Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some speakers urged everyone who agreed with some proposition to show their hand , at no time was a vote taken : the chairman summed up the sense of the meeting after each item , announcing what he thought Kufra 's delegates were mandated to say at the National Assembly . |
| 2 | She had been born in India , where her father was stationed with the Air Force , but after her parents separated she was brought up by her mother , who lived with another woman in Northampton . |
| 3 | Another risk is that when information is filed under address a consumer may be refused credit not because of his own record but because the record of some other person who lived at that address . |
| 4 | At Key Stage 2 , with older pupils , the enquiry can easily be pushed back to the Victorian Age , when pupils are now faced with the " problem " that all the people who lived at that time are now dead . |
| 5 | Anybody who lived through that time in Oswaldston will have a lot of memories of it-some of them bitter , some of them funny . |
| 6 | The death threats had been provoked by Motoshima 's suggestion in December 1988 that Emperor Hirohito ( who was at the time dying of cancer ) bore some responsibility , " as do all of us who lived in that period " , for Japan 's role in the Pacific War of 1941-45 . |
| 7 | The Council 's rehoused everyone who lived in that street . ’ |
| 8 | The dust burned ; as did any populace who lived in that plate , supposing they had survived the plunge of their factory-homes . |
| 9 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 10 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 11 | who lived in these house plus I should think about |
| 12 | I thank those who fought for that gift and who built the lasting institutions of NATO and the European Community from the ruins of 1945 . |
| 13 | to distrain by their lands and chattels all those who shared in that liberty , and have lands within the bounds of the disafforested districts , to contribute towards the payment of the 200 marks to the King , in proportion to the lands they had in the said district , and the advantage they gained from the disafforestment . |
| 14 | For this time there were others who shared in that dream , at least to the extent of wanting friendship between England and Scotland . |
| 15 | Superior qualifications were , indeed , by no means a guarantee of preferment , on the testimony of David Scott himself , who admitted on another occasion that ‘ there was some altercation about the superior qualifications of the other candidates , but on my shewing the chairman the anxiety I had to provide for your friend , with his assistance I carried it ’ . |
| 16 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 17 | The safeguards here may be very good , but they may not be so well understood by a police officer in another country who read about that suspicion . |
| 18 | A monarch who behaved in this way could rely on the support of many of the leading intellectuals of the age , however despotic his power . |
| 19 | First of all THANK YOU to everyone who helped in any way with the sale . |
| 20 | The Society would like to thank all who helped in any way with the Stand and in particular Mr and Mrs J. Lawley for being custodians of Material on site . |
| 21 | Many thanks to the visiting Speakers and all who helped in any way . |
| 22 | As the notice on the board outside the Church says ‘ warm thanks to all who gave , all who came , all who helped in any way ’ . |
| 23 | Our samples were no exception : Table 5.1 takes a loose definition of ‘ carer ’ and shows — for the three points in time — whether the dementia sufferer lived with someone who helped in some way to care for him or her , and if not , how frequently he or she was visited by someone on an informal caring basis . |
| 24 | Finally many thanks are due to everyone who contributed to this edition . |
| 25 | Finally very many thanks are again due to everyone who contributed to this edition . |
| 26 | We acknowledge the generous financial support of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths and the cooperation of the parents , health professionals , and interpreters who contributed towards this research . |
| 27 | Our thanks are also extended to the Police and Stewards on duty and to everyone who contributed in any way to the success of the evening . |
| 28 | The desire to shelter large sections of the population from military service also strengthened the willingness of most governments to employ foreign mercenaries , who retained throughout this period much of the importance they had possessed since the Renaissance . |
| 29 | From November , 1914 , Ruhleben ( racecourse stables outside Berlin ) housed for up to four years about 4000 Britons , who ranged from several honeymoon couples just arrived in Germany for their August holidays to dons and students on walking or reading parties , musicians and sportsmen snatched from festivals , and even a journalist with an ear supposedly close to the ground , Israel Cohen , a German correspondent for the London press who had cheerfully left on July 29 for his vacation near Dresden . |
| 30 | He also had the confidence of the new king , George V , and of his two private secretaries , Francis , first Viscount Knollys , and Sir Arthur Bigge ( later Baron Stamfordham ) [ qq.v. ] , who disagreed with each other on the constitutional issue . |