Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The narrow straps seemed barely able to hold her full bosom , which threatened to spill out of the boned bodice with every movement she made . |
| 2 | Developments of this kind were obviously worrying to the Soviet leadership , which began to speak openly of the dangers of ‘ internal counter-revolution ’ . |
| 3 | Sticking with clothing , those hapless popsters OCEAN COLOUR SCENE are grieving over the loss of more than £2,000 worth of T-shirts which managed to fall out of the back of their van while they drove through the Moseley area of Birmingham last week . |
| 4 | The reason was that the company was privately owned by the Jacobs family , which preferred to stay out of the limelight , and just got on with running the business . |
| 5 | In Soho the Partisan coffee bar , founded by the New Left Review — which had grown out of the New Reasoner in 1960- was attracting a far more Bohemian and disreputable crowd than the straighter new leftists for which it had been intended . |
| 6 | The same thing with pre-West End shows — quite often , I mean for instance , there was a show at the Apollo about six months ago which was Lettuce and Lovage , er which had come out of the West End and was doing a big tour . |