Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh pn] [vb past] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a sad thing to see someone who had an important job in the navy becoming such an irresponsible old soak . ’ |
| 2 | Yet if she had she would have imagined for him someone like Mrs Pascoe , someone who gave an instant impression of being a first-class housekeeper ( the house was immaculate , everything well chosen and highly polished ) and combined energetic work for her local community with a modest reticence about herself . |
| 3 | The seduction that had followed had been both a homage and a revenge ; an attempt to control someone who exercised an authority over him that defied analysis . |
| 4 | ‘ He was one who had an eye for such mysteries ? ’ |
| 5 | Well you were the one who had an omelette for your lunch . |
| 6 | ‘ I think , ’ Luke said deliberately , ‘ that you 're the one who made an issue out of it — by omission . ’ |
| 7 | Yet anyone who cocked an ear to their self-titled debut EP earlier this year will have been impressed by how un-English it was , both in its rough-hewn melancholic tangle — most obviously echoing both Buffalo Tom and the N-band , though not actually resembling either — and the absence of what has now become the standard English guitar-band attitude : jumped-up barrow boys jostling those same old post-punk moves , all looking out for the main chance and a quick route to the charts . |