Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave Berrow , who has had committments to his Browing Starlets side which has cost him the chance to fish some possible points earning events , admits that the draw bag has n't been kind to him for quite a while . |
| 2 | An authoritarian stance is taken to be evidence of the younger staffs lack of experience of the harsh realities of industrial and agricultural life which has denied them the appreciation of the ‘ insider ’ . |
| 3 | It is a handsome plant , one of the tallest of the umbelliferous herbs , with a strong distinctive , celery-like flavour which has earned it the name of the " Maggi " herb in Italy . |
| 4 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 5 | I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations . |
| 6 | Mrs Grandison , the mother of Sophia and Penelope , had the remains of her daughters ' Pre-Raphaelite beauty , now much faded and overlaid with some other quality , which had made her the President of the Women 's Institute in the village where she lived but which did not seem to be quite Pre-Raphaelite . |
| 7 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 8 | Jean 's precocious bubble of confidence , which had earned her the attention of her parents , was replaced by a sense of guilt about what had happened which lasted into later life . |
| 9 | It was dedication of that order which had won her the reputation of one of the finest young actresses around . |
| 10 | Other performances the schools selectors will have noted include the 300m hurdles sub-46 seconds runs of Joanna Mahony ( Wirral ) which have won her the Meseyside under-17 title and a silver at the Northern . |
| 11 | He did not know what had possessed him the night before , yet , gradually , the sweetness she gave him began to dissolve his confusion ; his vivid spurt of pleasure returned to him and he looked across at her and asked , ‘ Will you be coming to the passeggiata next Saturday ? ’ |