Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , however , many newcomers who intend to stay permanently in the village and who are attracted , at least in part , by the very prospect of living in a ‘ real community ’ . |
| 2 | Advertisements classified to put in newspaper/magazine for sale/wanted who dares to stay overnight in the Haunted House ? cards in shop window " Lost — one dragon ! " display advertisements/posters . |
| 3 | BUSINESSMEN who want to get ahead in the 1990s should move into the soft drinks , fruit and vegetables or household insurance markets , according to a report published today . |
| 4 | If ever there was a perfect Queen Anne house , here it is , and perhaps a reason for its extra glow is its delicate restoration by the Mildmay family who came to live here in the 1870s . |
| 5 | Was there a lot of people who came to work here in the fishing town . |
| 6 | I had a couple of books which I had slipped into my light case — Somerset Maugham 's novel The Moon and Sixpence , which I was looking forward to reading again because it was , of course , based on the life of the painter Gauguin , who 'd lived here in the South Seas ; and a collection of Guy de Maupassant stories , in English . |
| 7 | So he gathered around him a group who began to pray regularly in the name of Isa Masih , Jesus the Messiah . |
| 8 | A Women 's Royal Voluntary Service organiser for more than 38 years , Eileen says : ‘ Honours should be given to people who decide to work voluntarily in the public interest . |
| 9 | Miles of Gloucester , who had remained quietly in the background since Isabel had entered the room , now moved forward . |
| 10 | Only these two , both mares , from a field of 34 , went clear in the first round and then Raymakers , who had scored earlier in the day on Rinnetou , had to go first against the clock . |
| 11 | With glasses replenished we sat in the CHAB studio where we were soon joined by His Worship the Mayor and a number of other leading citizens who had stayed behind in the hotel to hear the broadcast . |
| 12 | As they walked through the lamplight of the Ropewalk , Maxim noticed a small incised plaque to Lord Macaulay , who had lived there in the 1840s . |
| 13 | It turns out , from Flaubert 's travel notes , that the business-card was n't pinned in place by Monsieur Frotteur himself ; it was put there by the lithe and thoughtful Maxime du Camp , who had scampered ahead in the purple night and laid out this little mousetrap for his friend 's sensibility . |
| 14 | ‘ And if I wanted to promote someone , I would choose the person who had worked well in the community . ’ |
| 15 | There were minor disturbances in the Amman governorate on Aug. 18 during by-elections for the House of Representatives , called to replace two deputies who had died earlier in the year . |
| 16 | President Frederick Chiluba faced a growing crisis when two Cabinet ministers who had resigned earlier in the month took part in launching on July 25 of a new party , the Caucus for National Unity ( CNU ) . |
| 17 | The new young secretary of the BFASS , Louis Chamerovzow , described the aristocratic group as one whose antislavery feelings ‘ had not simply been re-awakened but in many instances actually created by Mrs. Stowe 's work ’ , distancing such newcomers from those who had laboured long in the cause . |
| 18 | The number of qualified experts who have emerged recently in the field has devalued his influence in the market . |
| 19 | ‘ Slow down your eating ’ is excellent classic advice for those with a weight problem — and many of those who have struggled long in the battle of the bulge have probably read it before , and even tried to follow it . |
| 20 | The unicameral National Assembly , each of whose 90 directly elected members has an alternate representative , is elected for a six-year term by a system of proportional representation ; it also contains those unelected candidates who have received nationally in the presidential and vice-presidential elections votes equivalent at least to the average of the winning percentages in the National Assembly elections in each regional electoral district , currently bringing the total number of representatives to 92 . |
| 21 | This cautionary tale does not seem to have deterred the punters , who have bought copiously in the vintages 1985 ( charming , forward wines ) , 1986 ( a classic vintage for the Cabernet Sauvignon grape , and thus for wines like Latour and Mouton-Rothschild ) and 1988 ( sometimes combining the charm of 1985 with the concentration of 1986 ) . |
| 22 | Regular customers who have paid promptly in the past often justify a special letter enquiring as to their reasons & or non-payment of the current invoice . |
| 23 | That only leaves the one at the far end , which belongs to a couple who plan to retire here in the spring . |