Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |
2 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
3 | They fasted for a further 2 hours , after which they were allowed normal food and fluid intake . |
4 | He was energetic in the struggle for Solidarity and finished his parliamentary career as a Solidarity-sponsored senator ( for his native Silesia ) in the newly re-established Senate to which he was elected last summer . |
5 | The other occasion that we looked that , er a week or so back when he called down Zaccheus , from that tree in which he was hiding last week his judge , Pilate but of all of those interviews and th the many others that we have n't looked at , this surely must one of the strangest , as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need . |
6 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
7 | Reason told him that was all nonsense ; but reason was being steadily eroded by a terrible unnatural fear over which he was losing all control . |
8 | He became a liveryman of the Poulterers ' Company in 1767 , and in the same year was admitted into the Honourable Artillery Company , in which he was to achieve some eminence . |
9 | Nor does National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 in which it was held that payment of betting duty under a statutory provision thought by the plaintiffs to be applicable but later held by this House in a similar case to be inapplicable , was made under a mistake of law and not of fact and was therefore irrecoverable . |
10 | Ltd. v. The Irish Land Commission ( Case 182/83 ) [ 1984 ] E.C.R. 3677 , in which it was held that article 52 of the E.E.C . |
11 | That 's what I was quoted last week . |
12 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
13 | That 's what I was doing last night . |
14 | Couriers are regularly in and out of Felcourt and one guy from DHL , Pete , plucked up the courage to ask Clare what she was doing that weekend . |
15 | She had known what she was doing last night . |
16 | Which is what we were given last year . |
17 | Encouraged , he said : ‘ Well , you remember what we were saying last night , about Scott Fitzgerald … ’ |
18 | Guess what we were doing last night . |
19 | It was impossible to tell what he was doing this afternoon . |