Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [vb pp] to [adj] " 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 | Nicola 's husband was after all , thought Dexter , the second suspect they had seen that day who had decided to dry-clean the clothes worn at the farewell party . |
| 3 | At this time , the Christian factions within the Caliphates ( ex-slaves and captives who had risen to high office under Al-Mansur ) requested help from the Court of Castile . |
| 4 | He was a much-decorated officer who had risen to high rank before an honourable retirement . |
| 5 | However , a spokeswoman for the RIR said these figures included some who had transferred to full-time duties . |
| 6 | It was in this region that James Wilson writing in 1967 , found evidence of a new conservative political culture amongst the children of those who had emigrated to southern California from small mainly midwestern towns . |
| 7 | Since , in 1849 , the British had encouraged Constantinople to reject Russian requests for the surrender of the Polish and Hungarian refugees who had fled to Ottoman territory after the failure of the Hungarian revolution , the Turks believed that Britain , as well as France , had their interests at heart . |
| 8 | Former Harrogate player David Casado , who had switched to full back to accommodate Johnson , was Northern 's most dangerous player , while Boro had the most effective forwards in prop Phil Wright and No 8 Tom McGrath . |
| 9 | It acknowledged the difficulties of the police in a terrorist campaign : complimented the RUC on its restraint and professional integrity and pointed out that the number of detectives who had resorted to physical violence appeared to be small in relation to the total force . |
| 10 | The secretary of the new NILP branch was Ivan Cooper , who had come to public attention the previous year when he resigned from the Bond 's Glen and Claudy Young Unionist Association and had stood as an Independent candidate for the Londonderry Rural District Council . |
| 11 | Oleg Kalugin , a former major-general in the KGB who had come to public prominence recently for alleging continuing KGB abuses of power , was elected to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies in a by-election in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar on Sept. 2 . |
| 12 | It is Protestant perceptions which explain their actions and those perceptions were amplifying the fundamental divisions between those unionists who remained committed to pragmatic reform , either because they believed in liberal unionism or because they believed that satisfying the Westminster government 's demands for reform was the only way to maintain Stormont , and the right-wingers who wanted to preserve traditional unionism . |
| 13 | This paper presents results for eighteen clients accepted on to the Special Development Team caseload , who were living in NHS mental handicap hospitals at the time of referral , eleven of whom had moved to staffed houses in the community . |