Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take the statement that he wanted to see the German play of which he had heard some praise , and consider substituting the co-referring description " the Left-wing play whose inept performance will make him wish he had stayed at home " . |
| 2 | When she returned to Jedburgh that evening she was in great pain from what is likely to have been a haemorrhage , of which she had suffered several since her son 's birth . |
| 3 | Mr Lawrence said : ‘ An awful lot of what we had felt all along was vindicated by the research . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Another officer concluded his own harrowing account of what he had seen that day : The whole affair and its conduct was the most brutal and disgusting I have ever witnessed . |