Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central position which the Communists occupied in these campaigns was a result of their international connections , which made them appear as the principal opponents of Fascism . |
| 2 | But not dropped , ’ he added with a grin which made him look like the prototype jovial monk . |
| 3 | In those dark days I was that uncomfortable mixture of martyr and guilty inadequate , which made me alternate between the guilt of holding people back and the fury that they did n't offer to stop without being asked . |
| 4 | They took comfort from its changing face , which made it seem like the heart-throb of the area . |
| 5 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |
| 6 | Berger 's race was ruined by electrically-related gearbox problems , which caused him to start from the pit lane , and then a resultant overheating engine , which caused his retirement after four laps . |
| 7 | But because these interests in land were protected by personal and not by the real actions , they developed a set of legal characteristics which caused them to differ from the interests classed as real property . |
| 8 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |
| 9 | Now she had developed a self-assurance and experience which allowed her to perform on the public stage . |
| 10 | Guiding his entire policy was a sense of perspective , which allowed him to look beyond the immediate impasse and to visualize a future beyond Algeria . |
| 11 | An elaborate version of pass the parcel , which allowed me to travel around the southern part of the state doing workshops in a variety of places . |
| 12 | We could have catered for ourselves , but preferred the no-hassle option of half board which allowed us to indulge in the superb hot and cold buffet dinner provided with free wine . |
| 13 | The nuns led them through a series of exercises which encouraged them to think about the good in themselves , and to know that God , in His love for them , has forgiven their sins . |
| 14 | According to the historian Eusebius , when the Emperor Constantine ( c. 280 – 337 ) became a Christian in the early fourth century , his triumph over the enemies of the Church , represented as a dragon , was depicted in a scene at the entrance to the imperial palace which showed him trampling upon the beast . |
| 15 | His body clock free-ran so that on occasions he was the victim of a clash between an internal cause — which thought it was night and wanted him to sleep — and an external cause , society — which required him to work in the ( real ) daytime . |
| 16 | Well educated in Latin , French , German , Flemish , Spanish and Italian as well as in the Gaelic which enabled him to talk to the most suspicious and recalcitrant Highlanders , he gathered about him scholars and artists to add distinction to what soon became not merely the constitutional but also the cultural capital of the north . |
| 17 | It would appear from paragraph ( a ) that a seller who has a monopoly over the supply of the kind of goods in question is unlikely to convince the court of the reasonableness of a wide exemption clause , especially if it was a large demand for the product which enabled him to insist on the clause being in the contract . |
| 18 | It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education . |
| 19 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 20 | Theda murmured , unable to help admiring Rose 's social address , which enabled her to gloss over the incident so easily . |
| 21 | It was that independence which enabled us to participate in the Gulf war and to initiate the Falklands conflict without having to secure the agreement of our 11 Community colleagues . |
| 22 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 23 | She dealt with them , then attended to various other tasks which kept her occupied for the remainder of the afternoon . |
| 24 | Addled by the speed of events which sent him scurrying from The Hague , the erstwhile British ambassador , Sir Neville Bland warned that : |
| 25 | Tamar gave it a flick , which sent it swirling across the room . |
| 26 | Later this evening , about 11 p.m. , the Germans mounted a bombardment of our positions which convinced us sheltering in the slit trenches that the enemy were still in front of us in strength and were telling us that they intended to stay there . |
| 27 | To all complaints about his conduct he made the same answer : he was bound by the decree of 1099 , which obliged him to withdraw from the communion of all who had taken part in ceremonies of investiture or homage . |
| 28 | Stephen Dent has been in a wheel chair since an accident seven years ago , which left him paralysed from the waist down . |
| 29 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 30 | I do n't know what made me look in the bag , but it were n't . |