Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His son Rolf , who disowned him after failing to extract any signs of remorse from him , visited him in 1977 . |
| 2 | He gave two solos to girls who repaid him by becoming loyal workers for many years . |
| 3 | He was a man who prided himself on having everything at his fingertips , but he had not counted on Berdichev 's directness . |
| 4 | The fact that obligations of kinship and personal lordship , and the justice of the feud , were extremely effective methods of control in the localities of early modem Scotland naturally carried little conviction for societies who prided themselves on having advanced beyond these things ; and since a long historiographical tradition has much preferred kings who reduced the powers of their aristocracies , and signed their account books , the Scottish monarchy , whose power rested on quite different things , has not attracted much praise . |
| 5 | They were vetted by Lady Wardley , who prided herself on knowing all the Northumbrian families worth knowing . |
| 6 | The fisheries of the Suli islands between North Borneo and the Philippines , though not particularly rich in pearls , produced fine mother-of-pearl , a material keenly sought by the Chinese who used it for making inlays . |
| 7 | Since previous to the revolution the majority of women had very low levels of education and , therefore , few opportunities open to them , the FMC embarked on an educational program and a rehabilitation scheme for the many women who found themselves in degrading and unrewarding situations . |
| 8 | It was Chris who prodded him into handing over to Patrick . |
| 9 | For this purpose they appointed to serve under them a staff of foresters , carrying bows and arrows , for whom they were personally responsible , and who maintained themselves by levying contributions from the forest inhabitants . |
| 10 | In fact it was you I think who stopped me from pulling it up , I bought it as a , a stick from Bromley , in Bromley |
| 11 | A Malaysian was jailed for five years for biting off the finger of a policeman who stopped him from stealing a motorcycle . |
| 12 | In 1864 the Mercury complained about the ‘ country louts who disfigured themselves by daubing their faces with red and black paint , and by weaning bonnets , gowns and shawls … ’ |
| 13 | On his way through the underground roads , he met a miner who told him of having seen heavy machinery being moved along by an unknown force . |
| 14 | So for a while , the President of the United States effectively had world power , there was no other power in the world who could stand up to the U S , er , after , after , World War One for one argument anyway , and I think Freud 's er , defence disposition would be , Woodrow Wilson was the man who came to Europe , saying he would bring a just peace for all , and went away leaving a total mess , and , and , Freud 's er argument in his book is , told us was , well , the mess er , was really Wilson 's own doing , and if it was his doing , what was it in his character that allowed him to er , si to on some Lloyd George , who bullied him into getting most of what they wanted . |
| 15 | Who paid you for doing that ? |
| 16 | A final problem was the potential conflict with her stepson , who blamed her for allowing Mr Allen 's problem to become so serious . |
| 17 | They were addressed by Hume and McCann , who congratulated them on breaking the ban on city-centre marches . |
| 18 | I was summoned to the matron ( the then equivalent of director of nursing services ) who thanked me for telling her , but asked whether I was aware that the consultant was the most senior in the faculty , and probably one of the world 's most eminent ? |
| 19 | Blessed for a military man with unusual fluency with the pen , Lugard brought to this task a literary energy and a crusading passion which seem to have mesmerized those who heard him into believing that a discovery of the first importance in the field of imperial administration had just been made . |
| 20 | In consequence he became , in Liddie 's eyes , the kind of mother her own mother had been — one who disabled her by taking over . |
| 21 | Paul lay still and silent till the doctor came ; a burly , bearded man who examined him after making sure that they could be left undisturbed . |
| 22 | Firbank had no close emotional attachments , save with his mother ; but in 1919 he seems to have become infatuated with the Hon. Evan Morgan , who rebuffed him by refusing the dedication of his only play , The Princess Zoubaroff , days before its publication in 1920 . |
| 23 | In November 1974 , it was he who talked me into going along for the audition for ‘ New faces ’ at the Blue Angel nightclub in Leeds . |
| 24 | That 's illustrated by the fact that four people who kept them on did not get caught |
| 25 | She says that she was half strangled by a group of youths who taunted her by insulting her boyfriend 's colour . |
| 26 | He was , moreover , an extremely wealthy young man who thought nothing of taking a string of polo ponies wherever he went . |
| 27 | True , he had become used to being interrupted — there were , in the category of interrupters , young feckless poets who thought nothing of calling and expecting to be subsidised without there being any thought of reimbursement . |
| 28 | Personally , I would go further : employers who took it for granted that this was exactly what they were doing should not be open to fresh claims from the DSS . |
| 29 | The early feminists make more of an impression on us than the overwhelming mass of their contemporary sisters who took it for granted that their place in society would be one of legal and social inequality to men . |
| 30 | Some , however , refused to be impressed : in 1858 , when his fame was just beginning , a lady known to history only as Miss Marsh , and someone who occupied herself in converting Irish navvies , was told that the man in the railway carriage she was about to enter was Mr Spurgeon . |