Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For anyone who has yet to come up with an idea , BVP will provide access into the venture portfolio of 140 successful US products , established by companies which have already developed their product and secured a significant market share . |
| 2 | There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains . |
| 3 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 4 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |
| 5 | They were all sitting there staring at me and Monsieur de Levantiére said , ‘ This is Constance , who has kindly stepped in at the last moment . ’ |
| 6 | Any character who has n't hung on at least 8 feet up the stairs ( 9 feet for a Dwarf , 10 for a Halfling ) will be submerged below the filth . |
| 7 | Sir John Hall ( who has n't cottoned on to the sponsored pitch idea yet ) said after assuming the chairmanship of Newcastle United ‘ If this was a business it would have failed ’ . |
| 8 | Getting this ingredient off the drawing boards and into bricks and mortar — not to mention details such as Donald Duck doorknobs — was indeed the stuff of dreams for Stern , who has always stood up for emotional content : ‘ In my view , whether you are engaged in a theme park , a hospital , or a court house , the building should elicit some excitement . ’ |
| 9 | And if memory serves ( what was she called , that girl who did the PR for Windscale , Sellafield I should say , and Aldershot FC ? ) , oh yes , Daphne Grierson , who has now moved on to greater things and is image adviser to Nigel Canada ( is that correct ? ) the teenage fiddle-player . |
| 10 | Stop listening to people , such as Mr Kinnock , who has now written out to C L Ps telling them that they should be changing the way that the unions are linked to this Labour Party , not at all . |
| 11 | She turns to the visitor , who has now subsided on to a settee . |
| 12 | ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott . |
| 13 | Maggie reckons her family should be help up as a warning to everyone who has never got round to it . |
| 14 | ‘ In the Half Moon , the day before yesterday , the man who seemed so fed up about our having this cottage was called ‘ My lord — Mr Smith ’ . |
| 15 | Around the Old Executive Office Building , where the NSC staff had their offices , North was remembered as a man who seemed always caught up in some dark drama : leaving for the airport , constantly being paged in meetings , ‘ looking like a ghost ’ in the corridor . |
| 16 | An innocent who 'd somehow wandered down into the rat run , just asking to get bitten . |
| 17 | There was a certain cynicism in the agency girl 's eyes , but Diane was n't somebody who 'd just climbed down off the backwoods bus . |
| 18 | The man who 'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall , very lean , very dark . |
| 19 | A high powered Sierra was careering down a steep hill in Wotton under Edge.When the driver reached the bottom he lost control and ploughed into the women who 'd just got out of their parked cars . |
| 20 | There was a desert island room , a medieval castle , a railway Pullman carriage , a dungeon , a school classroom , and a hospital ward for those who 'd never grown out of playing doctors and nurses . |
| 21 | The next minute , he was the teasing , confident extrovert who 'd calmly stripped off in front of her in his bedroom that night . |
| 22 | Mr Clarke revealed the fresh job losses when he addressed the annual conference of the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers in Weymouth , where he faced angry questions from delegates who feel badly let down by the corporation . |
| 23 | I am not talking about that kind of quietness ; rather the loneliness of people who feel quite cut off from God , from others , from society . |
| 24 | The Registered Visiting Students enriched our experience by their contributions to College life and we were delighted to welcome back Emma Sky who went out to fly back with Mona Wahbe , from Gaza , who is sponsored by the Oxford Student Scholarship Fund and is famous for her sparkle and animated use of English . |
| 25 | By that I mean those of us who do n't fit in to the stereotypes created by our culture , and refuse to be ; for example , such like myself who are n't rapacious materialists , fashion victims , empty-headed bimbos , domineering matriarchs who perpetually have a pan of chicken soup on the hob and a home-made cake ready for everloving family to devour . |
| 26 | ‘ A Hollywood movie about two cops who do n't get along at first but are thrown together on a case involving drugs , foreigners , lots of fights and guns and which ends up with them respecting each other and winning . |
| 27 | But there are few women and even fewer men who do n't slip up at some point in their lives , in thought if not in deed . |
| 28 | Yes we get a lot of people who do n't turn up at least a a phone call is er |
| 29 | To provide an illustration , a child who gets into trouble is much more likely to come before a court if he or she is from a poor home and has parents who do not get on with the welfare authorities or the police , than if his or her family is prosperous , respectable and willing to co-operate with the police and social services . |
| 30 | The shortcomings of organized religions in having within their ranks and amongst their leadership large numbers who do not live up to their beliefs have had a serious effect on attitudes towards religion . |