Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He whistled after her and shouted a coarse word , whilst Beatrice looked down at him , unshaven and dishevelled , and asked who the big Sicilian was ( an insult , of course to an Italian ) . |
| 2 | The 40-year-old told one of the sisters if anyone asked who the father of her baby daughter was she should lie and say it was her boyfriend , Leeds Crown Court was told . |
| 3 | I was just silently congratulating myself on tumbling her secret at last when I realized who the man in the photograph was . |
| 4 | This is the real reason I came , I half guessed who the Sons of Dives were . |
| 5 | ‘ And do n't try telling me that you 're his boss because that little toad , for a price , croaked who the complex does belong to and Enrique Armangual does n't spell Fernando Serra ! ’ |
| 6 | Candidates had to write down what they felt would most help them improve their lives and these suggestions were forwarded to the Prince in the diplomatic bag to wherever he happened to be in the world ; he then chose whom the money should go to . |
| 7 | He knew who the other boy was . |
| 8 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 9 | But we never knew who the other three were . ’ |
| 10 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 11 | That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet . |
| 12 | She took it for granted that each knew who the other was , and standing aside to motion him in she said : ‘ It 's good of you to be so accommodating , Mr Dalgliesh . |
| 13 | The participating banks each knew who the other participants were , but the figures in the report were presented so that readers could not work out which figures came from which bank . |
| 14 | In the far realms and colonies no-one knew who the true king was . |
| 15 | Fight fans knew who the champions were ; the prize was worth having . |
| 16 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 17 | And in that moment , Joseph suddenly knew who the three men were ; only Katherine Lundy 's men would be enquiring after Patrick . |
| 18 | Murder : he remembered the first chilling thrill of the word in the school playground , when it was still something to be excited about and before he knew who the victim was , or the chief suspect . |
| 19 | Hence I never knew who the culprit was and was never put into possession of the document or documents which existed and which would certainly have identified that person , since each copy of the minutes had , on my advice , been numbered . |
| 20 | He asked whether anyone knew who the woman was . |
| 21 | She knew who the man on the boat with Sabine Jourdain was . |
| 22 | I knew who the murderer was , but I could not tell anyone . |
| 23 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 24 | He thought he knew who the tall young man might be . |
| 25 | Well if I knew who the hell Dawn 's brother was ! |
| 26 | He looks like and I , first of all when we saw him I thought who the hell is that , ca n't be a father cos look at him , he looks terrible . |
| 27 | I remember him waving to me one day , I thought who the bloody hell 's that ? |
| 28 | I thought who the hell 's that |
| 29 | On April 30 some 2,400 police stormed the headquarters of the government-owned Korean Broadcasting System ( KBS ) to end a 19-day strike and occupation by employees protesting over the appointment as KBS president of Suh Ki Won whom the workforce accused of being too pro-government and anti-democratic . |
| 30 | Last week , we considered who the real clients for nursing services might be , and how variations in who we see as our clients may determine the type of care we give . |