Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | D had the same complaint about C. B and C also admitted to finding it very difficult to manage their immediate subordinates , C and D respectively , who seemed to do better if treated as colleagues and left alone . |
2 | They took a chair which belonged to the eighteenth century English poet , Alexander Pope who 'd lived there while writing the first English translation of Homer 's Iliad . |
3 | He adds : ‘ People who get carried away when describing their wares can end up in the small claims court . ’ |
4 | Who had fought only when driven to it , and withdrawn as soon as he could . |
5 | There are those who spend their lives courting the unobtainable , pursuing impossible dreams ; and there are the Don Juans and femmes fatales who prefer to travel rather than to arrive , leaving behind them a path strewn with broken hearts . |
6 | Can this be the same tragic Lady Rothermere at whose inquest it was revealed had a stash of 2,000 pills lying round her French villa , who refused to travel abroad unless accompanied by massive quantities of prescribed drugs and who was so exhilarated by her fast-moving lifestyle she could only survive the small hours by swallowing incautious numbers of sleeping tablets ? |
7 | They may prefer to take action against their minority who refuse to share rather than continuing to fight such innocuous users of the countryside . |