Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she was allowed out of bed the nurses ( who presumably had not received the instruction ) no longer assisted in washing her and the patient said that she would be glad to get home so that her legs and feet could be washed . |
| 2 | Hilton was certainly conscious of writing for a wide monastic audience , but The Ladder is ostensibly written for a nun , who was enclosed in a convent and bound by traditional monastic disciplines , but who also seemed about to begin a more solitary life . |
| 3 | Coach Pierre Berbizier and assistant Christophe Mombet , who both flew over to follow the fortunes of the Springboks in South Africa , rejoined their players for a light training session and a day of fitness tests . |
| 4 | Final touches for a midnight special performance by make-up lady Barbara Daley — the lady who later went on to do the make-up for Lady Diana on her wedding day . |
| 5 | And the critic Richard Findlater , who later went on to become a dear friend , said , ‘ How dare the English equivalent of a national theatre employ a schoolgirl , whom none of us has heard of , and who ca n't do it ? ’ |
| 6 | Those who refused to give the figures ranged from tiny building societies , who simply did not have the technology to work out the sum , to large multi-national banks with copious staff and computers to hand . |
| 7 | They 'd always had the power to exhange fines for prison , and it was the police who simply did n't understand the law . |
| 8 | Martin Pipe suspects that the filly , who subsequently bounced back to land a novice hurdle at Taunton last week , was ‘ got at ’ probably with a fast-acting tranquiliser , administered at the racecourse and not at his Nicolashayne yard . |