Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they were too well-known to need spelling out ; but it is just as likely that the personal qualities which contemporaries did stress were what really accounted for both men 's influence at the courts of successive Carolingians . |
| 2 | This emerges particularly in the verse paragraph in lines 77 – 89 of the Introduction , in which the Man of Law is made to note certain tales which Chaucer has not versified — Canace and Machaire , and Appollonius of Tyre — which Gower did include amongst the tales of his Confessio Amantis . |
| 3 | Additional priorities must be to encourage the players to express some individual flair and support those who are prepared to have a go rather than just retain possession which Scotland did achieve against Samoa for long enough . |
| 4 | ‘ But she had a certain something which men did find appealing . |
| 5 | One characteristic which London did share with the rest of the country was an increase in turnout : 48.2% of registered electors voted , compared with 45.4% in 1986 . |
| 6 | There was , however , a sense in which Gandhi did pose a personal challenge to the British , as distinct from the institutional challenge of organized mass disobedience for which he was responsible . |
| 7 | Watkins ' fear is that if UI extends the Unix RoadMap to include conformance with SVR4.2 — technology which UI helped conceive and encouraged USL to develop — SunSoft would have to implement a bunch of APIs which are inconsistent with its own operating system releases to maintain RoadMap conformance . |
| 8 | During the war the Cubist concept of the work of art as an autonomous , constructed object became more and more widespread and was to have a profound effect on the emergence of Purism , one of the pictorial styles to which Cubism helped give birth . |
| 9 | Fluid in the ears of children whose parents did not smoke was more than twice as likely to clear than fluid in the ears of those whose parents did smoke . |
| 10 | I still can not say whose bomb did turn the Tirpitz over , But this is all good for morale ; like the piece of the Tirpit : that I was able to secure for these two happy squadrons , encased in a large frame of good British oak , and displayed at Binbrook as a trophy of what Willie Tait and his gang of two — 617 and 9 , or 9 and 617 , the choice is yours — achieved . |
| 11 | I have had the great privilege to know some very talented young people whose dreams did come true . |
| 12 | What hours did have to work ? |
| 13 | What Dickson did do , along with almost everyone else in the event , was beat Jochen Schumann and Thierry Peponnet . |
| 14 | ‘ Which is exactly what Tristram did ask her to do — in the only one of his letters to Beatrix I 've read , sent from Tarragona in mid-March 1938 . ’ |
| 15 | What Eleanor did tell him however , was that she was about to go on holiday but that she hoped he would come to a meal in her flat when she returned . |
| 16 | But the look of dislike , which Alice was afraid might be what Roberta did feel for her , was replaced with Roberta 's more amiable look , and she sat up , feeling for cigarettes . |
| 17 | It gives a , it gives an idea of erm what Rochester did want . |
| 18 | What Hailey did see in the way of African unrest was a number of scattered local agitations arising from problems connected with land tenure , taxation , conditions of employment , and interference with native custom . |
| 19 | What Madame did tell Ellie , however , was that Mr O'Hara was very keen to renew their acquaintance , which he had found all too brief . |
| 20 | What studies did contribute to was its amendment , its clarification , its reinterpretation , its revision , its incorporation and almost replacement by other perspectives , in light of accumulating evidence from a wide range of studies . |
| 21 | What Woking did play ? |
| 22 | Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat . |
| 23 | This silence over Chlothild and the Alaman victory need not imply that they played no part in Clovis 's conversion , but it is as well to consider what Avitus did choose to emphasize . |
| 24 | In fact nobody knows exactly what Galileo did promise at this meeting in 1616 , but his enemies , by a gangster-like trick , did much later produce an unsigned document ( long after Bellarmine was dead ) claiming that Galileo had promised not to teach or publicise the Copernican doctrine . |
| 25 | It was exactly what Charles did fancy ( or at least part of what he fancied ) , so he said so . |
| 26 | Well that 's what Chrissy did see . |
| 27 | THE DIVISION OF LABOUR : WHAT WOMEN DID DO |