Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while it was being chopped down the Collector and his men had emptied their guns into the hacking sepoys , and the door had become tightly jammed with the dead , many of whom still had bayonets wedged in their lifeless hands . |
| 2 | Buzaglo is the Gibraltar World Cup cricketer who effectively handed Brian Talbot his P45 by cracking three goals in Woking 's shock 4-2 win at West Brom nearly two years ago . |
| 3 | Despite this , however , he was treated with some suspicion by Parliament , who restricted his ability to raise taxes to pay for army or navy forces , so he turned to Louis XIV of France , who secretly made funds available so as to improve the failing status of the Roman Catholic Church in England , where the Church of England virtually excluded all ‘ dissenters ’ , which included Roman Catholics . |
| 4 | The seventh-century chronicler Fredegar thought that they were given lands by the Gallo-Roman aristocracy , who thereby gained tax exemption in the days of Valentinian I. It may be that this information actually relates to the reign of Valentinian III , and therefore that it is the same as the grant of Sapaudia , but this is by no means certain . |
| 5 | In the second panel the same people , considerably sobered and looking as if they had a serious hangover , were being led away by the classic medieval figure of Death , a grisly skeleton in a black robe and cowl , who rather reminded Preston of an old schoolmaster he had known called Mr Pilkington . |
| 6 | He conferred with Willys , who duly informed Thurloe of his whereabouts , having first warned Ormonde to change his lodgings , so enabling him to keep one jump ahead of the pursuit . |
| 7 | HARALD ‘ Toni ’ Schumacher , the former German international goalkeeper who arguably robbed France of a World Cup final place , ended his career with a testimonial in Cologne last night . |
| 8 | R. J. Campbell was himself a highly successful , because dramatic and controversial , preacher who eventually left Congregationalism for the Church of England . |
| 9 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 10 | It must have been a worrying time for Titfords and Hasteds alike , not to mention the rest of the inhabitants of the densely-populated riverside parishes ; the victims of the killer — or rather the remains — were laid to rest in a corner of St George 's churchyard , while the murderer himself , who eventually committed suicide , was buried with a stake through him at the top of Cannon Street where the newly-built Commercial Road crossed . |
| 11 | Perhaps it is not so surprising , since Tony Bowran learnt his craft from the practitioners of the finest photographic advertising images of the ‘ 70's , and like the painters of previous years that he so admires and draws great inspiration from , they too had apprentices who eventually became masters in their own time . |
| 12 | Two of the boys from amongst these pioneers went on to study Mathematics at Cambridge , with great success , to Daniels ' pride : J. G. Adshead of Caius College , who eventually became Professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University , Nova Scotia , and W. L. Edge of Trinity College , who held a similar post in the University of Edinburgh . |
| 13 | The other MP nominated to the Committee , who eventually became President of the Institute , was William Tite ( 1798–1873 ) . |
| 14 | It could have been written by its bearer , given by Florence as Abbot Lyfing of Tavistock , who eventually became bishop of Worcester , for this would further explain how Florence had a copy . |
| 15 | The children of women with schizophrenia followed up by Mednick and his colleagues ( 1981a ) who eventually developed schizophrenia were more likely to have had perinatal complications than those who had had a non-traumatic birth . |
| 16 | Suffolk , who eventually beat Hertfordshire 18–15 to take runners-up spot , would have taken top honours had Clark not pulled off such an immaculate saver . |
| 17 | In the 1060s and 1070s Sicily fell to the Normans , and it was they who eventually captured Palermo in 1072 . |
| 18 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 19 | The referee , Alfred Buksh , who rarely had control of a game that at one point seemed unlikely to be completed , booked Wimbledon 's Phelan , Wise , Young and the physiotherapist , Steve Allen , for treating an injured player without permission , and West Ham 's Allen and Dicks , before his dismissal . |
| 20 | Their task is nowhere better summed up than by Ernest Newman , one of the great music critics of his day , who rarely watched ballet until intrigued by the news that Massine was creating ballets to Tchaikovsky 's fifth Symphony ( Les Présages , London 1933 ) and to Brahms ' Fourth Symphony ( Choreartium , London 1933 ) . |
| 21 | There were too many people who badly needed dentistry and looked like they played the banjo . |
| 22 | Only rarely did its opponents win a victory like that of George Norris , the progressive Republican Senator who successfully opposed government plans to sell off dams and nitrogen-processing plants at Muscle Shoals in the Tennessee Valley . |
| 23 | A recent assessment of Beccaria has portrayed him as a cautious conservative who successfully redirected enlightenment thinking away from a potentially much more radical path : ‘ His sudden fame can be attributed to the relief of educated society that it was possible to hold rational ‘ enlightened ’ views on human behaviour without having to accept radical materialism' ( Jenkins , 1984 , p. 113 ) . |
| 24 | Another photographed and named victim who successfully resisted rape described her ordeal . |
| 25 | The Times obituary said ‘ By his death the veterinary world has lost one of the last of the band of pioneers who successfully converted veterinarianism into the great profession which is constantly advancing both in scientific knowledge and in public esteem . ’ |
| 26 | Lawyers are already claiming there is no real precedent , because the Japanese being compensated are those who personally experienced internment , whereas no US black can claim direct and personal damage by ‘ the peculiar institution ’ . |
| 27 | The King of Saudi Arabia who personally gave £150,000 today sent his personal wishes to Laura and her family . |
| 28 | Thomas took himself a wife , Elizabeth Cooke , one of the three Cooke sisters , who greatly influenced society in their day . |
| 29 | The man who so impressed Jack Nicklaus in last year 's Open struck a four iron to eight feet for a two at the next and added three more birdies . |
| 30 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |