Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
| 2 | Western philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who speculated on these matters usually emphasized two criteria : |
| 3 | A telephone call to London found an agent who specialised in such transactions , and an appointment was made . |
| 4 | He thought that any Special Agent who dressed like this guy would be disciplined . |
| 5 | There 's only so much that anybody 's brain can handle at any one time so let's just do a little experiment because there was a chap called George Miller an American psychologist who worked on this idea of what is the capacity of the brain , how many bits of information can the brain hold on to at any given time . |
| 6 | Marx and Engels suggest that priests were the first ideologists who emerged at this stage . |
| 7 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 8 | The yeomen , husbandmen and craftsmen who lived in these tenements had mostly just a single fireplace in their timber-framed houses at the time of the hearth tax return of 1672 . |
| 9 | I wanted to ensure that foreign visitors who came to this country were also covered by insurance . |
| 10 | The small tradesmen or shopkeepers who made up most Boards of Guardians throughout the period were unlikely to resist such pressure since their elections to the Boards depended upon the ratepayers . |
| 11 | Remember that fellow at work who walked into that gallery and just put it under his coat ? |
| 12 | It was held that this was insufficient information to give an arrestee , and the constable who arrested in those circumstances had gone beyond the scope of his duty since he was exercising his admitted power improperly . |
| 13 | This was graphically symbolised by the notice in the outer court of the temple threatening death to any Gentiles who went beyond that point . |
| 14 | ‘ Could the doctor have been called in the hour of desperate need by an angel who appeared as this woman 's young daughter ? ’ queries Mr Graham . |
| 15 | The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent . |
| 16 | A young motorist who crashed into another car while reversing at a fast speed escaped a driving ban at Whitby magistrates yesterday . |
| 17 | Five years on , with the Nazis extending their anti-Semitic reach , Willi 's guardian , a Russian Jewess who looked after several refugee children , decided it was time for a mountain trek to more hospitable territory . |
| 18 | Minton 's generous hospitality was extended to many , to Robert Frame , Leslie Todd-Reeve and his wife , Nessie Dunsmuir and her sister who lodged for several weeks at Hamilton Terrace before and after a major operation . |
| 19 | He was also aware that constant allusions to the awful consequences of not keeping the lid screwed down would bring to heel , like so many Pavlovian dogs , those within his own camp who hankered after some form of leadership other than his . |
| 20 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 21 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
| 22 | It is hoped that the reader will participate to some extent in this activity by sharing the perspective of the workshop team who worked on this text . |
| 23 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 24 | Families of those immigrants who came after that point in time were classed as illegal until the announcement of the new policy . |
| 25 | Nor do I for a moment suppose that anyone there recognized him , nor was he the sort of author who basked in that kind of admiration . |
| 26 | Its leaders were local magnates who co-operated with each other by exchanging and transporting stolen cattle . |
| 27 | And yet it was persons who died in such numbers , without ever necessarily subscribing to the consequences of their own actions . |
| 28 | On the other side of the entrance to Garden Cottages was a small house in the occupation of Mr. Truckle who was a coalman and his wife who worked for many years at The Salisbury Steam Laundry . |
| 29 | The main issue on the agenda of the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies , which opened in Moscow on July 10 with Yeltsin 's formal inauguration as Russian President [ see p. 38273 for his election in June ] , was the election of a chairman to the Supreme Soviet ( standing parliament ) to replace Yeltsin who resigned from this post on becoming President . |
| 30 | In contrast to his predecessors who worked at all hours of the day Macmillan tended to keep office hours . |