Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 2 | The late Victorian period was the first in which there were considerable numbers of agnostics , atheists and opponents of organized religion who led lives of exemplary respectability ; it could not be urged of Huxley , Clifford or Tyndall that they were irreligious because they were libertines , like the earlier ungodly . |
| 3 | Our mail gig party consisted of the Highlander who owned the dog , a woman with a very large bundle , a young man just home from his studies at a school in Germany , going to join a family party at Gairloch , and two men I would judge to be shepherds , possibly coming from Muir of Ord after selling their sheep . |
| 4 | Fraser , originally a Gordon Highlander who had fought in France in the rearguard actions of 1940 , had been in the S.A.S. from the beginning , and both were veterans of classic raids in Sicily and Italy . |
| 5 | Thankfully , he found St Erconwald 's fairly deserted except for Watkin to whom he gave strict instructions about the custody of the church , and Ranulf the rat-catcher who had come to remind him of his promise that if a Guild of Rat-Catchers were founded , St Erconwald 's could be their chantry church . |
| 6 | He remembered the many faces of Sylvie , the child-woman with the mischievous glance who had stolen apples in the Paris market , the girl he had obsessively trailed , the passionate creature who had boldly come to his flat and pleasured him to the point of pain , the frightened child who pushed him away and clung to him simultaneously . |
| 7 | This was no longer the wily old ecclesiastical politician from the metropole who had first closed down Martinho 's seminary news-letter and then later , seeing which way the wind blew , had made an unholy , if tacit , alliance with Caesar in the shape of Osvaldo . |
| 8 | ‘ We have nothing to add at the moment , ’ said a spokesperson for the betting shops association who advised bookies to withhold winnings after Jo N Jack 's success eight days ago . |
| 9 | The warning follows a case involving a member of the British Epilepsy Association who had a seizure during hospital tests involving a two day fast . |
| 10 | He said he would be pressing for the expulsion of several members of the local association who had privately aired derogatory views about a black candidate while publicly supporting him . |
| 11 | Critics range from Charles Lee , a former president of the British Antique Dealers Association who described the move as a ‘ smack in the eye ’ and castigated Sotheby 's for charging 25% to their customers ( i.e. 10% from vendors and 15% from buyers ) . |
| 12 | His stay was brief , for in 1950 it was sold to the West Midlands Farmers Association who remained until 1974 . |
| 13 | Norwich , who in spite of an outstandingly good record of behaviour were fined £50,000 , must be wondering if this is the same Football Association who dealt with them so severely only last month . |
| 14 | The first is to ‘ Learn from Lei Feng ’ , the model soldier who died nearly 30 years ago . |
| 15 | Killed in crossfire … the British soldier who died fighting for the Croatians . |
| 16 | Five hundred mourners have attended the funeral of a soldier who died when an RAF Hercules crashed , killing all nine people on board . |
| 17 | But the Legion 's North West regional officer Peter Holland said : ‘ If you put every name of every soldier who died while on active service where would you stop ? ’ |
| 18 | A different answer , however , might be given to a soldier who followed a leader of his own choosing — for pay ; he could not plead obedience if his conscience left him uneasy . |
| 19 | The Northern Echo , based in Darlington , Co Durham , yesterday said it had received pictures of 150 terrorist suspects from a former soldier who said he wished to illustrate ‘ shambles ’ of Ulster security . |
| 20 | I will spring a tear , come to attention and salute that old Scottish soldier who took an alien handed to feed his family and still bring honour to the 91st of Foot . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 22 | What would then , what would be your solution as a soldier who served over there , a victim of terrorism , what would your solution be ? |
| 23 | A soldier who feared flying was fined £600 yesterday for endangering a civil aircraft and disobeying the captain 's orders . |
| 24 | Quote the story of the old soldier who saw that a watch had fallen into a bear-pit , climbed down into it , and was eaten . |
| 25 | Police have praised the bravery of a teenage soldier who dragged himself from the wreckage of his car after being speared with a wooden stake . |
| 26 | Born in 1913 in Silesia , the descendant of a Turkish soldier who had settled in Poland after being captured by the Poles at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 , he was educated at a Gymnasium in Warsaw and at the Universities of Warsaw , Berlin and Bordeaux , where he studied history and journalism . |
| 27 | They both had that deathly pallor that showed on every soldier who had been wounded . |
| 28 | The blood was oozing out from the tip of his boot and his face had turned the usual grey colour of the soldier who had been wounded . |
| 29 | Just a soldier who had got too big for his boots . |
| 30 | The likelihood of a hard-up , poorly-paid soldier who had left town for good ever returning to pay his debts was negligible . |