Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |
| 2 | She had tried everything , including osteopaths , chiropractors , physiotherapy , traction and , finally , pain-killers which she was taking four times a day , every day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was energetic in the struggle for Solidarity and finished his parliamentary career as a Solidarity-sponsored senator ( for his native Silesia ) in the newly re-established Senate to which he was elected last summer . |
| 5 | The other occasion that we looked that , er a week or so back when he called down Zaccheus , from that tree in which he was hiding last week his judge , Pilate but of all of those interviews and th the many others that we have n't looked at , this surely must one of the strangest , as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need . |
| 6 | My master listened to him half-heartedly , more engrossed in studying a piece of parchment on which he was writing cryptic notes in a cipher even I did not understand . |
| 7 | His interest in tidal rivers began with work on the River Boyne and culminated in 1839 with re-employment in his native country as engineer to the Clyde River Trust , a post from which he was dismissed six years later after criticizing the trustees in a Glasgow newspaper . |
| 8 | ‘ No , I 'm not , ’ he said , gazing up to the ceiling , to which he was sending little puffs of cigarette smoke . |
| 9 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
| 10 | The Duke of Edinburgh was the guest of honour at the ceremony , at which he was presented three jars of cherries from the orchard . |
| 11 | Bob , son of the designer of the Norseman , worked with his father one summer flight testing Norseman aircraft , for which he was paid 40 cents an hour , later rising to 52 cents an hour ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | See Stewart v. Dunphy , 1980 S.L.T. ( Notes ) 93 in which it was decided such persons were guilty of an offence . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I do n't remember what I was reading that Friday evening . |
| 18 | what the what the pay is now here is what I was earning three years to four years ago |
| 19 | That 's what I was quoted last week . |
| 20 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
| 21 | That 's what I was doing last night . |
| 22 | Carolyn found everything about Bryony so alien that she could not begin to guess what she was doing that Bryony did n't like . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She had known what she was doing last night . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | It was impossible to tell what he was doing this afternoon . |
| 27 | He knew what he was asking these people to do and he did not like it , but there was no other way . |
| 28 | What he was saying hurt Shiona more than she could ever have believed possible . |