Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was here that Mr Adsett , one of Eva 's " shining people " , taught his class of talented youngsters , several of whom passed the scholarship exam . |
| 2 | Such cheating may take the form of coaching or practice , but it may also take the subtle form of the chemistry teacher who asked the GCE student , ‘ are you sure that is what you want ? ’ when she was asking for some particular potion to complete an experiment in a practical examination , or the American teacher on the same 1987 visit who pointed to a particular answer in a workbook and asked the student to ‘ check that out ’ . |
| 3 | The serial , about an English couple who quit the rat race to live the good and simple life in sunny France , is expected to be one of the highlights of BBC1 's £80 million schedule for the winter months . |
| 4 | One victim is a city housewife who revealed the PIN number of her husband 's account . |
| 5 | The man who produced The Wedding Present . |
| 6 | He collected the scurrilous gossip and the half-truths about Modi , much of it from Beatrice , and sent it to be collated by Douglas Goldring ( Charles Douglas was his pseudonym ) , who produced the book Artist Quarter , the first extensive biography in English of Modigliani . |
| 7 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
| 8 | Neil Kinnock , the former Labour leader , tabled a motion expressing lack of confidence in David Montgomery , the former editor of Today , who became the Mirror Group Newspapers ' chief executive in October . |
| 9 | Yet only twenty years later the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield was the focus of the attention of around twenty million viewers as Steve Davis was defeated on the final ball of the final frame by Dennis Taylor , who became the world champion in what The Times ( won over to ‘ popular culture ’ under its antipodean ownership ) declared to be a ‘ heart-stopping ’ match . |
| 10 | TROMBONIST Don Lang , who led the backing band on the 1950s BBC rock ‘ n roll show Six-Five Special , has died of cancer in London . |
| 11 | In the afternoon it was the same two Spaniards who led the home team to a whitewash over the visitors . |
| 12 | Maureen Randall , who led the protest group Combwich Residents Environmental Concern with her husband John , said at the end of the inquiry that she had started off with ‘ no particular views on nuclear power ’ . |
| 13 | Det Supt Ken Woodward , who led the murder investigation , said outside court : ‘ We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this inquiry unless anything new comes up . |
| 14 | Andreas Tzakis , who led the transplant team , said : ‘ She is recovering quite well from the surgery . |
| 15 | It was George Brown , the vigorous allrounder , who led the rearguard action with a hard-hitting 172 , helped in a goodish partnership with the amateur , W.R. Shirley . |
| 16 | Gogarth has also seen action from Meyers , who braved the wall right of Hunger to provide Extinction E7/8 6b — an obviously scary number . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the influential head priest of the Jama Masjid in New Delhi , Imam Abdullah Bukhari , yesterday charged Mr Gandhi with being in league with Hindu militants who laid the foundation stone of a temple next to a mosque in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday . |
| 18 | Chartered accountants who passed the IoT examination would be entitled to join the Faculty , or the IoT , or both . |
| 19 | David R Jones , of Essex , who equalled the course record held by Jose Maria Olazabal with a 64 , was third on 278 , with Scotland 's Colin Montgomerie sharing 11th place with Olazabal to add 5,340 points to his Ryder Cup standing . |
| 20 | They were the bejewelled and silken-turbaned villains who coloured the pirate archetype of our Western imaginations , wielding their blades and their sea-skills like demons , and bequeathing us their name for our night-mares . |
| 21 | It was Mrs MacDonald who owned the post office . |
| 22 | An independent manager would have been fighting on behalf of his artist for just such a concession ; but for a manager who owned the record company , that meant arguing against himself . |
| 23 | The two girls who shared the upstairs flat were models , and often travelled abroad on assignments . |
| 24 | He said Shooter , who admitted the blackmail plot at an earlier hearing , was an author of several works of fiction . |
| 25 | Mr Jones had been visited by four ex-members of the seamen 's union who read the Mirror article . |
| 26 | Application to vary the order itself is made to the circuit judge or to the district judge according to who made the possession order . |
| 27 | The pair , who made the return journey last weekend in 27 hours travelling across France by freight train , say their biggest fear was that they might run out of petrol . |
| 28 | Kenneth Wedon , chairman of the Policy and Resources Committee , who proposed the standstill budget , said the council had produced a value-for-money budget . |
| 29 | Although the majority of people who visited the Exhibition Room on Survey days appeared to be well satisfied with what they saw , it is very clear ( a ) that people who visit the Library 's Exhibition Room are largely ‘ middle class ’ , and ( b ) that comparatively few visitors come from other parts of Scotland . |
| 30 | Elizabeth 's distraught fiance Cuan , who visited the murder scene on Wednesday , told police the money was missing , together with two tyre pumps . |