Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura had agreed while casting a wry glance up at the roof , on which she had just spent many thousands of pounds . |
| 2 | A week after the case finished , Wilson received a letter from Branson saying that the contract which she had actually signed some three months before was now binding . |
| 3 | How could she separate the reality of John Latimer 's war from the thin gruel of romantic rubbish with which she had always associated these lighthearted , devil-may-care young pilots , with their positively foolhardy absence of nerves and their propensity for turning the Battle of Britain into something resembling a schoolboy jape ! |
| 4 | Danish cuisine was n't anything to which she had ever given much thought before but ‘ when in Denmark ’ … |
| 5 | There are many other examples of dissociation between base and inflection , and several other examples from Stemberger 's corpus which we quoted earlier illustrate this . |
| 6 | Water from the Arghuri brook , thought Miss Logan ; or perhaps that sourish milk which they had already received many times on their travels from obliging shepherds . |
| 7 | Therefore , in order to avoid panic attacks , they stop placing themselves in the situations in which they had previously experienced these feelings . |
| 8 | This practical middle aged surveyor with a wife and new baby left the relative security of surveying , at which he had already achieved some distinction ; turned his back on London and its opportunities , and took his chances as an artist in Ambleside . |
| 9 | He stayed a fortnight , and during that time dined memorably on honey pie , made an even more unfavourable impression at Marshmills , and no doubt spent long hours talking in Poole 's garden arbour , ‘ an Elysium ’ , as he called it , in which he had already recited many of his recent poems . |
| 10 | He had made the excuse that he needed to be there to greet the Prince of Wales , but making this pronouncement , which he had previously rehearsed many times , failed to fill him with the satisfaction he had anticipated . |
| 11 | Well , we really know whether you wanted us to put what we learned from the report what we 'd actually done that day as in just listing it as you said like a diary |
| 12 | It was obvious he did n't want to start up what he had decisively ended that night in her room at Rocamar . |