Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We may be out of the running but we can still have a big say in who goes through to the United States , ’ said Hughes . |
| 2 | And judges Sir John Harvey-Jones and foot writer Jocelyn Dimbleby with presenter Loyd Grossman have to choose the winner who goes through to the final ‘ cook-off ’ in July . |
| 3 | But something about him had fastened itself to her memory , and she found herself saying to a bartender the night after , ‘ Do you know a boy , about fifteen or sixteen , a legit , who goes around with a large black dog ? ’ |
| 4 | The winners of the best gross trophy then decide , either by mutual agreement or by a play-off , on the player who goes on to the national championships . |
| 5 | The lesson of the Square One Principle is this : the person who has the courage to go back when necessary is the one who goes on in the end . |
| 6 | Lord Haw-Haw , the British traitor who goes here by the name of Froelich , but whose real name is William Joyce and whose voice millions of English listen to on the radio every night , and his English wife were at the party , but I avoided them . ’ |
| 7 | The wife and mother who goes out of the home to earn a wage , to escape being totally dependent on a man , being isolated in the home , and the penny-pinching that trying to make one wage feed the family involves , takes a second job . |
| 8 | Who goes out during the day and who stays in ? |
| 9 | Who goes up and who goes down in the rugby union leagues has still to be sorted out too … |
| 10 | Apted 's definitions do not seem to take into account the student who goes directly to the shelves and looks for a book for an essay topic . |
| 11 | He 's gone part of the way along the r road by doing what you 've just been describing non-executive directors but erm it could be a weakness if he 's seen as a er erm a business man and cavalier as opposed to somebody who fits in with the style that the city 's always looking for . |
| 12 | In fig. 122 Herakles stands three-quartered , offering the birds ' bodies ( lost ; we know the subject from Pausanias ) to Athena , who sits up on a rock on which her left hand rests , legs three-quartered away from Herakles , but she turns back towards him . |
| 13 | A friend of mine was driving on the M1 when he came up behind everybody 's un-favourite motorist , the one who sits resolutely in the middle land and refuses to move left , no matter how empty the inside lane . |
| 14 | The smoothy who drives around in a cab . |
| 15 | Agassi is , like Becker one of those players who plays straight from the heart , and unless he sorts out what stops him taking winning opportunities — on an emotional as well as technical level — he may never fulfil his incredible potential . |
| 16 | Rather does he base his recommendations ( which , in general , are in line with the basic directives of Christianity and Judaism ) on the fact ( as he believes it to be ) that a man who thinks adequately on the matter will see them as pointing out the means to his own deepest heart 's desire of personally fulfilled living . |
| 17 | The Leeds Permanent Building Society , for example , pays £5 to one of three charities for each customer who signs up for a Leeds Visa affinity card . |
| 18 | Yes , erm , the , the most archetypal one is , is the miser of course , who , who turns up with a stale box of chocolates and an ingratiating smile , and proceeds to eat you out of house and home , and then when you 're at the supermarket , disappears mysteriously at the checkout , and returns when you 've paid with a , a bumper bag a crisps that he keeps in his bedroom when , in case he gets peckish at night . |
| 19 | Someone who turns up at an occasion which is known to be an ordeal for him communicates information whether he wishes to or not . |
| 20 | God help the feller who turns up at the factory to work in silk knickers under his overalls , but at Christmas , of course , on a stage , of course , it 's all perfectly all right . |
| 21 | The railway will be operating as normal and anyone who turns up on the day can join in the fun . |
| 22 | The most forceful arguments for the period being one of economic growth are those put forward by Bridbury , who points rightly to the phenomenal increases paid by certain towns in taxation between 1334 and 1524 . |
| 23 | At the same time , he is a shrewd observer who writes compellingly about the people and the landscapes he encounters . |
| 24 | John White , who writes both as a psychiatrist and as a father , comments in Parents in Pain , ‘ I do not know what destiny whether small or great God plans for the children who most concern you . |
| 25 | Often the best that one engineer can do is , in any case , exceeded by the best that another engineer can do , especially another who lives later in the history of technology . |
| 26 | In the far distant future , Hummingbird is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy , on a planet called ‘ Just like Home ’ . |
| 27 | There 's a young woman of 17 who lives just down the road from me and has taken to calling on me of late . |
| 28 | This young lady , Mr Bodenland , is the product of the union of two of the great minds of our time , the philosopher , William Godwin , and Mary Wollstonecraft , one of the great philosopical female minds to rank with my friend , Madame de Stael — who lives just across the lake , as you may know . |
| 29 | The millionaire boss of The Hanson Trust , who lives downstream from the lake , claimed it ruined the flow of the river through his land . |
| 30 | The most welcome caller is not the one who rings up with a carefully arranged bouquet of words delivered ‘ at the double ’ ; it is the one who calls to enquire , to listen , and to sympathise when necessary , leaving the elderly person feeling warmed and cared for . |