Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was listening to Dinah Asshe , who was addressing him with laughter in her voice ; the voice that had charmed half London . |
| 2 | This can happen if , for example , the sub-purchaser bought the goods from someone who was hiring them on hire purchase terms . |
| 3 | She had told him she was promised that evening to Charles Harvey , who was taking her to Jeffrey Archer 's party . |
| 4 | Normally , Pooley was concerned to hide his upper-class origins from the general public as well as from his police confrères , but occasionally Eton came in useful when he wanted to discomfit a member of the public who was treating him like PC Plod . |
| 5 | It had suddenly borne in upon her that it was almost midnight and that she was in a strange flat in a strange city , with a strange man who was plying her with champagne . |