Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the impetus had been the growing frustration felt by women in the voluntary work committees that they and the issues which concerned them tended to be elbowed aside by men . |
| 2 | Kleinwort Benson , which disclosed it had purchased 200,000 of its own shares at 353p each , rose 11p to 366p and Hambros edged ahead 3p to 232p . |
| 3 | In Basrah , Baghdad and wherever Shiite communities were to be found , the streets were festooned with black banners lettered in white , announcing the name of a new ‘ martyr ’ and at which front he had fallen . |
| 4 | I was told that each train which passed us happened to be the one that was taking Tam Mahaddie away to kill the Kaiser and win the war . |
| 5 | Ezooli and Eve were more interested in the cafés , while Elice planned tragically which drugs she planned to get hold of . |
| 6 | But Branson always regarded licensing deals as unsatisfactory ; in the first place , the licensee could pick and choose which records it wanted to release , and did not always have the ‘ emotional commitment ’ to making them hits . |
| 7 | Depending , of course , upon which fingers you crossed . |
| 8 | A brief moment of the winter which pursued her sent a scampering chill through the warm place . |
| 9 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 10 | The people of Ely ‘ have but a turfy scent and fenny posture about them , which smell I did not relish at all with any content ’ . |
| 11 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 12 | But it was n't true ; today the invisible hand of fate seemed to be drawing a thick black line under that particular chapter of her life which involved anything related to Luke . |
| 13 | Though the women accept the necessity for this , they still mourn the pigs ' passing , and the men have to make sure that when the meat is served out , the women do n't know which pig it came from . |
| 14 | Your welcome letter found me at Launceston at which place I remained two days with Mr. Kerr , Captn Friend etc . |
| 15 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 16 | The snow was wet and heavy which prevented anyone trapped from breathing or struggling free . |
| 17 | It was not so much his attentiveness to her — the infatuation of old men was common enough — but her petting and cooing with him which provoked what became a quietly savoured complicity between Hope and Mary . |
| 18 | He was conscious of being watched by unfriendly eyes which show he felt he was a stranger intruding . |
| 19 | A plaque beside the empty reflecting pool and its silent fountains explained that the water system which filled it had become ‘ obsolete ’ in the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | Herein lay a paradox : the PSBC was ‘ patronage [ good ] , that is , supporting projects of merit and quality ’ , whereas ‘ paternalism ’ [ bad ] referred to institutions , such as the BBC , which believed they knew what the public needed . |
| 21 | All of Brundle 's simple rules and runes had left the complacent head which believed it knew it all anyway . |
| 22 | There followed an unseemly dispute between the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , who owned the freehold , and the City , which believed it had a lease in perpetuity . |
| 23 | That structure was consolidated in the Local Government Act 1933 , under which Act it remained the system of local government until the Local Government Act 1972 . |
| 24 | Bolton Health Authority , which says it learned only on Friday night that the doctor was an AIDS victim , is writing to all 260 patients he treated at the hospital and will make sure they are all contacted and offered counselling and tests if required . |
| 25 | The baronetcy was a reward for acts of loyalty or oppression , depending upon which view you took of a small rebellion in the 1720s . |
| 26 | I was n't partisan politically but I did think that choice was important , whether it was which brand you chose or which person you decided to deride . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the Reston , Virginia-based Visix , which reckons it missed the contract IBM awarded to Neuron Data Inc last week by a whisker , is thought to be looking at some alternative ways of marketing Galaxy , including using the Internet as a vehicle . |
| 28 | The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time . |
| 29 | Indeed , an upbringing which gave Alexander II many qualifications for the tasks which confronted him failed to conceal the fact that he was not very gifted at all . |
| 30 | There was one brief moment while she stood illuminated thus theatrically , and still not at all comprehending that the group which confronted her had had a close brush with tragedy . |