Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd . |
| 2 | The brothers , who fought out the finish of the Elite Hurdle at Cheltenham 's Sunday fixture , are heading for another showdown in the Bula Hurdle over the same course and distance . |
| 3 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 4 | When they were all settled , the President of the Court , the four colonels who made up the tribunal and the Judge Advocate General appeared , followed at last by the prisoner . |
| 5 | In that same year Welford Beaton argued that it was people like clerks who made up the bulk of the great movie audience and that they went to the cinema for inspiration . |
| 6 | The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion . |
| 7 | Their directors , despairing of raising any money from the cooks and porters and pet dogs who made up the bulk of their subscribers , quietly ceased to badger . |
| 8 | Some of the working- and lower-middle-class people who made up the bulk of the urban populace had relatives in the villages , but transport to and from the countryside was erratic and there was always the danger that food-parcels sent in from the villages would be intercepted and confiscated . |
| 9 | The inhabitants of Tali-fu are mostly Min Chia , a population with a distinctive language of their own , and to Hsu 's personal dismay he was treated as a stranger : " though regarded sympathetically , I was always an outsider , despite the fact that as far as physical appearance is concerned I seemed no different from those who made up the community " . |
| 10 | His methods had an appeal among the wealthy , professional classes who made up the congregation . |
| 11 | We know some details of the backgrounds of the twenty-two or so party members who made up the Politburo . |
| 12 | McAllister , happily unaware of who made up the party , watched these inhabitants of the world in which she had lived since she was eight years old stare and chatter as they made their way through the doorway , Mr Sands bowing and scraping at them as befitted a poor relation to whom they were doing a favour , the rest of the bazaar 's patrons staring at these strange beings , male and female , as though they were visitors from another planet , perhaps one described by Mr H. G. Wells . |
| 13 | It was also he who scribbled down the title ‘ Deeply Dippy ’ one evening when he heard the phrase used in a Fry and Laurie exchange on Jeeves And Wooster . |
| 14 | There was Emil Brunner one of the two leading Christian thinkers on the Continent of Europe ; there was Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the two leading Christian thinkers from the United States ; there was Visser t'Hooft , the Dutchman who built up the World Council of Churches ; there was J. H. Oldham , at that moment the leading thinker about Christian society in the British Isles ; and there was Bernard Manning , the Congregationalist historian who was a friend of the Ramsey family in Cambridge . |
| 15 | Some stories say the scribe who drew up the document for the Queen Regent was a Madeiran and that he deliberately forgot to include Madeira . |
| 16 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 17 | Mr Smith , who drew up the report into purchasing powers , said the moves did not mean the end of existing district health authorities . |
| 18 | If Campese misses the Wales Test at Cardiff Arms Park on November 22 , he may find consolation in the ad men who drew up the match posters being left with more egg on their faces than those who dreamed up George Bush 's ‘ four more years ’ slogan . |
| 19 | I think there was somebody called who came down the isle and gave a couple of balloons . |
| 20 | THE '70s brought gender-bending from both men and women , first in glam rock — the androgynous Bolan and Bowie , brickies in make-up Slade and Sweet , leather-clad angel Suzi Quatro , and then disco — the struttingly sexual Labelle and Nona Hendryx , and androgynes Amanda Lear and Grace Jones who played out the role of dominatrix . |
| 21 | The story which most reminds me of animism ( if anything does ) is that of the angel who stirred up the pool of Bethesda ( John 5:1–15 ) . |
| 22 | There was a sort of host who dished out the sherry and took each new arrival round the groups ; though as there were quite a lot of us he could n't remember all our names so we were forced to say them . |
| 23 | It was they , not we , who threw down the challenge . |
| 24 | ‘ In the days before there was much legislation on public health matters , public nuisance was the only offence for which it was possible to prosecute those who stank out the neighbourhood with fumes from glassworks , tanneries and smelters , or who kept pigs in the streets , or kept explosives in dangerous places … |
| 25 | In the Cornish mines the tutworkers who opened up the ground usually worked eight-hour shifts , with three shifts over twenty-four hours known by the mid eighteenth century . |
| 26 | Along with otter , beaver and muskrat , it was relentlessly pursued by trappers , who opened up the continent to all the other stages of civilisation . |
| 27 | It brought her four children who opened up the world for her and unlocked her own narrow viewpoint — though not enough , as events were to show . |
| 28 | In fact , it was rumoured that one of the Mill Hill guys had had his brain messed around with by the visitor who screwed up the landing in the Hebrides . |
| 29 | Who screwed up the father |
| 30 | Those full-time farmers who handed over the holding to a family member at the age of 65 years were entitled to a larger state pension . |