Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 At least forty-eight loyalists were arrested , two of whom turned out to be full-time members of the Ulster Defence Regiment .
2 I smiled in answer to this , and started talking in French to a small , balding man who turned out to be Swiss and who was on the run from the customs in Geneva .
3 After a cafeteria lunch that day with Jack Radford , Don Wilson and Jack Peach , I met the senior producer , James R. Finlay , who turned out to be friendly and helpful .
4 The silver-haired gentleman , who turned out to be fluent in English and very charming in a gracious sort of way , chatted to her amiably about the south of France , though Alyssia did n't miss the way his eyes wandered unconsciously across to his wife every so often .
5 who turned out to be able to read quite a lot .
6 The manifestations of Boltwood 's psychic powers started at the age of five when he talked to invisible people who turned out to be dead friends of his mother .
7 Nor did he say that he thought it was unlikely , on the whole , that the Bishop would sack a perfectly competent administrator who happened not to be smarmy enough to some thruster from the Scottish lowlands .
8 The Mr Bean and Blackadder star said : ‘ Comedy 's not funny people , it 's people who chose when to be funny — for gain . ’
9 Only the ‘ other neurotic ’ group were indistinguishable as children from those who grew up to be well ; if anything , their home lives were slightly more adequate than those of the comparison group .
10 And people who set out to be faithful do fall passionately in lust with other people .
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