Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A journey in a camper shades into a lift with a driver who turns out to be a narcotics agent ; the former episode is then repeated , with sado-masochistic variations , until that too shades into a bus journey . |
| 2 | If a person assaults another who turns out to be a policeman , he can he convicted of assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty even though he had no knowledge that the other was a policeman , or even the means of such knowledge . |
| 3 | Then he quite literally bumps into someone who turns out to be a very good friend indeed . |
| 4 | You might try it on with a girl in the park who turns out to be a policewoman in disguise . |
| 5 | But their home habits are violently interrupted by a male intruder , who turns out to be no more than a secret admirer of one of the sisters , writer ‘ Viola Ge ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ High time someone started asking a few awkward questions , ’ says his neighbour , who turns out to be an expert in Moral Law . |
| 7 | Why does blood seep from her son ? ’ runs the grisly ballad that tells the true story of a woman in 18th century Ireland , sentenced to death for the murder of a young gentleman who turns out to be the long-lost product of her liaison with the English gentry . |
| 8 | The plane he so nearly did n't catch crashes , and he is forced into befriending a vaguely familiar-looking German who turns out to be the brother of an old friend … |
| 9 | In murder mysteries , it is always the least suspicious person who turns out to be the killer . |