Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which I think there were four competitors , one of whom got through to the district final and eventually to the national final that John is going to on Saturday . |
| 2 | It was not a well-attended affair — perhaps fifteen people , mainly old women , at the church , few of whom came on to the cemetery . |
| 3 | As Douglas and Ramsay stationed their people about one hundred yards out from the gateway , peering to see if the drawbridge was indeed down , they were startled by two figures who materialised out of the gloom from behind a low wall of the forecourt — and were almost leapt upon there and then . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Who goes out during the day and who stays in ? |
| 7 | Who goes up and who goes down in the rugby union leagues has still to be sorted out too … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The present interior dates from 1852 when it was used by Emperor Ferdinand the Gracious , the last king of Bohemia who abdicated in 1848 in favour of his nephew but who lived on in the castle until his death , in 1875 . |
| 11 | The post would only be used for people who lived out of the dale . |
| 12 | Beyond that , we 've got to assume that the main source for instruments was the same as for everybody else who lived out of the range of urban merchandising , and that 's catalogues : Montgomery Ward , Sears & Roebuck and places like that . |
| 13 | The smoothy who drives around in a cab . |
| 14 | Five wickets toppled for 65 in the lunch-to-tea period , the first three to a fiery Malcolm , who steamed in from the Nursery end and seemed to think he was Waqar . |
| 15 | One day when he had sold a painting for a hundred francs , he spent it all on buying flowers for every woman who passed by in the street in a gesture that Modi much admired . |
| 16 | ‘ the Kipling who limped out of the wreckage , shrunken and wry though he looks , has in a sense had his development as an artist ’ — Edmund Wilson : The Wound & the Bow |
| 17 | Michael Hughes , who met up with the rest of the party here in Frankfurt last night , is likely to be given a more forward role supporting Dowie . |
| 18 | Granted , my steatopygous chum is not of an age with the aforementioned silver-haired Lothario who rode off into the sunset with a nifty piece of under-age crumpet strapped to his roofrack , i.e. Gill 's Dad . |
| 19 | Niven Jr was tied up by two gunmen , who made off with the haul belonging to Elizabeth Adams . |
| 20 | One of his two sixes off left-arm spinner henry went out of the ground , and play was held up while police vainly chased a thief who made off with the ball . |
| 21 | Someone who turns up at an occasion which is known to be an ordeal for him communicates information whether he wishes to or not . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The railway will be operating as normal and anyone who turns up on the day can join in the fun . |
| 24 | We will continue to pay , from April 1993 , a rebate at the level recommended by the Government Actuary for all those who contract out of the State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme . |
| 25 | Further changes introduced by the 1986 Social Security Act were intended to increase the numbers who contract out of the SERP scheme . |
| 26 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 27 | Who was he , this man who knew her name , who got up from a collision that should have killed him outright , and still managed to outrun a healthy man ? |
| 28 | Perhaps he was in cahoots with the one who got in through a skylark ? |
| 29 | After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor . |
| 30 | However , the accused who sneaks out of a cinema which he has sneaked in to is not guilty : no service has been " done " . |