Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points . |
| 2 | I was saved by Fritz , who came galloping round the castle to find me . |
| 3 | James Hadley , writing his will in 1532 , remembered the church as one of Somerset 's ‘ holy places ’ , and by the late eighteenth century it had become the frequent destination of topographical writers who came searching for the romantically sublime . |
| 4 | He turned his lens on a man who came striding through the concourse , his collar turned up , his hat pulled well down . |
| 5 | It can also revive memories of childhood tantrums and distress , locking oneself in the lavatory or bathroom and shutting out the adults who came battering at the door . |
| 6 | It was no coincidence that the majority of the French delegates were members of the little-known Le Societe Pereire , which sought to recognise Pereire as the first teacher of the deaf in that country — Pereire being a man who practised teaching by the oral method . |
| 7 | TODDLER Natalie Godfrey , who hated sleeping in the dark , was killed yesterday when a candle set fire to her bedroom . |
| 8 | Profiled recently in this magazine , Madame Yevonde was a highly influential but sadly unsung pioneer of colour photography who began experimenting with the new Vivex colour print process in the early thirties and was soon producing work of startling and refreshing originality . |
| 9 | Frances Swiney , who began writing in the 1880s , published a large number of books and pamphlets on female sexuality . |
| 10 | So how does the girl who began hitting on a Swingball set in her back garden , see this move ? |
| 11 | He had been a friend of the Emperor since the two had first met in Rome in 1829 , a time when Malmesbury found him ‘ a wild harum-scarum youth apparently without a serious thought of any kind ’ , who enjoyed galloping through the streets at full tilt on a fine thoroughbred . |
| 12 | He had with him his daughter and her husband , Lord and Lady Brabourne , their fourteen-year-old twin sons , Nicholas and Timothy Knatchbull , Lord Brabourne 's elderly mother , and Paul Maxwell , a local lad who enjoyed helping with the boat . |
| 13 | A professional cavalier , who enjoyed excelling at the game of soldiering , who gave his orders with the perfect authority of a corps whose drills have been tempered by a score of successful wars , a hundred victories , a million unsung deaths . |
| 14 | Karen , who started skating at the age of six , has received grants from the borough council 's Community Chest . |
| 15 | CHRISTMAS bread supplies will be at risk if bakery workers , who started voting on a pay offer yesterday , reject the deal . |
| 16 | I know it sounds crackers but we preferred it , " said one of the pit brow lasses who started working at the pit when she was fourteen and finished when the women 's work was abolished after nationalisation . |
| 17 | The man who actually had the lease or paid the rent anyway on this flat was a man who worked sorting for the Post Office . |
| 18 | I had a horse who loved going on the beach and in the sea at Weston-Super-Mare but hated puddles and tiny streams . |
| 19 | Without close-ups and action replays , I 'm afraid it seemed an awfully slow game and I started counting the number of people in the crowd wearing red , and longing for the little athletic wagtail who kept hopping onto the electronic line bleeper to hop back again . |
| 20 | The dealer got more and more paranoid sitting there , noticing these two guys in the corner who kept looking at a bit of paper then at him , then having a bit of a conflab . |
| 21 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 22 | She was thus entitled to be as forthright as she wished about the travellers , who kept camping in the council yard and various public spaces and were cordially loathed by the local residents , whether they admitted it or not . |
| 23 | Concluding the entry on Knock , the Curate next confided to his diary the tale of Father Vianney , a priest persecuted by the devil , who kept banging on the walls and throwing furniture around . |
| 24 | The matey use of Blanche 's name struck a false note with Dexter , like interviewees he had seen on chat shows who kept tossing in the name of the host every thirty seconds to make it appear they were bosom pals . |
| 25 | Hearing off : A disciplinary hearing involving a senior education officer who went missing during the summer was cancelled at the last minute yesterday . |
| 26 | Two sailors who went missing from the destroyer H-M-S Gloucester off the Isle of Man have been arrested in Lancashire . |
| 27 | Reflected in the half opened eyes of the man who lay dying on the thick rug of his apartment . |
| 28 | He strode towards Luke , who lay moaning on the ground . |
| 29 | Who sang Walking In The Air in the film The Snowman ? |
| 30 | Only child Adele wrote after reading about a local teenager who died waiting for a swap op . |