Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In September 1940 the Tizard Mission , including J. D. Cockcroft , E. G. Bowen and R. H. Fowler , visited the Us and showed the magnetron to the authorities and to the Bell Telephone Company who got it working in a single weekend . |
| 2 | There were some who had been destined for fighters , especially Meteors , who found themselves headed for a dreaded bomber tour . |
| 3 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 4 | It also involved us in playing ‘ When the Saints ’ ( which we 'd resisted up to then ) for the two policemen who caught us parked on a double yellow line . |
| 5 | One interesting aspect was that during the war the lines of debate were largely settled by civil servants ; the effective opposition was not a political party , but the Treasury and other departments who saw themselves threatened by a new , upstart Ministry of Town and Country Planning . |
| 6 | If both prisoners stay mum , the police have a witness who saw them co-operate on a lesser crime , one that would put them both behind bars for two years . |
| 7 | It was n't a courtship at all , according to Eileen 's outraged family , who viewed her meeting with a member of the Protestant gentry with deep suspicion . |
| 8 | It has won favour with both young and old who voted it tops in a poll of 1,051 people . |
| 9 | Our Stella says the lad who butted him comes from a well-to-do family . ’ |
| 10 | But Tolkien 's censure , written from the standpoint of one who had himself hardened in a sentimental devotion to the religion of his boyhood , must not be accepted without qualifications . |
| 11 | This intention was warmly supported by John Whitgift , the Archbishop of Canterbury , who had himself engaged in a spirited controversy with the leading contemporary Puritan theologian Thomas Cartwright . |
| 12 | Return to Husova Street and to the Church of St Giles ( St Jiljí ) , first built in 1339–71 by John of Dražice and Arnošt of Pardubice , who had it built as a hall church . |
| 13 | The slander spread like wildfire and was only checked when the drunk who invented it confessed in a magistrates court . |
| 14 | This so alarmed the Sicilians , who wanted nothing to do with a German prince , that they gave the throne to William 's illegitimate cousin , Tancred of Lecca , an ambitious man famed for his ugliness of both temper and physique . |