Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb -s] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In true spy fashion , there is also a mysterious third man , Brian Litman , a Hollywood-based producer and agent who has signed up the Foreign Intelligence Veterans Association , a fraternal association in Moscow of 500 old spies made up of retirees from the former Soviet secret service . |
| 2 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 3 | It 's like the school big boy who 's beaten up a first year and |
| 4 | The man was questioned by officers working on Operation Mountbatten — the police hunt for the so-called Horse Ripper who has carried out almost 30 attacks over the last 18 months in Hampshire and surrounding counties . |
| 5 | ‘ Peace be to Lieutenant Denholm but he 's a civilian electronics specialist who 's come out to fix some abstruse electronic fault that only he can fix . |
| 6 | These examples may seem to be somewhat removed from the experience of a child who has grown up in an inner-city slum . |
| 7 | That is a child who has grown up with books instead of wallpaper . |
| 8 | Among the winners : a society of Japanese housewives which distributes environmentally sound products ; an Ethiopian agronomist who has built up a seed bank of plants for use in time of drought , and Survival International , which campaigns for the rights of tribal peoples . |
| 9 | CATHERINE GRAY ex-schoolteacher who has given up because of blindness , age about forty-five . |
| 10 | Again , the frequency of masturbation is perhaps highest among older males recently defeated by a newcomer male who has taken over the sexual role in his harem . |
| 11 | The Damned ( 1961 , These are the Damned in US ) compares the violence of contemporary youth to the behaviour of a scientist who has locked up a group of children for experiments . |
| 12 | It has been suggested by Dennis Milner — doctor of science in the metallurgy department at Birmingham University who has carried out much research into etheric force-field photography — that the different potency levels relate to the different planes of being in the following way : |
| 13 | I am a woman , and also a writer who has used up her allotment of renown during her own lifetime ; and on those two grounds I do not expect much pity , or much understanding , from posterity . |
| 14 | I 've got one friend who has written down in a diary every person he 's ever re arrested , I do n't do that , I just , I , I ca n't be bothered to write it all down . |
| 15 | You make a cup of tea for a friend who has called around to express their condolences only to find as you pour it out , that there is no tea in the pot . |
| 16 | It is an area I do not know and the reason for choosing it came from a close friend who has put up with the knowledge of my obsession for many years now and still remains the closest of friends . |
| 17 | Robinson , who is primarily a one-day opener but who scored two fifties when going in first in the final game of last year at Old Trafford , may press Alikhan , as could Paul Atkins and Ally Brown , a gifted striker of the ball who has tightened up his game . |
| 18 | In fact , you are the only person who has turned up . |
| 19 | The quest for social pain becomes a preoccupation with my own pain — after all , feminists usually start from their point of identification with other women , and I have my own troubles too , like I 'm also " intentionally homeless ' , a person who 's got out in order to get up . |
| 20 | ‘ Juval Aviv is a very astute investigator who has come up with some very plausible explanations , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
| 22 | our age who 's saved up , er how d' ya qualify that price with today 's prices , cos every pound you save then , is er , is worth nowt today is it ? |
| 23 | Receptionist who has moved back to Newcastle following her husband 's transfer from the computer centre to in Durham . |
| 24 | A DARLINGTON artist who has set up her own business is painting for a Prince . |
| 25 | It is about a man who gets fed up with the New York rat race and forsakes advertising to buy a Gendamerie in Provence . |
| 26 | Durance sighed , the long deep sigh of a man who has given up hope . |
| 27 | It certainly was a disgusting display from a man who has bowed out from the game very publicly . |
| 28 | The experience is made doubly uncomfortable because the man facing them is Dr Giovanni Agnelli , the founder 's grandson , director for 49 years , chairman for 26 , and the man who has built up an enterprise with a turnover of £26bn and 300,000 employees . |
| 29 | This is the man who has conjured up fresh doubts about the validity of the so-called Dianagate tapes . |
| 30 | This is the man who has conjured up fresh doubts about the validity of the so-called Dianagate tapes . |