Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [Wh det] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reminding her that she would still be in full control at all times , I asked her whether it was not worth trying the technique to see what happened . |
| 2 | There was a profit of $2.1m in the Homeowners account which compared with a loss in the same period last year of $8.3m . |
| 3 | People were using any of a large range of software products to perform what appeared to be the same basic tasks . |
| 4 | As it happened , the Great War intervened and provided the Conservatives with an opportunity to confirm what had been an uncertain trend towards a reshaping and consolidation of the right . |
| 5 | Fearon glanced in that direction to see what had upset her , looked vaguely surprised , slapped half-heartedly at the mud with his hand and mumbled , ‘ It 'll brush off … ’ |
| 6 | The other side of the coin is the agonising trust in the dark , the utter obedience when all our inclinations go the other way , and the willingness to suffer which marked our Lord . |
| 7 | If there was some difficulty involved which resulted in your leaving a job , avoid referring to it , but do not resort to outright lying as this will rebound badly against you if you are found out . |
| 8 | This is in contrast to HWIM which designed individual interfaces for each of its components . |
| 9 | It revealed an inability to compromise which remained unaltered after the fall of the Government in August . |
| 10 | The distinction between a statute creating a public right and a statute prohibiting what had previously been lawful is not a satisfactory one as it does not appear to be based on any particular principle . |
| 11 | you see she did n't give it till the spring to see what came up , I mean she had it all paved which was silly because they , there were a load of rose bushes and that |
| 12 | The National Audit Office in its oversight of the work of the Inland Revenue revealed what triggered the probe into suspected widespread tax evasion by farmers . |
| 13 | It may also have been the political considerations involved which led both the WJEC and the University of Wales to remain silent throughout the argument . |
| 14 | Certainly one 's initial impression is of a building with a haphazard history , in which functions and spaces have been added and transformed , with little attempt to hide what went before . |
| 15 | A spokeswoman said an investigation would be carried out in a bid to establish what had happened . |
| 16 | A witness described what happened in Bulohawo , a town on the Somali-Kenyan border : |
| 17 | Do not the Opposition remember what happened in Scotland when properties there were revalued ? |
| 18 | It was typical of his thorough approach that after Arsenal won 7–1 at Wolverhampton , he spent nearly two hours at the team talk analysing what led up to Wolves ’ one goal , much to the dismay of the players , who expected only a brief meeting after such a handsome win . |
| 19 | It held together with the engine , the rest of the fuselage separating which took him out of the major part of the fire . |
| 20 | A DARLINGTON man was yesterday recovering in hospital after a Good Friday attack which left him with broken bones in his face . |
| 21 | When he lectured he never made the slightest attempt to underline what had been his own ( considerable ) contributions to the subject . |
| 22 | Not given to making the headlines , it has recently attracted attention with the launch of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture known to the Renaissance on a computerised database , with Getty support , and an old debate stirred up by an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung which criticised London University 's custodianship of the library and called for its return to Hamburg . |
| 23 | Rostov was surprised that the question had not been asked earlier , and guessed that a code of manners existed which governed the kind of questions which could be asked . |
| 24 | There , walking down the middle of the shed in the gloom , I espied a dark blue-clad figure wearing what appeared to be what Dad used to call a ‘ steamraiser , , a shiny topped peaked cap . |
| 25 | The rules and routines of the institution made her feel secure and offered her plentiful opportunities to do what gave her the most satisfaction , to comply . |
| 26 | ‘ You know we are Jews and Jews remember what happened 50 years ago and during this time nobody in the world was doing anything to save the Jews , ’ Kahn told reporters at Zagreb 's Pleso airport . |
| 27 | The bills , which included measures to restructure the country 's military leadership and reorganize the broadcasting media , had been delayed by opposition filibustering which had led to outbreaks of fighting in the Assembly as a result of which two members were hospitalized . |
| 28 | First , there were the Camp David accords which promised an autonomy they neither wanted nor received . |
| 29 | Never again was there to be a nation-wide intervention by the railway-workers , although those social tension persisted which had helped the bolsheviks to divide and rule in 1912 . |
| 30 | However , the ‘ progressive ’ employers who developed this form of occupational welfare , mainly after World War I ( Jones , 1983 ) , typically operated a ‘ marriage bar ’ and the ‘ women 's pension scheme ’ doubled as a savings scheme which produced marriage gratuities . |