Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ … preserve the memory and honour the example by charitable means of comrades or members of the Association who have died in our Service … ’ |
| 5 | Instead she gazed into the dully glowing ashes of the dying fire and remembered a wild , enchanted garden and a tender , handsome soldier who had awoken her to approaching womanhood with one gentle kiss and a rose . |
| 6 | ‘ Medoc comes from the most ancient line of necromancers , ’ said the soldier who had asked why Tara 's brightness had been quenched . |
| 7 | The prime candidate for the job was General Henri Giraud , a courageous soldier who had opposed the armistice in 1940 and had been imprisoned by the Germans before escaping early in 1942 . |
| 8 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Gordon Highlanders had already left , the airmen from the corner table had hoisted kitbags to shoulders and gone their separate ways , and the soldier who had spent the entire evening writing letters called a goodnight and walked out into the darkness . |
| 11 | Just a soldier who had got too big for his boots . |
| 12 | After thirty years , he could come face to face with the soldier who had spared his life . |
| 13 | He was thinking of a dark-haired and scarred soldier whom he had cuckolded and impoverished , a soldier who had sworn to kill him in revenge . |
| 14 | The likelihood of a hard-up , poorly-paid soldier who had left town for good ever returning to pay his debts was negligible . |
| 15 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 16 | Pity about Agnes Algar could have gone a long way in the Service but went charging off on some unauthorised stunt in America typically female in the end trying to save the career of some soldier who 'd got himself … |
| 17 | Old Shallot 's a brawling man : a born street fighter and a soldier who has seen more battles than many of you have had hot dinners . |
| 18 | These were the writers and newspapermen , paid hacks of the propaganda machine and tools of ‘ Anastasie ’ , the censor , who from their comfortable offices in Paris wrote of the nobility of war in the terms of Déroulède ; of the brave boys dying beautifully pour la Patrie ; who described the piling up of ‘ mounds of German dead ’ at each attack at Verdun , to the accompaniment of ‘ negligible ’ French losses ; and who published photographs of the grands mutilés with such captions as ‘ A Soldier Who Has Lost Both Feet , Yet Walks Fairly Well With Clever Substitutes , ’ or ‘ Who Has Lost Both Hands , Yet Can Handle a Cigarette and Salute as Before . ’ |
| 19 | The first half reflects on one incident : a soldier who has died or lost consciousness has been found by his friends and they try to awaken him , finding out if he is dead . |
| 20 | ‘ War starts at midnight ’ screams the bald-headed general when his steam bath is interrupted by a plucky Home Guard soldier who has launched a premature start to a military exercise . |
| 21 | 16 patients with sarcoidosis who had undergone diagnostic biopsy of lung , skin , or lymph node and 16 patients with squamous cell carcinoma or Hodgkin 's disease to act as controls . |
| 22 | The church floor was swept and washed clean , thanks to Cecily the courtesan who had earned her pennies honestly by scrubbing every inch . |
| 23 | Then I realized that the house did not belong to a human , but to the horse who had brought me here . |
| 24 | Now you know , Roger , how that would affect an excitable horse who has had little strenuous exercise ? |
| 25 | A horse who has had his problems , Royal Athlete was off for two seasons , but in 1990 he won over the Mildmay fences at Liverpool after having fallen when backed favourite at Cheltenham . |
| 26 | If he turned and looked at her , she might have to give a straight reply , but to his narrow back , which could have been the back of a much younger man , she began to tease , in the way that she had learned so many of her new friends liked , when they made similar inquiries too , like the painter who 'd lain on her bed and asked her earnestly if she 'd ever experienced simultaneous orgasm , or the musician who 'd volunteered he 'd show her a ‘ perversion ’ he was sure nobody would have demonstrated to her before , and began nuzzling between her legs . |
| 27 | Susanna Rance meets a musician who has discovered the musical weight in traditional bamboo pipes . |
| 28 | Today he is an accomplished musician who has won awards for piano playing . |
| 29 | We bring the Guinness Spot to a close with a local musician who has had a long and distinguished career in the country and blues divisions of rock . |
| 30 | It seems reasonable to ask , though , why a side who had gone the previous 42 games undefeated , were allowed to spend such a relatively undemanding afternoon in the company of a team who ought to have harboured more serious intent than was ever evident . |