Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hoped that the involvement of neutral states like Austria , Sweden and Switzerland — all of whom obviously did not see membership as compromising their neutrality — would persuade the Soviet Union that the new association was sufficiently politically innocuous for Finland to be able to join it in the not too distant future . |
| 2 | And I know I mean er people who just went round jumble sales erm to try and get clothing for themselves |
| 3 | The nearest we get to non-text in actual life , leaving aside the works of those poets and prose writers who deliberately set out to create non-text , is probably in the speech of young children and in bad translations . |
| 4 | Lucy who possibly had n't given Jay a thought in four weeks ; she certainly had n't woken with Jay 's face in her mind , slept with a dream of Jay in her arms . |
| 5 | Yet there were others who clearly did not relish James 's rule , having actively opposed him when King , and who did their best to distance themselves from the Jacobite cause after the Revolution , Archbishop Sancroft being the most famous example . |
| 6 | Watched by the players from Holywood — who later went on to beat Annadale 6–2 to strengthen their title credentials — Garvey started tentatively , fell behind early on and were then left to chase it . |
| 7 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
| 8 | Subsequent debates have tended to favour the Hobbesian view , arguing for institutions of authority , and dismissing Rousseau as a romantic utopianist who simply did not accept people for what they ‘ really are ’ . |
| 9 | Across the road , two little girls who frequently came in to visit Isobel , eat toffees and gossip , were teetering uncertainly on the edge of the sidewalk . |
| 10 | The lecturer , Martin Wood , counts equally successful those students of the courses he has given since 1984 , at Leith 's School of Food and Wine in London , who subsequently decided not to open restaurants . |