Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It seems likely that when he received these papers , Palmerston , to forestall those critics who said that he was out of touch with current architectural ideas , instructed Donaldson to arrange for him to meet Lamb and other architects who agreed with his views .
2 Frank , and those who agreed with his theory of the development of underdevelopment , unequivocally denied that capitalism could ever develop the Third World .
3 On the one hand , then , there would have been the so-called ‘ Herodian Sadducees ’ , who clung to their Temple privileges and prerogatives under Herod 's reign and , after his death , accommodated themselves to the Roman administration .
4 The Chinese kept the situation under control , and Zhang Xueliang , who succeeded to his father 's position , harboured considerable resentment at those who had caused his father 's death .
5 Shortly before he retired Foulston took into partnership the architect George Wightwick [ q.v. ] , who succeeded to his practice .
6 A Middle Eastern intelligence analyst , who asked for his name to be withheld as he was employed by another agency , was even more emphatic .
7 Even that did not stop Pugh getting quizzical looks from the referee who asked about his age , so I told him that he was not the Pugh named as sub in the programme but the club mascot .
8 Murphy was assistant to Fitzgerald , who quit after their defeat by Australia in October .
9 EXPERIENCED stuntman Michael ‘ Tip ’ Tipping , who plunged to his death during a reconstruction of a parachuting accident , may have pulled a dummy ripcord by mistake , an inquest was told today .
10 NATIONAL fingerprint records are being checked in a bid to identify a man who plunged to his death from a bridge .
11 Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see .
12 For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families .
13 erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ?
14 There were two daughters of the marriage , Sophie , born in 1830 , who became the wife of Sir George Bailey , of Seal Close , in the Lincolnshire Wolds , and Christabel , born in 1825 , who lived with her parents until in 1853 a small independence , left her by a maiden aunt , Antoinette de Kercoz , enabled her to set up house in Richmond in Surrey , with a young woman friend whom she had met at a lecture of Ruskin 's .
15 We had secretly videotaped Marshall , who lived with her parents in the Royal Mews at the Palace , selling high-quality cocaine .
16 Then there was a great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Tallentire , who was Grandmother Bayles 's mother , who lived with her husband at a farm over at Holwick , which is a little way out of Baldersdale , on the way to Middleton in Teesdale .
17 Their mother Audrey , who lived with her husband Corpral William Marshall at the barracks , said she was alerted by a kitten crying .
18 He had been attracted to a young lady who lived with her mother ; he called on them constantly , smiling all the time , but never saying what he was after ; with the inevitable result that the damsel got tired of her tortoise " , and gave her hand to a brisker suitor .
19 But it emerged that Mrs McMullen , who lived with her mother and brother at Derby Road in Brynteg , Wrexham , had been the victim of a vicious attack .
20 So was Alice Dodds , who lived with her family at the far end of the Butts .
21 He was Alec Scrimgeour , an elderly and successful stockbroker , who lived with his sister Ethel in a fine house near Chichester .
22 The house itself was owned by a Polish man who lived with his wife and two sons in Clapham .
23 JOHN MOWLEM 'S HOUSE , 2 Victoria Terrace , was one of the four houses newly erected in the lower High Street by his brother-in-law , Robert Burt , who lived with his family at number one , later Burt 's Restaurant and now the White Horse Inn .
24 Now this story is about a boy who lived with his mother .
25 Samuel , who lived with his mother until 1652 or later , collaborated with her in the 1640s in campaigning for religious freedom and upholding the autonomy of individual congregations .
26 In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election .
27 No dietary deficiencies in people who lived on her soup !
28 The dominance of the figure of Frederick Barbarossa makes it easy to lose sight of other major characters who lived during his reign .
29 The hold which the mountain had on Richard 's imagination , and indeed on the attention of all who lived in its shadow , was not related to its height or its beauty , but to the succession of mysteries which Lochnagar revealed only to those who climbed it .
30 Standards were more likely to be improved , it was said , if parents had a greater choice of schools , and the new Technology Colleges were now to be among the choices on offer for those who lived in their catchment area .
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