Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finnan was shouting commands and swords were still flashing at the beasts who fought to clamber on board . |
| 2 | Later in the month teachers who failed to return to work were dismissed . |
| 3 | Those who failed to respond to vaccine ( concentration of antibodies to hepatitis B surface antigen <10 IU/l ; 14% of those vaccinated ) were first tested for antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen , a marker of past or current infection with hepatitis B. As can be seen from the table , most of those investigated ( 99% ) had negative results for antibodies to core antigen and were true non-responders . |
| 4 | Mr Ceausescu had encased himself in such an impeneterable fortress that Gorbachev spared the Romanian leader from the warning he was to deliver later to Erich Honecker , that ageing leaders who failed to reform in time would pay dearly . |
| 5 | This publication contained detailed descriptions of persons who failed to appear at court to answer a criminal charge . |
| 6 | Two or three out of every ten who came to live in south London were north Londoners who had merely crossed the river , but of course they themselves may have been second generation immigrants to the capital . |
| 7 | Well hidden underneath it was , or either the rogues would have found it when they tipped the load , or else the first who came to carry off timber would have seen it . |
| 8 | Then the nice soldiers on leave who came to stay with us-and silly but nice old Narodo , our second bearer , who always forgot to give us plates at meals ? |
| 9 | The authors who began to write about rape and related it to male power , male supremacy and male sexuality , questioned what they saw to be the essentialist constructions of female sexuality which continued to predominate within the age of sexual revolution . |
| 10 | He threw it hard at the Dodger , but missed and hit Charley Bates , who started to shout with fear . |
| 11 | He was also disturbed by the relatively small proportion of graduates who chose to work in manufacturing industry . |
| 12 | So top marks to all the local club drivers who managed to keep on road |
| 13 | Rather , like the bridesmaids who were prepared and who went to celebrate with joy , the Christian must be ready for Jesus to return . |
| 14 | Everyone was pleased to welcome back to Chichester from the USA Sarah Smith , who went to live in North Carolina in 1980 . |
| 15 | For those who liked to go to church there were padres of several denominations and candles and a camp-built altar . |
| 16 | For those people who bothered to get in touch with me . |
| 17 | However , his departure was more like triumph since he took with him some 2000 men who preferred to go into exile with him rather than remain in Alfonso 's service . |
| 18 | By unspoken arrangement , those who preferred to travel in silence were left alone when they had received and returned a nod of acknowledgement from their closest neighbours … |
| 19 | In short , what the figures confirm is that the major achievement of building societies is to take funds from surplus units within the personal sector , to supplement these with lending from other sectors and to lend to personal sector units who wished to go into deficit to buy houses . |
| 20 | The Home Support Project was both an action project ( to provide a service for elderly people with dementia which would help those who wished to remain at home rather than be admitted to an institution ) and a research project ( to evaluate the success of the action project ) . |
| 21 | Accordingly producers or consumers of raw material who wished to hedge against price movements in those raw materials through the futures markets need not be restricted by Rule 5 – 44 . |
| 22 | He did not seem able to deal with anyone who wished to work from understanding , or able to think for himself . |
| 23 | Apologies for those who had to sit on plastic seats . |
| 24 | The three who had to go to school in the morning went to bed . |
| 25 | But she did n't envy people who had to go to school . |
| 26 | This was partly for ease of administration by the development officers who had to take into account the cost of all the services received by the elderly person when designing a package of care , but primarily because this was a new initiative : by enabling the development officers to take on difficult and complex cases without being unduly restricted by considerations of cost , it was hoped to test the limits to this form of community care . |
| 27 | Similar decisions were reached in the cases involving hole in the heart babies who had to wait for treatment because of a shortage of trained specialist nursing staff . |
| 28 | He always pitied people who had to ask for information . |
| 29 | The final round on the Grand Union Canal at Broadmead Bridge was fished by 26 competiors who had to smash through ice up to six inches thick . |
| 30 | This was a blow to the defenders of orthodoxy , who had to stand by while refugee children from Jewish urban areas were shunted off to largely Christian rural areas . |