Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 2 | I had them to dinner at my principal residence , having prepared a tagine of lamb with apricots , which I teased with a husky Australian Shiraz from the Mudgee River . |
| 3 | We managed only one practice session , on a school playing field in St Thomas which we shared with a tense local football match . |
| 4 | Then we did things like ‘ Love You Till Tuesday ’ which we did with a huge orchestra , as I recall , which was done in another studio . |
| 5 | This attitude was by no means confined to educated sceptics ; it was probably even more marked among the urban proletariat , who had largely abandoned churchgoing and were alienated from the established Church , which they identified with a repressive economic and social system . |
| 6 | Simpson was to emerge as the leading architect of the city , which he stocked with a fine series of public buildings , distinguished not only by his skill in seizing town-planning initiatives but also by the splendour imparted by their finely jointed and polished granite masonry . |
| 7 | Just another bloody journalist , a dilettante with a ragbag mind , who thought that because he had a smattering of scientific language , which he produced with a glib assurance that made George want to choke him , he was qualified to question him , a serious scientist with an intellectual grasp that Gerrard could never understand , let alone achieve . |
| 8 | Langton realized her impatience and ushered them out of the office towards another door , which he opened with a heavy key he took from his pocket . |
| 9 | I noted a new aspect to Niki at the end of I975 , which he concluded with a fine victory at Watkins Glen . |
| 10 | The hotel has just completed its first year of operation , which it celebrated with a month-long daily cake-cutting ceremony . |
| 11 | The steel tape had to be cut with wire-cutters , then soldered , and then it had to be ‘ tempered ’ before it could run through the machine — which it did with a loud clang ! |
| 12 | The failure of the North-South Dialogue showed The South that The North — by which they meant the West — did have a coherent distinctiveness : power , financial , technological and military power which it protected with a specialized technological language unintelligible to anyone outside its closed circle except the Brown and Black Sahibs in The South who had been educated and trained in The North . |
| 13 | Robin Dawson turned to working with collage after becoming increasingly frustrated with feeling unable to say what he wanted with a single image . |
| 14 | Robin Dawson turned to working with collage after becoming increasingly frustrated with feeling unable to say what he wanted with a single image . |