Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was he after all who had led her to arrest Taczek , he who had indirectly led her into the chief superintendent 's office that morning to have her face sprayed with warm saliva . |
| 2 | The cult had remained after those who had brought it had embraced the gods of the Black Land , the true gods , the gods of the land in which they now lived , but it remained as no more than a fashion among the rich . |
| 3 | All he needed to do was to collect the votes of the majority of MAs who had left the University . |
| 4 | Jack Rogers was a man of fifty who had worked on the shop-floor all his working life . |
| 5 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 6 | Can you admire or respect a successful businessman at the age of fifty who has accumulated wealth , yet lost his health while doctors warn ‘ Lose at least 5 stones and stop drinking or you will be dead before your next birthday ’ ? |
| 7 | Ella Bembridge was a formidably hearty spinster of fifty-five who had lived , with a wilting friend of much the same age , in a small cottage on the Lulling corner of Thrush Green for the past ten years . |
| 8 | The Philippines consul-general , Wenceslao Quirolgico , said yesterday Kuwait had also pledged to help the repatriation to Manila of 300 who have taken refuge at the Philippine embassy complaining of abuse by employers . |
| 9 | A few days more and the man 's body would have been buried completely — another name to add to the list of 12 who have disappeared in the Gredos over the past two years . |
| 10 | The living is cheap and the people are friendly , with a large contingent of British who have chosen to make a permanent home here . |
| 11 | Think of some who have influenced you through their knowledge of God . |
| 12 | On the steps of the City Hall he spoke to a crowd of 50,000 who had waited for hours for his appearance . |
| 13 | He was a liberal conservative gentleman from a line of such who had cultivated their patch of Wiltshire since one of the first gentrifications four centuries previously . |
| 14 | This was a man of forty-six who had had multiple sclerosis for six years . |
| 15 | Your correspondent climbed the Mittelegi Ridge with Roger Alton of The Guardian , followed closely by Doug Scott and Sharu Prabhu , with Tibetan refugee , 14-year-old Karma Sondup , plus James Kagambi from Kenya and Tess Borroughs , a Surrey mother of three who has worked full time for Climb for the World since first reading of it in this magazine last year . |
| 16 | For here , in 1366 , the future King Henry IV was born ; the son of John of gaunt who had inherited Bolingbroke Castle through his wife , who was heiress to the Lancaster estates . |
| 17 | A past stress of a different nature is seen in the case of a woman of twenty-seven who had felt chronically debilitated and unwell for years . |
| 18 | The study aimed to include mobile non-insulin dependent diabetic patients under the age of 80 who had attended the district general hospital diabetic clinics in the previous two years . |
| 19 | Although , as an exercise against Republican democracy , the military rising of 18 July 1936 had had the backing of all who had sympathized with the Nationalist cause , there were many who felt that the result of the war — a military dictatorship — was not what they had intended . |
| 20 | To all complaints about his conduct he made the same answer : he was bound by the decree of 1099 , which obliged him to withdraw from the communion of all who had taken part in ceremonies of investiture or homage . |
| 21 | The spirits of Eileen and the Commander and of all who had died there , would crowd about him more densely than the blown petals of the flowering cherries . |
| 22 | His main aim in these months was to reconcile and renew the nation : hence no revolution , but most of the reforms that the CNR had wanted ; hence a purge , but not the wholesale purge of all who had had dealings with the Germans or with Vichy ; hence a referendum and free elections , but no plebiscite ( whatever his opponents alleged , the referendum of October 1945 was not a true plebiscite ) ; hence the presidency but no Gaullist party . |
| 23 | ‘ 'Ere , ’ said the man on stage , ‘ what about the widow who wore black garters in memory of all who had passed beyond ? ’ |
| 24 | We know several of our teachers who now hold this award but with to ensure that we have the names of all who have achieved it . |
| 25 | Thomas Hardy 's story of the death of poor little Fanny Robin and her new-born child in Far From the Madding Crowd is etched on the memory of all who have read it . |
| 26 | We use the teapot frequently , enjoying the look and feel of it and thinking of all who have used it before us . |
| 27 | The Shias , the growing community of poor who had suffered more than any other Lebanese , were curiously never mentioned . |
| 28 | To give the poor lad his due , he 's only one of many who 've done the same . |
| 29 | By the testimonies of such as rugby 's Gareth Chilcott and boxing 's Frank Bruno , to name but two of many who have acknowledged how sport saved them from going off the rails as youngsters , it can claim an increasingly influential niche in society . |
| 30 | From the point of view of many who have traced the development of religious thought over the last two hundred years , theism ceased to be unshakeable long before , in the twentieth century , Ayer and others from the school of ‘ logical positivism ’ sought to make it impossible . |