Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot , who occasionally attended Ouspensky 's seances in London in 1920 and who used the Tarot and Madam Sosostris in the London of The Waste Land , was familiar with the decay of magic ; but the man who attacked Back to Methuselah in 1921 hardly shared Frazer 's Comtian , progressive tone . |
| 2 | I wrote to my mother who lived up at Manzanita with her sister , Mrs. R. V. Hungerford , telling her how I was leaving my position and would write again when I had found some place I liked . |
| 3 | Most of Wordsworth 's readers who have left us their opinions were middle-class , but we must remember that he addressed his poetry to readers of all classes and we do not know how much the choice of natural subject matter may have meant to urban dwellers who lived out of sight of flowers and trees . |
| 4 | Tom Cruise puts in a fine performance as Ron Kovic , disabled Vietnam vet who fought back against indifference from the country he fought for , but somehow Oliver Stone 's direction still leaves the viewer unmoved by his plight |
| 5 | We usually carried three or four experienced deck and engineer cutter officers who doubled up as instructors . |
| 6 | Or central defender Teale who limped out of White Hart Lane , also nursing a wound above his left eye . |
| 7 | Despite the absence of the injured Ally McCoist and Richard Gough , who limped off at half-time , Britain 's best somehow clawed their way to a draw . |
| 8 | Vice-captain Gary Bennett , who limped off against West Ham with a thigh injury , will miss Saturday 's game at Southend but hopes to be fit for the FA Cup replay . |
| 9 | The convoy , who met up at Dover , consisted of a number of large vehicles , carrying essential supplies such as food , building , plumbing and electrical equipment for the orphanage . |
| 10 | Before he could fit in a visit , he was forestalled by Len Brayton , Maisie 's father , who rode down to Aumery Park Farm one Wednesday in mid-January , after attending the market at Kirkbymoorside . |
| 11 | Apart from Perdita , the Rutshire team for the Jack Gannon Cup consisted of Justin and Patrick Lombard , farmer 's sons who 'd spent their lives in the saddle and who made up for lack of finesse with dogged determination , and David Waterlane 's son , Mike , now nearly twenty-one , who played like an angel when his father was n't on the sideline bellowing at him . |
| 12 | Many rural taxpayers at £40 and upwards on goods were yeomen who made up in substance what they lacked in status . |
| 13 | Saw another social worker who got on to housing . |
| 14 | Some anonymous little department at D15 that took care of people who got out of line , but would that necessarily mean they 'd have a go at me ? |
| 15 | This courtesy , tenderly performed , seemed right out of place to me , but it went down okay with Mrs Davis , who peered up at Fielding for quite a time before she said , |
| 16 | Another sure to improve for being stepped up in trip is Saint Keyne , who bolted up at Haydock last time and now goes for the Queen 's Vase . |
| 17 | Saint Keyne , who bolted up at Haydock last time , will improve for the step up in trip for the Queen 's Vase . |
| 18 | Also to , computer programmer , and wife , on the birth of their child who weighed in at 7lb 1½ oz on May 8 . |
| 19 | These are , for example , the nameless and faceless workers who lined up for work in response to Henry Ford 's visionary offer of a $5-per-day paycheck . |
| 20 | They will include Alan Phair , who lined out for King 's Scholars , Portadown and Malone , and Ray McClelland , a former Academy player . |
| 21 | SEVENTY-EIGHT-year-old Pop Staples belongs to that great generation of bluesmen who moved up from Mississippi to Chicago in the 1930s . |
| 22 | Linda Stapleton , who moved down from Middlesex 10 years ago , and is secretary of the North Devon community health council in Barnstaple , agrees : ‘ Services down here are generally very good , but you have to go further and choice can be limited . |
| 23 | Skinner , who moved back to Blackheath from Harlequins at the end of last season , underwent surgery in the summer and had hoped to play against Bath at the weekend . |
| 24 | He also beat off attacks from Turkish forces who moved in from Bosnia in the west and Rumelia in the south-east . |
| 25 | However , most who moved out of cities as a result of planned decentralization did so through the new-town programme . |
| 26 | Enter Mike , a Londoner who moved out to Lausanne six years ago ( and may be remembered for his '83 cover version of Timmy Thomas 's ‘ Why Ca n't We Live Together ’ as erm , Mike Anthony ) . |
| 27 | ‘ You can park here and see a good deal of stock in an hour or two , ’ claims Barbara Humble , who moved out from Bath two years ago . |
| 28 | The occasional encounter with someone who seemed out of place was a relief . |
| 29 | Vic feels his blood pressure rising at the thought of his eldest son , who dropped out of university four months ago and has not been usefully occupied since , now swaddled in a duvet upstairs , naked except for a single gold earring , sleeping off last night 's booze . |
| 30 | Nick Logan was n't one of these ; he was a ‘ ticket ’ , a mod who came up to town by train , from Walthamstow in his case , which was where he grew up , left school at 15 and joined the local paper . |