Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the possibility of attack from ships which concerned him most ; and he proposed that he and Moray make a survey , by boat , to consider what , if anything , might be done protectively . |
| 2 | Lineage shaikhs designated one of their number to be a section shaikh , to represent them in affairs which concerned them all . |
| 3 | Even Karen felt a tiny sense of loss , which amused her more than it upset her . |
| 4 | There was a certain constraint in his manner now which made them both ill-at-ease . |
| 5 | She smiled at them again , and one of the young men leant towards his companion and said something which made them both laugh . |
| 6 | In its asides — quite apart from what he tells us about Milton — we see what it was about Lewis which struck W. T. Kirkpatrick as so remarkable , and which made him such a valued teacher and friend to so many people in the course of his life . |
| 7 | It must in fact plunge into the heart of the matter in order to lay bare the fundamental conditions which made it all even possible . |
| 8 | And to be his was what she wanted — which made it such a nonsense that when , as he caressed his hands over her naked behind and then pulled her to him , that as her body came into contact with the pure maleness of him , she experienced a moment of totally unexpected panic . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 10 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 11 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 12 | Robert Forbes pulled out before his partners were indicted , a manoeuvre which cost him all the accumulated wealth of Lorna Lewis 's golden days . |
| 13 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 14 | De Niro had to fight for him to co-star in GoodFellas , but that was the picture which changed it all . |
| 15 | Nothing could have sounded more incongruous than the shot which stopped it all . |
| 16 | Even Philip Corder felt inhibited by this evidence , although there was one sherd in this group ( no. 141 ) which caused him some concern , being obviously a Signal Station type , which should have belonged to the end of the fourth century ! |
| 17 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 18 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
| 19 | One dealer offered cocaine to his training manager which secured him some decent leads . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , we sailed straight into a terrible storm , which drove us many miles eastward . |
| 21 | The next dance was another waltz , which pleased them both as a waltz was more intimate than some of the other dances . |
| 22 | We must assume either that Warnie 's memory exaggerated the virulence of her hostility to Jack 's conversion , or that there was some particular thing about it which affected her more than anyone else . |
| 23 | as their political and moral equals by signing an agreement which committed them all to the same values . |
| 24 | Mr Hall denied this and maintained his 270 new recruits had been bonded together by the ugly scenes which confronted them each day as they passed picket lines . |
| 25 | He had a degree of concern for the vanquished Germans , and respect for them as individuals , which taught me another valuable lesson , and which still makes his name in Wilhelmshaven one which is honoured rather than reviled . |
| 26 | ’ I 'll go with you , ’ I said , which surprised us both a little . |
| 27 | In addition , my Grandfather , for twenty-odd years prior to his death , at the age of seventy two in 1907 , suffered from a chest condition which incapacitated him each winter . |
| 28 | It was a neat idea , and one which placed it half way between the rigid discipline of the Trotskyites and the hopeless chaos of the Anarchists ( or Libertarians , as they preferred to call themselves ) on the ultra-left spectrum . |
| 29 | Cale became famous for violent demonstrations on stage ; there were plenty of screams , stage props , a green surgeon 's outfit , the odd tooth-spitting , the beheaded ( but long dead ) chicken episode which lost him half his band , the time he wore the Cambridge Rapist 's mask … |
| 30 | It was the not knowing which perturbed him most and led him to take an action which he knew would lead to his inevitable and somewhat painful death . |