Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muller , 21 , of Millbuie Farm , Skene , Aberdeenshire , who admitted contravening the 1809 Concealment of Birth ( Scotland ) Act , was placed on probation for a year . |
| 2 | Scott 's estranged wife , Yvonne ( 25 ) , who admitted attacking the RUC constables , avoided prison because she is five months pregnant with McKinney 's child . |
| 3 | Gordon Orchard , a 61-year-old former Coldstream guardsman , who admitted abducting the child last summer , had 50 previous convictions , including indecent assault and attempted rape , but was sentenced as if they did not exist . |
| 4 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 5 | Osred with his supporters , led by a nobleman , Berhtfrith ( possibly a son of the Berhtred who perished fighting the Picts in 698 ) , was at Bamburgh . |
| 6 | Since both Greek and Turkish Cypriot political leaders accepted that a new Cyprus republic would have a federal and bizonal character , the essence of the pre-conference negotiations concerned the proportion of territory the Turkish authorities in occupied Cyprus were willing to cede to what would effectively become the Greek area in a federal republic ( early indications being that they were prepared to concede no more than 9 per cent of the occupied area ) , and precisely how many refugees could return , out of some 180,000 Greeks Cypriots who fled following the Turkish invasion . |
| 7 | An Australian lifeguard who tried using the air spade on a recent contract for London Underground gave up in tears after two hours . |
| 8 | Several who tried keeping the cats reported delightedly that this was the case . |
| 9 | Remember those soldiers who stopped fighting the Great War to play football across the Flanders trenches and exchange sweeties ? |
| 10 | He also plans to take out full-page newspaper advertisements , listing the names and telephone numbers of all the members of the Knesset who opposed repealing the law . |
| 11 | As with all other questions relating to the capping or limiting of grants from the Compensation Fund , the results were swayed heavily by the the large number of sole practitioners who replied using the SPG pro forma response , on which the answer here was ‘ no ’ and which went on to propose a cap of 150,000 for both institutional and private clients . |
| 12 | The surprising feature of this result was the widespread support for the introduction of a cap amongst sole practitioners who replied using the standard SPG form . |
| 13 | Describing himself as ‘ a retired fiddler ’ , he was reluctant to say which of the many festival events would be highlights for him , but could hardly deny , that one will certainly be a performance by his former pupil , Claire Roff , now 18 , who began playing the violin when she was only four . |
| 14 | Mr Hooker , a motor trade production foreman who began assembling the world 's largest collection of grips 12 years ago , has seen antique fair prices for rare ones rise from a fiver , two or three years ago , to the present £20-£30 , all due , he says , to the boom in advertising ephemera . |
| 15 | If he was the sort who enjoyed playing the field then she might have understood , but he did n't strike her as being that type at all . |
| 16 | IN THE Estonian-Latvian twin city of Valga-Valka , nobody is really clear about who started building the new ‘ Berlin Wall ’ that now divides it . |
| 17 | Having filled their buckets with bright red liquid ( thanks for the colouring ) contestants in Blind-man 's buff had to rely on shouts from supporters to get back to their corner with a few drops left in the buckets — no thanks to members of the Summer Fayre committee who kept moving the obstacles — just in case it good too easy you understand ! |
| 18 | No man wanted a wife who kept having the vapours . |
| 19 | Cati went in to Rosa , who lay gripping the down coverlet , to cram it into her face and muffle her sobs ; she climbed up next to her , and stroked her head , and tried to cradle her with a thin arm across her shaking shoulders and felt herself going dry in her throat and choked up too ; Rosa twisted , her red face glowered up at Cati . |
| 20 | Even amongst those who supported restricting the giving of accountants reports to registered auditors , concern was expressed that this might create a monopoly for larger accountancy firms who would then be in a position to charge higher fees . |
| 21 | THE IRANIAN Embassy 's Public Relations Department in London replied on 4 March to members who wrote supporting the immediate and unconditional release of Mohammadreza Nezameddin , the 74-year old retired civil servant serving a three year sentence for criticising President Hashemi Rafsanjani . |
| 22 | THE ISRAELI Embassy in London replied last month to members who wrote urging the release of Abie Nathan , a peace activist jailed for 18 months for ‘ openly meeting with Yasser Arafat and other members of the PLO ’ . |
| 23 | I got their programme and went to a lecture by Michel Odent who wrote Entering the World , a book that had really impressed me . |
| 24 | An authoritative denial of the Donaldson item came in and Rain passed it to Holly who regretted believing the man or the MacQuillans who had pushed her into writing it . |
| 25 | Officials of the National Liberal Party and National Peasant Party , who denied organising the Feb. 18 demonstration , called on the NSF to put an end to the systematic " terrorism " shown against them in recent weeks . |
| 26 | But yesterday the married father-of-three , who denied raping the 23-year-old , was jailed for 28 days at London 's Snaresbrook Crown Court on a lesser assault charge . |
| 27 | Over 60 descendants of the rubber barons , who continued exploiting the inhabitants , have been forced to leave . |
| 28 | Things changed last summer when she spoke to Dr John Elliston , Minister of Grange Road Baptist Church , who suggested using the church basement . |
| 29 | The man who suggested turning the Drummond House waste paper into hard cash is Edinburgh Facilities Transport Manager , Hugh Sinclair . |
| 30 | The Worksop trainer was one of the few who missed seeing the gelding , bought with another yearling for £3,250 , pull six lengths clear . |