Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from his engravings , for which he became particularly well known , he was an excellent portrait painter and his painting of four children — one of whom became the fifth Duke of Devonshire — in the grounds of Chiswick House , probably attracted him to Chiswick , an area considered by many notable persons at that time , as very healthy . |
| 2 | Attached to many early Christian communities were groups of ascetics , both men and women , some of whom demonstrated the supernatural character of their chastity by the sexes cohabiting , yet without sexual contact . |
| 3 | The election of October 1951 had brought 100 new Conservative MPs into parliament all of whom received the undivided attention of the lobbyists . |
| 4 | The present study was therefore designed to recruit a large number of patients , all of whom received the same treatment , allowing unequivocal refutation of the prospectively defined hypotheses that a heavy physical workload and a high prior recurrence rate are associated with a decreased healing rate . |
| 5 | David Fairhall adds : The regular Panamanian forces , not all of whom opposed the American intervention according to the Pentagon , were vastly outnumbered by US troops . |
| 6 | The reshuffle came under almost immediate fire from former president Francesco Cossiga , who branded the new administration as a government of national hypocrisy . |
| 7 | He handed a small scroll across to Corbett , who checked the purple wax seal of the King before breaking it and unrolling the vellum . |
| 8 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 9 | Tigrett , who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation , falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould : he is even married to Maureen , former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison 's Natural Law Party . |
| 10 | I have something here that might help you find the man who attacked the poor girl . |
| 11 | For it was those two , with a little help from Nick Brown , Frew McMillan and John Black , who entertained the boisterous crowd with an exhibition set officially won by Brown and Keegan , 7–5 ! |
| 12 | Just before he was due to pack his case , tidy the papers on his desk for the last time , and go home , Spittals was surprised to receive a call from the commander of the Squad , who asked the chief superintendent to call in before he went home . |
| 13 | The Co Down reader who asked the simple question is a mature driver with a modest car . |
| 14 | Selborne repeated this view to Churchill [ KP 3 ] , who asked the Foreign Secretary for his comments [ KP 5 ] . |
| 15 | His article sparked the interest of two Newsnight journalists , Gavin Esler and Martin Gregory , who asked the Foreign Office to give them a briefing . |
| 16 | It was Hilary Robarts who asked the obvious question , sounding as accusatory as a peevish wife . |
| 17 | THE NatWest bank last night offered a £25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of two men who kidnapped the elderly mother of one of its managers . |
| 18 | It was not , however , Sir Tony Jacklin who produced the halved match , and the retained Ryder Cup , at The Belfry this year , although two of his players were Sandy Lyle MBE and Nick Faldo MBE . |
| 19 | Early PC-based software was both expensive and fairly awful ; Studio Software , who produced the first desktop publishing program for the PC recently went to the wall as a direct result of being unable to keep up with the new leaders . |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't go out of your way to make a series , ’ said Peter Rogers , who produced the entire batch . |
| 21 | Furthermore , they had experienced the development and then degeneration of one major unifying royal line , the Merovings , and replaced this finally with a most vigorous governing family , the Arnulfings , who produced the great emperor Charlemagne . |
| 22 | A manual describing the art was written in Holland in 1674 , and at that time it was the Dutch who produced the best work . |
| 23 | Beth Duffin who produced the winning play won the Belfast News Letter Cup for best director and Carole Stewart who played Helene Hanff won the UTV Hubert Wilmot award for best actress . |
| 24 | As the Club Conference Committee was struggling to express this wider vision in an initial Statement of Aims , it was Philip in 1964 who produced the winning title that we all now take for granted — Frontier Youth Trust . |
| 25 | Critics compare him to Jeremy Thomas , who produced The Last Emperor but whose name takes a back seat to Bertolucci 's . |
| 26 | Along with Googol in his affectedly fluted black silk on-board suit , these three seemed to be a trio of tall-standing predatory bats who eclipsed the false star-void of the walls , wherever they stood , like dense hungry shadows eating the fire-flies of the night . |
| 27 | When Robert Slater returned he accepted this idea with enthusiasm , and it was he who planned the new hostel and took a very active hand in raising the modest sum necessary for the building . |
| 28 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 29 | David 's celebrations were shared by Donna Dale , of Kesgrave , who became the female Face of '93 . |
| 30 | Amongst those members who changed their portfolios was former Economics Minister Chen Li-an , who became the new Defence Minister . |