Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has a very pleasant , extremely distinctive aroma which experienced vignerons in the Aube claim can be detected in a cuvée , despite the fact that its presence can only be , at the very most , a few percent of the overall blend . |
| 2 | Here Esso petrol stations gave motorists buying their petrol , coins of little intrinsic value which depicted members of the England 1970 World Cup Squad . |
| 3 | I am glad to learn of an initiative recently taken by the North West Region of the RIBA , which invited officers of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Order of Architects to visit it in Knutsford . |
| 4 | The trouble came at the end of a six-hour hearing at the Liverpool Magistrates ' Court yesterday which followed arrests in the Kirkdake area on Wednesday . |
| 5 | The French team was a scratch combination which included players from the Albion Cricket Club , a sporting club for expatriates living in Paris which still flourishes two years after its centenary . |
| 6 | The decision was confirmed on 16 October at an expanded meeting which included representatives from the Petrograd city committee and other regional bodies . |
| 7 | He was 82 and for months had received intensive medical care which included trips to the United States to consult experts about his wasting body . |
| 8 | And one of Arrow 's pilots , Jacobo Bolivar , was one of the three principals of Sur International , the company which flew weapons from the US to Iran for Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North in 1985 . |
| 9 | Together they looked at huge bound tomes which contained drawings by the Wardley ancestors on the Grand Tour — ‘ Great Uncle Charles , died of pneumonia in Genoa , ’ she snorted as she closed his sketchbook and picked up a folio of the architecture of Rome , Naples and the Campagna . |
| 10 | Although the inland wonders of the North American continent were well known to hunters and fishermen , it was the railroad which brought areas of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada within reach of people of more moderate means . |
| 11 | He acquired a stake in a small lighting business which bought candles from the Wandsworth factory . |
| 12 | In addition to illustrating the strength of feeling in Quebec in the aftermath of Meech Lake , the by-election also suggested that the new federal group was capable of eclipsing the Parti Québecois — which held seats in the Quebec Legislative Assembly — as the vehicle for resurgent Quebec separatism . |
| 13 | He then joined R. & W. Hawthorn & Co. of Newcastle , a firm which supplied locomotives to the Glasgow and South Western Railway , of which he became locomotive superintendent in 1853 . |