Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the farmhouse door is a date stone , 1712 , referring to Roger and Isabella Taylor , who lived there at that time . |
| 2 | School was so long ago that we had passed into each others ' mythology , like people who met distantly in another country . |
| 3 | It was the sort of kiss you saw portrayed on the cinema screen , between two madly attracted people in mortal danger who fell dementedly upon each other as if there was no tomorrow … |
| 4 | The device could 've been planted as early as Saturday morning and police want to speak to anyone who went there from that time , to when the alarm was raised yesterday . |
| 5 | Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme . |
| 6 | Most importantly , they have demonstrated that the late medieval church was functioning effectively , and that historians have been misguided in relying too heavily on the testimony of condescending sixteenth-century intellectuals like Erasmus who were so hostile towards superstitious and non-biblical religion , while ignoring the perspective of the contemporary rural parishioners , who participated happily in this type of unsophisticated religious life and seemingly gained great spiritual comfort from the various rituals of the liturgical year . |