Example sentences of "[Wh pn] ran [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The settlement is believed to be the largest compensation payment the BBC has ever made , topping the £75,000 paid in April 1982 to Dr Sydney Gee , who ran a Harley Street slimming clinic . |
| 2 | One unfortunate woman who ran a discount shoe store was oblivious to the fact she was sitting on an old school goldmine . |
| 3 | This was used as a bacon store by Sainsbury 's , grocery wholesalers whose main warehouse was behind The Crystal Fountain in Milford Street and who ran a fleet of chain driven lorries . |
| 4 | Indeed he did broadcast on the BBC before the war with a man called Harry Hopeful who ran a very popular show , rather on the same lines as Wilfrid Pickles and his Have a Go programme . |
| 5 | Miss Harder was a spinster in her early fifties who ran a small tobacconist 's shop in London 's Archway . |
| 6 | Finally , though , they quarrelled with the newsagent — my grandfather — and my mother took in sewing instead , alterations sent by an aunt who ran a dress shop , Rymer 's . |
| 7 | For they were licked into shape in the late 1960s by two ambitious pals who ran a record shop in the Cheshire market town . |
| 8 | A management board was set up that comprised ‘ everybody who ran a little bit of the firm ’ . |
| 9 | The Maggot was an expatriate American who ran a slew of businesses from his Grand Bahama home . |
| 10 | Sidney Biddle Barrows , who ran a call-girl service in the 1980s , said the top-secret file was the only thing stolen from her Manhattan flat . |
| 11 | WAITRESS Vera Nicholls served up teas on a charity stall — and was sacked on the spot by her boss , who ran a cafe opposite . |
| 12 | And underneath the story started : Gallant young Dr Kit Masters , Oxford Boxing Blue , beat off a gang of three Blackshirts when he found them attacking an old man who ran a tailor 's shop . |
| 13 | Battersea group were helped by the neighbouring Lambeth group who ran a stall and the walkers were joined by members from other London groups including Imperial College , Newham and Bayswater . |
| 14 | So , it came as something of a disappointment when a Ms Mel Chevannes , who ran a black supplementary school in the West Midlands , wrote to the Wolverhampton Express and Star to protest at my testing ‘ hypotheses that black people are ‘ happy-go-lucky or very physical in their outlook ’ ’ and that my aims were to ‘ damage even further the life chances of black children ’ ( 25 June 1980 ) . |
| 15 | This was done very effectively in the late seventies in campaigns by Whitbread , who ran a series of ads asking for public comments on a number of propositions about the law affecting pubs and licensing ; and subsequently by the major banks , who ran a joint campaign partly designed to deter the threat of nationalization — a campaign which attracted many thousands of replies from the public . |
| 16 | This was done very effectively in the late seventies in campaigns by Whitbread , who ran a series of ads asking for public comments on a number of propositions about the law affecting pubs and licensing ; and subsequently by the major banks , who ran a joint campaign partly designed to deter the threat of nationalization — a campaign which attracted many thousands of replies from the public . |
| 17 | The students were encouraged by highly respectable people like Mrs Mang Sudewo , wife of a Brigadier-General , who ran a kitchen to feed them . |
| 18 | Anna Wilkes , who ran a rescue home in Poplar , outlined a form of regulation in which purity workers shared responsibility with the police and the courts , preserving the delicate balance between voluntary bodies and state institutions . |
| 19 | They were advised by many friends , including Norman Hadden , Graham Thomas , Lanning Roper and old lady , Nellie Briton , who ran a rock-garden nursery near Tiverton . |
| 20 | One was a very nice garment made out of a kind of silk which Mother and I bought from the secondhand clothes lady who ran a stall in Barnard Castle . |
| 21 | When I first arrived , at the age of twelve , I was advised to try a family in Borgo delle Colonne , a long cobbled street with an arcade along one side , very typical of Parma , where a woman who ran a small dairy business undertook to look after me . |
| 22 | He decided that the only way to avoid spending the rest of his life in the workhouse was to exhibit himself as a freak , and so he offered himself to Sam Torr , who ran a music-hall , the Gaiety Palace of Varieties . |
| 23 | His fine balance in the ring was spotted by his future manager , Samuel Wilson , who ran a sixpence-a-week gymnasium . |
| 24 | At the age of fourteen he was sent as a private pupil to the Revd Alfred North , who ran a small school for dissenters in Oundle , and he spent two years pursuing classical studies there . |
| 25 | Many of the older folk will remember Bobby Whale , who ran a fried fish shop from his house in Kent Road , and old Mrs Poysden whose toffee apples were the best I 've ever tasted . |
| 26 | I phoned Shirley , a friend I 'd made who ran a travel agency , and asked her to book me on the mid-day Concorde . |
| 27 | She began to exchange odd words with the others , the Afghan 's owner , tall and bearded in home-knitted sweaters full of mistakes , the woman who ran a boutique a street away and her argumentative pekinese , and an Alsatian with a middle-aged man in dark suits and expensive shoes who looked like an advertisement for men 's tailoring , the kind who would be bound to have the right clothes for any occasion . |
| 28 | Those of us who ran a BCRS stall at the CADMRS exhibition on Easter Eve had a preview of the layouts and modelling techniques to be seen in this department of railway enthusiasm . |
| 29 | Before anyone had a drink , Ken called out his apologies and the guests left , leaving behind just the immediate family and Lou 's sister , Alice , and her husband , who ran a pub in Hornsey . |
| 30 | Jonathan Fox , the eldest , was a highly successful systems analyst in the City , and , though newly married , exerted himself constantly with professional advice for his sisters , who ran a shop in an arcade recently built to blend with the architecture of the Cotswold town of their birth . |