Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have recently [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote a short book entitled What Happened in Burma , described on the cover as ‘ the frank revelations of a young Burmese revolutionary leader who has recently escaped from Burma to India ’ . |
| 2 | The story is recounted by the unnamed founder of the Mnemosyne Institute in Philadelphia , an elderly widower who has recently retired after making his millions as instructor to ‘ executives , politicians and members of the defense establishment ’ . |
| 3 | Today , the Export team is made up of Jim Grandison , Export Sales Manager , who has prime responsibility for Eire , Scandinavian markets and the Middle East ; Fraser Gordon who has recently joined as European Sales Manager ; Alan Burnett , Export Admin . |
| 4 | The 22-year-old public relations officer , who has recently moved to Alton from London , was among seven contestants , twenty-year-old Kerry Campbell was the runner up and Vicky Wadhams , also 20 , a nanny from Selborne , was third . |
| 5 | Would it be enough , for example , that a person published material to a handful of his neighbours urging them to make life difficult for a black person who has recently moved into the neighbourhood ? |
| 6 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |
| 7 | Eleanor Driscoll , a working-class housewife who has recently moved from a two-room slum into a local authority house , puts it like this : |
| 8 | After tonight , the next stage of Rangers ' journey is the visit to Marseille on 7 April , which dispenses with any margin for error against a Brugge side Smith expects to be fortified by the return of the Hungarian sweeper , Laszlo Disztl , and Stephane van der Heyden , the young midfield player who has recently broken into Belgium 's national side . |
| 9 | I need to know where I can find a woman who has recently returned to her family after having run away with a man called Resenence Jeopardy . ’ |
| 10 | Robert Hanson , who has recently returned from working in Hong Kong , to join his father 's firm . |
| 11 | J.R. Chan , the Managing Director of Sakata UK , who has recently arrived from Japan , made a press statement in which he said : ‘ The introduction of an automated robot-operated assembly line will eliminate this fault and , meanwhile , we are considering a recall of all the new Glory models . |
| 12 | The line-up was impressive , featuring Pops Staples , literally the founding father of the gospel band the Staple Singers and who has recently embarked on a solo career at the tender age of 77 ! |
| 13 | CORNERSHOP , the Anglo-Asian band from Leicester who 've recently taken to burning Morrissey posters onstage and performing ironic covers of ‘ Bengali In Platforms ’ and ‘ Asian Rut ’ , play their debut London show at the Camden Falcon on October 17 . |
| 14 | She gave the name of her father , who had recently retired with a substantial pension from a very senior appointment with a multi-national corporation . |
| 15 | One evening Rachel invited her to dinner , to meet some old family friends who had recently retired from academia and moved to London . |
| 16 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 17 | The proposal came through Branson 's youngest sister , Vanessa , who had recently gone into business as an art-dealer . |
| 18 | The first , signed by the outgoing Sandinista government and contra leaders , had agreed that an " effective and definitive ceasefire " was to take immediate effect and that the estimated 10,000-12,000 contras who had recently flooded into Nicaragua were to enter five security zones supervised by the 700-strong force of the UN Observer Group of Central America ( ONUCA ) and the staff of the International Commission of Support and Verification ( CIAV ) . |
| 19 | They were named as Col. Mangwane Khosana , Gqozo 's former right-hand man who had recently escaped from custody facing treason charges , and Lt.-Gen. |
| 20 | Indeed , as Barry Rubin has pointed out in his seminal history Paved with Good Intentions , " Tens of millions of Iranians , particularly those living in the rural villages and even the many peasants who had recently migrated to the cities , accepted these clerical proclamations as guides top proper behaviour towards their King . |
| 21 | Yet Grigori Medvedev , the chief engineer at Chernobyl in the 1970s , says in his recent book ( see page 125 ) that Soviet-made Geiger counters registered high levels of radiation on men who had not yet been into the zone , and nothing at all on those who had recently emerged from it . |
| 22 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |
| 23 | The catalyst which provoked that indignation was the appearance in their lives of a wealthy businessman , Peter Shand Kydd who had recently returned to Britain after selling a sheep farm in Australia . |
| 24 | However , by the middle of 1990 there were reports of fresh sentences being passed on various dissidents who had recently returned to Taiwan . |
| 25 | The kitchen was full of smoke , servants and Sara 's brothers , who had recently returned from a day 's hunting in the mountains and who were getting in everyone 's way by taking their boots off and leaving them to steam before the flames . |
| 26 | In 1961 an Institute of Latin America was established at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow , on the recommendation of Anastas Mikoian , who had recently returned from Cuba . |
| 27 | Legislative power was to be vested in a 50-member ( of which 25 would be elected ) High Council of the Republic , to include three former civilian presidents from the 1960s who had recently returned from exile — Hubert Maga , Justin Ahomadegbe and Emile Zinsou . |
| 28 | Khruschev sensed a chance to humiliate the young President , who had recently failed in an attempt to overthrow the left-wing government of Fidel Castro in the Caribbean island of Cuba . |
| 29 | Thereafter Anselm gave him such aid as he could against the despoilers of his see among the Norman barons who had recently penetrated into southern Wales as far as Pembroke . |
| 30 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or who who had recently had of a child . |