Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh det] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new trial was reopened before the Juzgado Quinto de Primera Instancia Penal de Sentencia ( Fifth Criminal Sentencing Court of the First Instance ) , and new evidence admitted which led to a guilty verdict . |
| 2 | Thus began what developed into a full Department of Ballet at the university , offering , from 1941 , a three-year certificate course for which pupils were required to attend lectures , read widely and study music appreciation as well as their dance classes . |
| 3 | When suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven , the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting . |
| 4 | He heard what sounded like a stifled cry of pain from a shriller voice ; then the commotion beside him resumed once more . |
| 5 | He hit what looked like a tremendous shot and the wind should have pushed it back left-to-right , but it did n't . |
| 6 | At least , one may take this assumption from the terms which the French emissary Paul Mus , after an arduous journey , presented to Ho in May 1947 and which required what amounted to a conditional surrender ; and in any case now that the Communist Party had been ousted from the French government there was no longer the same effective demand in France for a negotiated settlement . |
| 7 | Nobody knew what to say to a talking cat . |
| 8 | As she looked up she saw what looked like a loud speaker in one corner of the room . |
| 9 | When he saw Robert , he made what looked like a little , stunted bow and moved back towards the boys on the lawn . |
| 10 | Not only wrote it , but published it and made what seemed to a poorly-paid lecturer to be a very acceptable amount of money with it . |
| 11 | But , says Frank , ‘ a few weeks before I got to see a specialist I passed what looked like a bucket-full of blood into the toilet . |