Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suddenly she was doubly shaken , and could only stare in astonishment at the tall , lean , aristocratic-looking man who had rounded that same corner in time to see all that had happened . |
| 2 | It was expected that Zuno would face a retrial , much to the embarrassment of the Mexican government as the case against him included witnesses who had alleged that senior government , military and police officers had been involved in the conspiracy to kill Camarena . |
| 3 | Pearson , who had suggested that proposed legislation on business licences was damaging to Australian interests and could affect the level of Australian aid to Vanuatu , was ordered to leave the country within 24 hours . |
| 4 | Roberts 's discovery was made in 1951 and gave a considerable boost to the research of Prof J Z Young , the celebrated brain expert , who had suggested that some kind of electronic machine might solve the cell counting problem . |
| 5 | If someone did n't own up to it , he 'd get all of them who had used that particular hut over the previous month , trying to find who had used that bandage and not reported it . |
| 6 | The Nassau agreement , however , did not silence those influential Americans who continued to believe that British policy and thus Anglo-American relations were in need of serious reappraisal . |
| 7 | Side by side with Voltaire and Kant , with their admiration of constructive and public-spirited autocrats , were others such as Helvétius , Holbach , Diderot and Rousseau , who refused to believe that this form of rule , however ‘ enlightened ’ , could do anything for the liberation of the individual subject . |