Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Who goes out during the day and who stays in ? |
| 8 | Who goes up and who goes down in the rugby union leagues has still to be sorted out too … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The smoothy who drives around in a cab . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Someone who turns up at an occasion which is known to be an ordeal for him communicates information whether he wishes to or not . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The railway will be operating as normal and anyone who turns up on the day can join in the fun . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , the accused who sneaks out of a cinema which he has sneaked in to is not guilty : no service has been " done " . |
| 19 | Did you hear the one about the rabbi who sneaks out of the synagogue on Shabbos to play a secret game of golf when he should have been praying ? |
| 20 | THE kind of man who lumbers about like an injured bear : the quintessential tough guy — strong , silent and self-con-tained . |
| 21 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 22 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 23 | Amanda Harris plays her as a termagant who steams about like the mad woman in the attic , her face set in a perpetual lockjawed scowl . |
| 24 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 25 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 26 | Now , let's take the young activist , who starts off in the trade union movement . |
| 27 | The basic story is the conflict between two college students : Hector , the basketball star who starts out with no political convictions , and Gabriel , a radical anti-war activist . |
| 28 | The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny . |
| 29 | Junior Bent ( Bristol City , 12.06 ) , Efan Ekoku ( Bournemouth , 12.07 ) , Adrian Littlejohn ( Sheff Utd , 12.08 ) , Iffy Onuora ( Huddersfield 12.09 ) , Keith Curle ( Man City , 12.10 ) , Rod McDonald ( Walsall , 12.18 ) , Tony Witter ( QPR , 12.19 ) and John Goodman ( Millwall , 12.40 ) , and late replacements Vance Warner ( Nottm Forest ) and Michael Brown ( Bolton ) , who stands in for the injured Stuart Storer ( 12.17 ) . |
| 30 | One is a man , Sergio Malandro , physically a cross between a lorry driver and an Italian gigolo , who dresses up as a five year-old in short trousers . |