Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Folly felt almost embarrassed at herself for the ease with which she was finding these excuses — and for the fact that she seemed to have slipped into mental first-name terms with this man who was , after all , a stranger . |
| 2 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
| 3 | Subjects heard sentences from four different sets , in random order , and after a distractor task , were given a forced-choice recognition test in which they were given both sentences they had originally heard and new sentences which were constructed either by combining information from within a set , or combining information from different sets . |
| 4 | Reason told him that was all nonsense ; but reason was being steadily eroded by a terrible unnatural fear over which he was losing all control . |
| 5 | He became a liveryman of the Poulterers ' Company in 1767 , and in the same year was admitted into the Honourable Artillery Company , in which he was to achieve some eminence . |
| 6 | See Stewart v. Dunphy , 1980 S.L.T. ( Notes ) 93 in which it was decided such persons were guilty of an offence . |
| 7 | Nor does National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 in which it was held that payment of betting duty under a statutory provision thought by the plaintiffs to be applicable but later held by this House in a similar case to be inapplicable , was made under a mistake of law and not of fact and was therefore irrecoverable . |
| 8 | Ltd. v. The Irish Land Commission ( Case 182/83 ) [ 1984 ] E.C.R. 3677 , in which it was held that article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 9 | I do n't remember what I was reading that Friday evening . |
| 10 | Carolyn found everything about Bryony so alien that she could not begin to guess what she was doing that Bryony did n't like . |
| 11 | Couriers are regularly in and out of Felcourt and one guy from DHL , Pete , plucked up the courage to ask Clare what she was doing that weekend . |
| 12 | ‘ We need to check what he was doing those days , anyway — I did n't try too hard when we were last there , because I hoped the autopsy might give us something . |
| 13 | It was impossible to tell what he was doing this afternoon . |
| 14 | He knew what he was asking these people to do and he did not like it , but there was no other way . |