Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider , for instance , how Rupert Croft-Cooke , out to discredit Gide 's account of Wilde 's seduction of him ( Gide ) into a confirmed homosexuality ( above , Chapter 1 ) , writes of Gide that he ‘ picked up ( among others ) the Algerian boy prostitute Athman , who became known to other visiting Europeans , including Eugène Rouart and Francis Jammes and was brought to Paris by Henri Ghéon ’ . |
| 2 | Stirling and MacDermott were trapped in a cave and rounded up , thus ending the wartime career of the man who became known to the Germans as the ‘ Phantom Major ’ . |
| 3 | When she was not travelling round the world , Miss Hayes lived at Nyack or spent time with her adopted son , James , who became known to television viewers as detective Dan Williams on the series Hawaii Five-O . |
| 4 | The visitors would act as spokesmen and advisers for clergy who remain opposed to women priests and assist the archbishops in monitoring the arrangements made for them . |
| 5 | But I shall certainly be looking into the circumstances of the provider who has written to me . |
| 6 | Erm we are reassuring everyone who has written to us in the that all of the will be taking it fully into consideration when the money application is is considered . |
| 7 | Mr Harper , who has written to Durham County Council with the couple 's bid , said : ‘ I have known these people for seven years and they are superb to their residents . ’ |
| 8 | Ms Watson succeeds Toireasa McCann who has moved to Cork , Eire , to study traditional Gaelic music . |
| 9 | Simon Greenwood has been appointed chief editor at Quiller Press , succeeding Giles Mandelbrote , who has moved to the Historical Manuscripts Royal Commission |
| 10 | OUP has appointed Frank Slater , currently at Macmillan Press , UK trade sales manager to succeed Mike Ward , who has moved to OUP 's educational division . |
| 11 | He replaces Jean Puri , who has moved to Unilever 's Swedish cosmetic operation . |
| 12 | Is someone who has moved to Louisiana safe from the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke ? |
| 13 | And personnel secretary who has moved to Warwick . |
| 14 | Evert was supposed to struggle against the hard-hitting Jana Novotna , who has risen to 12th in the world rankings . |
| 15 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 16 | It also means that enquiries like , " Who has applied to us as a project engineer over the last year , and been rejected as not sufficiently experienced ? " can be answered with ease . |
| 17 | No particular accent is asked for , but Mike is not the conventional public school type who has gone to Cambridge . |
| 18 | Such technical recommendations are of little practical value and sometimes provoke vigorous protest from professional aviation people , but from the patient painstaking AIB inspector who has gone to great lengths to provide the sheriff 's court with as much guidance , information and advice as he can , there will be little more than a wry smile or shrug of the shoulders . |
| 19 | As the American Protestant layman Thomas Howard has said ‘ Jews and Christians worship the God who has gone to vast and prolonged pains to disclose himself to U8 as he not she , as King and not Queen , and for Christians as Father not Mother , and who sent his Son not his daughter in his final unveiling of himself for our eyes . |
| 20 | Through the preparation of his body for burial , the deceased had undergone s'akhu or glorification and was described as " one who has gone to his Akh " . |
| 21 | The deceased then became " he who has gone to his Ka " , which in Ptolemaic times were applied to the god and the king and which wee enumerated as strength , might , prosperity , food , veneration , eternity , radiance , glory , fame , magic , authority , sight , hearing , and perception . |
| 22 | One of these was for a doctor who has gone to the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 23 | I wish to present a petition on behalf of Mrs. Janet Burke of 59 Fairfield road , Scunthorpe , who has gone to considerable trouble to collect signatures protesting against any attempt to reintroduce the export of live horses for slaughter . |
| 24 | Pat Keen , who has gone to Cornwall will be greatly missed as a teacher . |
| 25 | Some will follow the example of Arthur C. Clarke , who has retired to Sri Lanka , because he says he can work better there , can enjoy the environment and is just as close to his numerous correspondents as if he were in America . |
| 26 | The Author of the poem and the Wanderer have gone to visit The Solitary , who has retired to a remote region usually identified with Blea Tarn , at the head of Langdale . |
| 27 | Even Alan Hansen , who has retired to the TV studios , is a 10-1 shot . |
| 28 | A man may believe that a woman who has consented to him before or consented frequently to others will consent again and that her ‘ no ’ is equally a sham . |
| 29 | Stockholm-based DJ Dr Alban — who has shot to No 4 with It 's My Life admits : ‘ I was drilling this guy 's tooth when all of a sudden blood started spurting everywhere . |
| 30 | The singer , who has shot to No. |