and who is no easy pushover for any temperamental actor , told me : |
| 24 | The kinds of people who were aware of public opinion polls in the closing stages of the campaign were very different from the kinds of people who followed them in the mid-term . |
| 25 | As for the Crown of Sorcery , it was recovered and taken back to Altdorf by the Grand Theogonist of Sigmar who placed it in the deepest vault of the Temple to be guarded for eternity by powerful spells and iron locks . |
| 26 | Of course he had to meet Bruneau , who sometimes came to our house , and through Bruneau he met Dolmetsch , who interested him in the recorder . |
| 27 | The other motivation for European Union came from the newly-freed countries of Central Europe themselves , who favoured it in the knowledge that only a strong Community , closely knit in a European Union , would have the resources and united will to assist them towards eventual EC membership . |
| 28 | And besides , do n't forget , it was she who dumped you in the end . |
| 29 | With him was Andrew Peck , a partner at Sherwin Oliver solicitors , one of Hampshire 's leading commercial law firms , who assisted him in the deal . |
| 30 | One who knew him in the Bandung period , Takdir Alisjahbana , recalls : ‘ A fascinating personality … few [ were ] able to resist his charm . |