Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So too would the much-hyped and for once apparently sober hardcore outfit LMS , who failed to deliver on the promise of an anarchic stage act . |
| 2 | What he said was very significant — that the ANC wanted to encourage any film-maker , black or white , who tried to put on the screen images of black people that were recognisably human , and who also tried to give employment and encouragement to black technicians . |
| 3 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 4 | Is he aware that anyone placed in that predicament today , and who decided to go on the dole so as to look after his sick parents , would not receive a single penny piece ? |
| 5 | Pickerage had a mother somewhere or other , who liked to descend on the school at inopportune moments , always driving a different car , the property of her current escort ( she was the sort of woman who , even in this day and age , had escorts ) , and embarrassing Pickerage by the demonstrable falsity of her pretended affection . |
| 6 | Mugabe 's proposals in August to introduce a one-party state were successfully opposed by the majority of the ZANU-PF politburo , who preferred to capitalize on the party 's de facto domination of political life rather than formalize it constitutionally [ see p. 37643 ] . |
| 7 | Percy Gibbs , now 90 years old , was one of those who volunteered to serve on the committee — and he has done so every since . |