Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him . |
| 2 | My father came from a peasant family in Berkshire , consisting of three sons and five daughters , all of whom entered some kind of domestic service , the women rising to responsible posts as head housemaids , housekeepers and parlourmaids . |
| 3 | Potential side effects were noted by 47 ( 2.2% ) patients , some of whom reported several symptoms concurrently . |
| 4 | Its opponents included 105 Republicans led by the House Minority Whip , Newt Gingrich , most of whom opposed any increases in taxation , while the Democrats opposed cuts in benefits and services . |
| 5 | Despite Knox 's fulminations against ‘ that cruel tyrant and unmerciful hypocrite ’ , the archbishop of St Andrews , and the ‘ woman born to dissemble and deceive ’ , Mary of Guise , it was in fact an act quite out of character of both archbishop and regent , neither of whom showed any taste for persecution . |
| 6 | Formal nursing courses reflect these concerns , but there is at present no mechanism for updating the knowledge of those who qualified some time ago . |
| 7 | They had a daughter , who married Wilfrid Scawen Blunt [ q.v. ] , and two sons who succeeded each other as Baron Wentworth and second and third Earl of Lovelace . |
| 8 | A nineteen-year-old Coventry woman who disowned any interest in feminism or politics — " I 'm just a fun girl , " — said she could never remember anybody talking about " the clitoris or orgasms ' . |
| 9 | Given the tension here was one of humiliation , that can be sufficient in itself to sustain the momentum , especially as this workhouse scene comes at a critical point in the sequence structure — for they have already in an earlier lesson experienced the well-intentioned caring of the ‘ lady ’ who housed these girls out of pity but was obliged to hand them over to the authorities . |
| 10 | A favourite character was the Rock King , who sold all kinds of rock and nougat . |
| 11 | I once went to a saddler in Bungay who sold these belts ready made up . |
| 12 | Paul Beniston , who obtained his BA in Music in 1987 , was one of the members of Royal Fort Brass , a brass quintet formed in 1985 , who entertained many audiences with their wide-ranging repertoire , both serious and humorous . |
| 13 | ‘ Every match I am playing better and better , ’ said Stich , who revealed that marriage to German actress Jessica Stockman nine months ago helped put his career back on track after he had slumped as low as 17 in the world last year . |
| 14 | Rothermere withdrew his press support and Conservative MPs , who revealed some interest in fascism , joined the clamour of condemnation . |
| 15 | The content of the output produced is the result of the skill and effort of the person using the computer and the skill and effort of the person who wrote the computer program and/or the person who produced any database used . |
| 16 | Of these the most important was Theodore Robinson , who did become a close friend of the painter , and who produced some paintings of the haystacks on which Monet was working at the time , which are almost indistinguishable from those of the master . |
| 17 | The group who produced this version attempted to create a balance between , on the one hand , the central action of the shooting , and , on the other , the more 'static " descriptions of the rain , the hospital and the courtyard . |
| 18 | He goes on , ‘ What I would like to know is just who produced this paper . |
| 19 | I think it 's fairly safe to assume — in fact , it would be criminally negligent not to assume — that the terrorists who planned those crimes are still in residence in London and New York , waiting . |
| 20 | It may have been the Marquess of Atholl who planned these works ; he had inherited the estates in 1670 . |
| 21 | I suspect that it is assumed by most people , including those who planned this course of lectures , that language is a means of communication — that this is what it is for ; and that since literature is made out of language , it too must be a kind of communication , as defined by , for instance , the Collins English Dictionary : ‘ the imparting or exchange of information , ideas , feelings ’ . |
| 22 | It was , in fact , the professional warrener , the man who became each estate 's killing machine , who perfected the various sporting methods that exist today and who honed them to their maximum effectiveness . |
| 23 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 24 | He replaces Andrew Harriman , of Harlequins , who became another flu victim . |
| 25 | He replaces Andrew Harriman , of Harlequins , who became another flu victim . |
| 26 | Finally , what , in retrospect , did the person who lived that life consider had happened during its course ? |
| 27 | They were in the custody of the court beadle who lived some distance away . |
| 28 | The guide would be particularly useful to people who lived some distance away and who needed to find out if a visit to the record office would be helpful . |
| 29 | ‘ Three days later my poor father went to visit an old friend who lived some miles away . |
| 30 | None of the old historians of this County take notice of this Chantry , not even Mr Lambarde , who lived some years in the Bishops ' Palace here . |