Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who stabbed to death his lover 's ex-husband in a court waiting room has had his sentence halved . |
| 2 | BOGOTA ( Agencies ) — A leading member of the Medellin cocaine cartel who resorted to plastic surgery to avoid arrest has been captured and will face extradition to the United States , the Colombian authorities said yesterday . |
| 3 | SL2 , who got to No 2 with On A Raggatip ; and SUNSCREEM , who enjoyed a Top 30 hit last month with Love U More . |
| 4 | The scheme faced criticism from orthodox Liberals , who objected to compulsion , and from a variety of sources in the trade union movement . |
| 5 | I have never met anyone who objected to capitalism because it relied on the freedom of the individual to buy and sell , to produce and innovate , to save and invest . |
| 6 | The keynote speaker was Mr. Ian Lang , Scottish Education Minister , who used to occasion to highlight many of the current important issues in vocational education in Scotland . |
| 7 | Republicans who used to back it because the president liked it will no longer feel constrained to do so . |
| 8 | It was occupied by the Fry family — the eldest son was Sergeant Major of St. Martin 's Church Lads Brigade who used to camp out in bell tents at Shady Bower during the summer months . |
| 9 | Ultimately he hopes to return with his wife and infant son Jamie to Aberdeenshire where his father — who used to captain Cambridge at hockey — runs a small farm . |
| 10 | 25–11 Dr St. Clair , who used to practice in Islay before he went to Blackpool , was the guest of J. C. Graham at Lagavulin . |
| 11 | The journal quoted a Hong Kong-based Chinese Foreign Ministry official who referred to Article 55 of the Basic Law , Hong Kong 's post-1997 constitution approved in 1990 by the Chinese legislature [ see p. 37376 ] . |
| 12 | The 82 patients who contributed to analysis were distributed among the three treatment groups as follows : ursodeoxycholic acid , n=23 ; placebo , n=28 ; and diet , n=31 . |
| 13 | The traditional style of Roman portrait was revived at the court of the emperor Vespasian ( AD 69–79 ) , a man of modest Italian origin who rose to power through command of an army following a year of civil war . |
| 14 | Doonican , who rose to fame some 20 years ago with hits such as ‘ Elusive Butterfly ’ and ‘ Walk Tall ’ , suffered a drop in popularity when , at the height of what has become known as the ‘ swinging London ’ phenomenon , he revealed a fondness for rocking chairs and ‘ a cup of Typhoo ’ . |
| 15 | Doonican , who rose to fame some 20 years ago with hits such as ‘ Elusive Butterfly ’ and ‘ Walk Tall ’ , suffered a drop in popularity when , at the height of what has become known as the ‘ swinging London ’ phenomenon , he revealed a fondness for rocking chairs and ‘ a cup of Typhoo ’ . |
| 16 | One of the breed of Northern working class actors who rose to fame in the British cinema of the early Sixties , he has moved smoothly between film ( Annie , Shoot the Moon and Miller 's Crossing of late ) , both commercial and subsidised theatre , and even television ( in Kingsley Amis ' The Green Man ) . |
| 17 | I recently heard of a family who invited to church some friends who were staying with them for the weekend . |
| 18 | The passing parade of international players means that even with the loss of McGahan , North Harbour can still call on three international halfbacks : Strachan , Matthew Vaea and Tu Nu'auli'itia — the latter two Western Samoan World Cup halfbacks who moved to North Harbour clubs last winter . |
| 19 | And the 25-year-old defender , who moved to Boundary Park along with Neil Pointon in the deal that took Rick Holden to Maine Road admitted : ‘ I grew up with Manchester City but in the end I hated getting out of bed in the morning to go to work . ’ |
| 20 | It was n't just the old and the rich who moved to Moon Beach . |
| 21 | ‘ Strangely enough , ’ Ockleton had said , Harry having to strain to hear him amidst the noise and smoke as closing time drew near , ‘ Rex was the one who seemed to interest Heather the most . |
| 22 | Everybody who came to resistance after 18 June 1940 was , to some degree , forced to look up to de Gaulle . |
| 23 | These men rate themselves fitter than those who came to sex late and they 're less likely to consider themselves overweight . |
| 24 | Slim Gaillard 's Civilisation begins on 22 October on BBC 2 GIVEN the renewed popular interest in bebop , it might be supposed that drummer Max Roach , who came to prominence playing it , would take a pragmatic view of two movies which helped that resurgence : the Charlie Parker film Bird and Round Midnight , loosely based on the life of the pianist Bud Powell . |
| 25 | In all this , Liotta , who came to prominence in Field of Dreams and GoodFellas , plays the charming and concerned ‘ instant ’ buddy . |
| 26 | Ipswich did their homework by following the example of East Anglian neighbours Norwich , who came to Villa Park on Saturday and smothered the Villa pair into submission by employing a sweeper . |
| 27 | One of the few lawyers in modern times to have reached the Woolsack other than via membership of the House of Commons and ministerial office , Gardiner was a visionary who came to government late in his career , with the result that his idealism had not been exhausted by previous struggles to get things done . |
| 28 | Though the operation of the principles embodied in these generalizations is borne out by the vast majority of the careers of scholars listed in the biographical dictionaries who came to maturity after the beginning of the sixteenth century , both generalizations require some degree of qualification . |
| 29 | A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates . |
| 30 | Do you recall that nice Mr Spurgeon who came to dinner ? |