Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After what seemed its thirty-fifth repetition , Rowicki put down his baton , looked up and spoke to the ceiling in a low-pitched , conversational tone : ‘ Everyone can now play this correctly except Mr X ’ ( the fourth inside desk cellist ) . |
| 2 | After what happened there 's no reason why he should trust you , is there ? |
| 3 | What change of circumstances had come about which made them take an entirely different view ? |
| 4 | Because this conventionally liberal response to the prevailing mood disguises the fact that the them as which arranged themselves around the flogging solution reflected a much more mature retrenchment , and a much more solid base of opinion and material circumstance than is usefully summarised by the word ‘ panic ’ . |
| 5 | This was the highlight of a generally flat year for Olivetti , during which saw its market share rise to 6.1% from 5.8% . |
| 6 | It allowed , for instance , a little chat between Mrs Thatcher and a BBC reporter , the main purpose of which escaped me , unless it was to show that that lady can not be excluded from anything . |
| 7 | She had had to cut the number of servants employed and practice many other economies , none of which affected her personally . |
| 8 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 9 | As has been recorded in this chapter , the principal anti-cancer drugs have been discovered either as a by-product of military research financed by government or by research in the pharmaceutical industry , much of which had its roots in research not primarily concerned with cancer . |
| 10 | The company was organized in approximately ten areas of business , each of which had its own board of directors and its own CEO , but all of which were wholly owned by the parent company . |
| 11 | To arrive at this viewpoint Miliband argued that society was stratified by a number of elites — social , economy ( including managers and not just owners ) , bureaucratic and political — each of which had its own basis of power . |
| 12 | This meant that , instead of being composed entirely of separate infantry , cavalry , motorized , engineering , supplies and medical units , it also contained battalions each of which had its own infantry , cavalry , motorized , etc. sections . |
| 13 | The pigeons were then split into two groups , one of which had their bills smeared with olive oil and the other with turpentine . |
| 14 | It was the fact that the same individual could experiment with such a wide range of themes , subjects and styles that kept the spirit of invention alive , and encouraged some startling developments in film narrative , none of which had anything to do with theatrical forms of presentation . |
| 15 | This was appalling news for the British companies , none of which had anything like the clout necessary to claim membership of the MPPC . |
| 16 | The Tarn is home to many varieties of water fowl including the curlew , the greater crested grebe and the lesser spotted sandwich-pinching duck , one specimen of which had my last tuna-fish butty while I was n't looking . |
| 17 | She was a being apart from the visitors belonging to everybody else , and there were admiring stares and not a few tut-tuts of disapproval from some of the senile-decays for her vivid make-up and briskly clacking high heels , all of which sent my morale sky-rocketing . |
| 18 | The results from Wimpey Asphalt Hong Kong , Springfield Disposal and Overseas Contracting — all of which exceeded their budgets — served to give some respectability to the overall figures of Wimpey Minerals UK . |
| 19 | In pursuit of these aims the president and his staff proposed bold innovations in economic policy , the introduction of which became their first priority . |
| 20 | With the help of John , Malc and I auditioned several excellent musicians , none of which became one with me . |
| 21 | He also had a feeling for phrase and idiom and a very personal way with English , all of which endeared him to his audience . |
| 22 | Emboldened by such success , Christie 's felt able to organise an all-Cartier sale , held in Geneva in 1992 , the results of which justified their confidence . |
| 23 | She could hold her own in the bawdy jokes and the double entendres , many of which meant nothing to Anne , although she laughed when the other girls did . |
| 24 | Buzz spent the cab ride reminiscing about those times , some grim and some sad , but all of which made her smile . |
| 25 | As the rain gradually died away , birds began to fight and squabble like fractious children just allowed out after being cooped up indoors ; but then they did n't have leaky roofs ; neither did they have to climb up there as soon as it was light to inspect the damage ; or have a meeting with Leo , the thought of which made her feel weak inside . |
| 26 | The Hindus , he knew , at least refrained from eating pigs ( unlike the Chinese or the disgusting Christians of Byzantium ) , but he had heard that they had other habits the very thought of which made him swoon . |
| 27 | GRAHAM CHAPMAN and I wrote together almost full time between 1966 and 1973 , writes John Cleese , while producing sketches for The Frost Report , The 1948 Show and Monty Python , as well as several film scripts none of which made their way intact to the silver screen . |
| 28 | It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church . |
| 29 | He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential ! |
| 30 | All of which made it impossible to explain exactly why she 'd been so upset to find , after arriving , tired and exhausted , at the large house in Lowndes Square , that she was going to see even less of Ross than she had in New York ? |