Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The victim had 15 stab wounds , including one to his neck which came within half a millimetre of severing a major blood vessel . |
| 2 | Now you admit that all your fundamental objectives and ambitions which flowed from such a strategy are themselves unrealisable , certainly over the course of this parliament . |
| 3 | I was perking up under the influence of what seemed like half a ton of protein . |
| 4 | He had suddenly appeared through the trees and was thrusting what looked like half a chicken into my now outstretched hand . |
| 5 | They either assumed that what appeared in such a paper was nonsense or establishment propaganda , or they read such papers as the Manchester Guardian , as it was then called . |