Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb past] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • These days she 's pretty much engaged in an acting career , although she did turn up in John Waters ' Hairspray in 1988 to render Barbara Lynn Ozen 's title song , which duly appeared on the soundtrack album . |
| 2 | The old divorce laws which once sat on the statute books were viewed with contempt even by many of those who made their living from them . |
| 3 | This is the Drowned Forest , which once stood on the land , before the sea came in over it . |
| 4 | The bogus golfers had placed a triangular support under the open end of the decapitated golf-bag and had hammered a notched support into the grout at its base , which still rested on the trolley . |
| 5 | Cardiff could see that he had attached a microphone of some kind to the metal container which still rested on the chair and which had been giving the so-called mysterious ‘ readings ’ . |
| 6 | His father was running a small lock-shop in Bolton Gedge worked in the room above writing songs , many of which later appeared on the début album . |
| 7 | That was the situation before the election of Mrs Thatcher 's first government in 1979 , which openly campaigned on the need to make society more unequal . |
| 8 | Originally issued in 1979 , the B-side is a previously unreleased version of ‘ Read it in Books ’ , the song co-written by Julian Cope and Ian McCulloch , which originally appeared on the flipside of the 45 . |
| 9 | Hannele had given Edward a sheet of paper with names and numbers on it , which now lay on the desk . |
| 10 | She did not have sufficient strength to take stance on the gaunt bare branch above her head nor had she touched the remnant of meat that had been left the day before as her food and which now lay on the ground at her side . |
| 11 | Supporters of détente in the 1970s could argue that personal contacts , trade and the Helsinki agreements had undermined the Soviet hold on the East , but opponents of détente could counter that Reagan 's Cold War policies had helped to put unbearable strains on the Soviet economy , which now seemed on the verge of collapse . |
| 12 | What its function was and what relationship it bore to the building-complex which then stood on the site of the later temple has yet to be established . |
| 13 | The non-observance of this particular text ( which officially remained on the statute book until January 1987 ) , came to symbolize the weakness and the politization of communications policies . |
| 14 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 15 | Nothing in my biologist 's intuition , nothing in my 20 years " experience of programming computers , and nothing in my wildest dreams , prepared me for what actually emerged on the screen . |