Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 2 | You erm , very accurately analysed what the problems where with Barbara , who did n't know her job , did n't know who her customers were etcetera , Bernard and Tony . |
| 3 | Lucy Jackson underlined what the NDO had said about using local press photographs and materials being ready before the event to ensure possible publication . |
| 4 | I never twigged what the gold rush was . |
| 5 | Both volumes of the Dictionary passed the censorship ( in 1845 and 1846 respectively ) , but Volume Two was proscribed a month after publication when the authorities grasped what the circle was up to . |
| 6 | I mean he grasped what the word , he grasped the way she taught him and he soon learnt to read and he could retain those words |
| 7 | At Cabinet on the Wednesday morning the Chancellor reported what the Foreign Secretary ( still confined to his house ) proposed to say . |
| 8 | So I looked through this device and er found what the reading it gave , so I went to my map and I found that that 's where Mars should have been . |
| 9 | Though deeply Anglo-Catholic he rejected what the world thought of as Anglo-Catholic fuss , a mistaking of the right vestment for the right religion . |
| 10 | She was so busy talking to another woman , who was weighing onions , that she never noticed what the wee fellow was doing . |
| 11 | We can imagine that , if we believed what the Calvinists believed , we would have behaved in the same way . |
| 12 | In the first place developing countries accepted the loans that were thrust at them because they believed what the West was telling them — that it would be possible for them to industrialize , to develop their economies to the point where paying back the loan later on would be an easy matter . |
| 13 | I suspect that he is doing so because he believed what the Home Secretary said when he intervened . |
| 14 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 15 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
| 16 | She estimated what the size of the labour force in the United States would have been in 1960 by making two assumptions : ( a ) if death rates had not declined since 1900 , the labour force would have been over 13 million less in 1960 ; ( b ) if death rates had declined from 1900–1920 but remained the same level after that , the labour force would have been 6 million smaller in 1960 . |
| 17 | ‘ Yet at the same time I imagined what the celebrations would be like at Molineux . |
| 18 | I noted what the hon. Gentleman said in his biblical reference ; it occurred to me that he should be a little more careful when talking about St. Paul . |
| 19 | Thus the BBC 's proposals for Broadcasting in the Seventies , for example , published in July 1969 as a kind of White Paper , provoked what the BBC called ‘ vehement debate ’ and the Annan Committee ‘ a public row of splendid proportions ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 12 ) , including debates in both houses of Parliament . |
| 20 | The committee carried out a range of fascinating research and confirmed what the public knew already , namely that the ham sandwiches available in motorway cafeterias had a tendency to be ‘ thin , tasteless ham in soggy bread ’ . |
| 21 | One glance confirmed what the noise had already told him . |
| 22 | Muller helped Natal beat Transvaal 14–13 in the Currie Cup final , and his display confirmed what the Springbok selectors suspected — they have a star on their hands . |
| 23 | Sharpe told Ziegler what he knew , which merely confirmed what the Prussian Captain had already discovered for himself . |
| 24 | His ear confirmed what the electronic bug had told him shortly before he had entered the suite , namely that there was no sound of movement from within the bedroom , or its adjacent bathroom . |
| 25 | It showed what the weather was and how they had started taking daily sunshine for granted that he had n't got any sort of jacket or sweater with him even though he expected to be away overnight . |
| 26 | By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like . |
| 27 | The loss should not fall on the totally innocent taxpayer whose only fault is that it paid what the legislature improperly said was due . |
| 28 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
| 29 | Mistaking articulacy for intelligence and plummy accent for acumen , the lawyers forgot what the public knows : that insincerity is what theytdo for a living . |
| 30 | and the , of course , you went onto to number one the man 's two er , group secretary who draws it out I forgot what the other one was . |