Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] they [verb] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the middle 1950 's most of my generation were settling down to carving out their careers and bringing up families after the unsettling effects of the war years during which they had experienced all they wanted of adventure and excitement . |
| 2 | This was to assume that the Danish people would change their minds of their own volition ; that they had been so overcome by the enormity of what they had done that they would hardly be able to wait to get back to the polling stations to put it all right . |
| 3 | What it did not say was the frequency with which they have chosen that condition . |
| 4 | Across the field the bloom of the cherry tree , under which they had sat that morning , hung sodden and spoiled . |
| 5 | In the past strategy was dictated by head office while divisions and international businesses were left to implement actions in which they had played little or no part in developing . |
| 6 | The investigators reported from a previous publication in which they had compared these thirteen subjects with twenty-nine borderline schizophrenics , thirty-four neurotics and twenty-three high-risk subjects with no mental illness . |
| 7 | And I am convinced — or rather , I have been convinced — that this felicity is due to the influence of the place in which they were born and in which they have lived all their lives … ’ |
| 8 | Increasingly it appears that the cabinet operates through a network of committees , the result being that ministers may be bound by decisions in which they have had little more than nominal participation . |
| 9 | Then he felt , vibrating along the ground , the steady tread of a man going away beyond the crest over which they had come that morning . |
| 10 | He leafed through the stack of notes that was the result of their questioning everyone in the area about what they had seen that morning . |