Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | A defendant who relies on this ground would be wise to file an affidavit in answer to the plaintiff 's affidavit and not leave all the argument to the application itself . |
| 3 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 4 | A telephone call to London found an agent who specialised in such transactions , and an appointment was made . |
| 5 | He thought that any Special Agent who dressed like this guy would be disciplined . |
| 6 | Perchance I was speaking by telephone this afternoon to a building contractor who specialises in this type of work . |
| 7 | In a report published on Aug. 5 the human rights group Amnesty International ( AI ) cited a witness who spoke of mass executions and human rights abuses in the inter-clan conflicts of recent months , and said that this report was consistent with others received by AI . |
| 8 | The provision of bed covers , curtains , pelmets , chair covers and furniture were all co-ordinated by the contracts department who liaised with other manufacturers . |
| 9 | The dead King had been a lecher who lusted after other men 's wives , daughters , sisters , like a dog on heat . |
| 10 | When it comes to financial planning , women often have different requirements to men , so it can help to see an independent financial adviser who specialises in this area . |
| 11 | Luton 's Paul Telfer has already told Brown of a team-mate who comes into that category and the manager admits that exercising the latitude recently agreed by the SFA is necessary because it is a formidable task to replace six players in that age group . |
| 12 | Then there 's Richard Harris as the flamboyant and lethally elegant English Bob , a hired hit-man who arrives in Big Whiskey with his own biographer . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The aims of this study were : ( a ) to explore the distinguishing clinical characteristics between the patients with three types of amyloidosis who presented with clinical signs of intestinal pseudo-obstruction , and ( b ) to examine the relations between the clinical features and pathological findings . |
| 15 | Between 1978 and 1992 , we saw 17 patients with amyloidosis who presented with clinical signs of intestinal obstruction . |
| 16 | Our findings reveal for the first time death rates of babies born before term who survive into late adult life , although duration of gestation was recorded for only half of the men . |
| 17 | It says it 's wrong that a judge should have to pass the same sentence on an abused wife who kills a brutal husband as it does on a robber armed with a shotgun who kills in cold blood . |
| 18 | Then there is that eminent retired Glasgow University Professor who drives over each year from Bridge of Weir with books for us . |
| 19 | Himmler called me to account about a professor who lectured on prehistoric times at Danzig and Königsberg . |
| 20 | It was now known that the body of the Professor who specialised in nuclear physics had been claimed by the Iraqi Embassy in Rome . |
| 21 | We expect the law to be enforced , we expect it to be held because every citizen who lives under that law may change it . |
| 22 | One vice-president is accountable for several strategic business units , each with a president who works with critical tasks of up to 7 years ' duration . |
| 23 | From the disco veteran who speaks with fundamentalist passion about the centred sense of self-belief and release while dancing to Diana Ross ‘ Love Hangover ’ , to the fabric of self-realisation portrayed in Saturday Night Fever , disco has always functioned as an entrée to ecstasy ( with a small e ) and identity . |
| 24 | She is a classic instance of a social doctrinaire who believes beyond all argument that socialist doctrine is the panacea for all human ills . |
| 25 | Over the hols I learned a gossipy thing or two from my brother in law who deals with some Leeds United staff in the course of his work at a certain Leeds City Centre bank ( not saying which one but it 's not hard to guess ) . |
| 26 | Remember that fellow at work who walked into that gallery and just put it under his coat ? |
| 27 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | motorist admits to not seeing boy who came from opposite pavement but accepted that motorist had only limited opportunity for seeing him . |
| 30 | A 3 year old boy who presented with swollen gums and a persistent abnormality on his chest x ray is reported . |