Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 2 WLR 805 at p873 , Lord Donaldson MR stated that at first instance Scott J had come to the conclusion that the duty to maintain confidentiality was not necessarily in all circumstances the same in relation to third parties who became possessed of confidential information as it was in relation to the primary confident . |
| 2 | ‘ Government regulations make it extremely difficult to move it by road , ’ said Allister Anderson , of Nuclear Services at Peel Park , who became involved at this stage . |
| 3 | There were many others , not mathematicians or academic linguists , whose function I did not know ( and not all of whom I met in what was by then a large organisation ) , who became celebrated in later life . |
| 4 | Consider , for instance , how Rupert Croft-Cooke , out to discredit Gide 's account of Wilde 's seduction of him ( Gide ) into a confirmed homosexuality ( above , Chapter 1 ) , writes of Gide that he ‘ picked up ( among others ) the Algerian boy prostitute Athman , who became known to other visiting Europeans , including Eugène Rouart and Francis Jammes and was brought to Paris by Henri Ghéon ’ . |
| 5 | In July 1839 , Spalding travelled to the village of Tuekakas — who became known as Old Joseph — in the beautiful Wallowa valley . |
| 6 | Surely she accepts that the Government were right to provide compensation for haemophiliacs who became infected through contaminated blood factor 8 . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , those four hundred thousand Palestinians lost everything in Kuwait , and erm it 'll be important to know that for each Palestinian in Kuwait there 's at least two or three other Palestinians whom they support outside Kuwait , in other words in Jordan , West Bank and the Gaza strip , so totally the Palestinians who got devastated by this invasion is about one point two million Palestinians . |
| 8 | The world exploded into popping blue circles as his irises clamped shut and his retinas screamed with the shock , like somebody who 'd dived into Caribbean waters and found them as cold as Arctic slush . |
| 9 | like wingless birds who 'd flown through sheer assumption . |
| 10 | Aircrew who 'd served with one-one-five Squadron bid an emotional farewell to their base at RAF Benson . |
| 11 | I thought about all the young men who 'd climbed into those machines and the death they 'd seen and the death they 'd made and the death they 'd received . |
| 12 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 13 | The I O C's choice of Atlanta , Georgia to host the centennial Olympic Games has not only shocked and disappointed the Athens delegation here in Tokyo , it has brought disappointment to the team from Manchester who 'd worked for several years to fulfil the dream of bringing the Games to the U K for the first time since 1948 . |
| 14 | Eventually , she deduced the kid must have gone to find Nathan , who 'd slept in that morning and missed breakfast . |
| 15 | The same people who 'd listened to those jokes were laughing in earnest now ; were calling him ridiculous . |
| 16 | ‘ She had a go at the weeds perhaps , ’ said Roland , who felt threatened by damp and melancholy . |
| 17 | I was not the only person who felt betrayed by filthy lucre when the World Cup went to the satellite company . |
| 18 | One out of the 18 drug users who seroconverted suffered from oesophageal candidiasis at the time of seroconversion . |
| 19 | In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine . |
| 20 | But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat . |
| 21 | Now , he had become a peacemaker , and he was encouraging a truce between the Bloods and the Crips , who had shot at one another for years . |
| 22 | In 1954 a fish was retrieved from the lower trachea and right bronchus of a 14 year old boy who had presented with acute severe dyspnoea after swallowing a live fish . |
| 23 | Patients were included who had presented aged 40 to 64 years with documented features of dementia . |
| 24 | If nothing else , she enjoyed feeling needed ; but sometimes she dreamed with disturbing vividness about the managing director , who had believed in full-length mirrors , bottles of champagne and the importance of taking one 's time . |
| 25 | The crisis-ridden years of 1961–2 had dampened the optimism of those who had hoped for new initiatives to end the Cold War . |
| 26 | Many of the demonstrators were Nepalese who had crossed into southern Bhutan from India . |
| 27 | At least three Pakistani civilians were killed and 15 others injured late on Feb. 5 when Indian border guards opened fire to repel Pakistani demonstrators who had crossed into Indian-administered territory near Jammu ( the predominantly Hindu winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir ) . |
| 28 | Miloš did not have the support of all the Serbian chiefs , especially those , like Dean Matija Nenadović and Petar Moler , who had crossed into Austrian territory with Karadjordje in 1813 to return later to share in Miloš 's success . |
| 29 | Some Romanians claim ( not unreasonably though without evidence ) that Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were diabolists who had arranged for certain black magical and other superstitious figures to be carved in the decorations of the Casa Republicii or hidden in the overall design and visible only to other satanic initiates of the occult . |
| 30 | The first time I stood up to cross-examine the CEGB 's opening witness , Derek Davis — the man who had said in 1952 that there was ‘ no strong local opposition ’ to Hinkley C — I felt as though I was floundering in a mess of unthought-out quibbles . |