Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She had tried everything , including osteopaths , chiropractors , physiotherapy , traction and , finally , pain-killers which she was taking four times a day , every day . |
2 | Folly felt almost embarrassed at herself for the ease with which she was finding these excuses — and for the fact that she seemed to have slipped into mental first-name terms with this man who was , after all , a stranger . |
3 | ‘ 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | My master listened to him half-heartedly , more engrossed in studying a piece of parchment on which he was writing cryptic notes in a cipher even I did not understand . |
6 | ‘ No , I 'm not , ’ he said , gazing up to the ceiling , to which he was sending little puffs of cigarette smoke . |
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 | I do n't remember what I was reading that Friday evening . |
9 | what the what the pay is now here is what I was earning three years to four years ago |
10 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
11 | That 's what I was doing last night . |
12 | Carolyn found everything about Bryony so alien that she could not begin to guess what she was doing that Bryony did n't like . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | She had known what she was doing last night . |
15 | Encouraged , he said : ‘ Well , you remember what we were saying last night , about Scott Fitzgerald … ’ |
16 | Guess what we were doing last night . |
17 | ‘ We need to check what he was doing those days , anyway — I did n't try too hard when we were last there , because I hoped the autopsy might give us something . |
18 | It was impossible to tell what he was doing this afternoon . |
19 | He knew what he was asking these people to do and he did not like it , but there was no other way . |
20 | What he was saying hurt Shiona more than she could ever have believed possible . |