Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the lesson he told me that he wanted to buy a really good shirt he 'd seen somewhere , and I enquired into the resale potential of the item with a view to recovering my outlay in case of bankruptcy , which amused him further ; and then I gave him my terms . |
| 2 | Roman weapons used the bow as their mechanical basis , but the medieval ones tended to use the sling , which made them heavier and more cumbersome . |
| 3 | One night I remember clearly was when we lost an aircraft and crew at Bourn , not over Germany but back on our own air field , which made it worse . |
| 4 | From a local survey they found that many girls of this age were very frightened in labour , which made it worse , and that they had little idea about coping with a tiny baby . |
| 5 | I could n't look as if I did n't care , which made it worse . |
| 6 | Both of us went on a diet which made it easier , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Having to absorb this phenomenon — for such the eighteen-and-a-half-year-old became within a month or two , despite all the swirl of competition ( from local airfields and ancient academies ) — the Oxford undergraduates graciously invented a school and background which made it easier for them to justify taking him on board . |
| 8 | Some general stimuli seem to have been the persistence of higher birth rates in rural areas ( which meant pressure on land ) , the attractions of city life , better public transport , which made it easier for cities to recruit labour from a wider area , and , above all , the creation of employment as industry grew up near supplies of raw materials and important transport centres . |
| 9 | This sounds like more work than it was , because we integrated these introductory modules with each other , and with general SVQ modules , which made it easier . |
| 10 | But Shelley admitted that she had fallen in love with his music , which made it easier to like everything else Spanish . |
| 11 | This followed the abolition of exchange controls in 1979 , which made it easier to move funds between financial centres in different countries . |
| 12 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 13 | He was subjected to the common medical practice of bleeding , which weakened him further , and a massive cerebral haemorrhage finally killed him . |
| 14 | His successor , Akihito , visited China last year and half apologised for Japan 's wartime behaviour , which brought him closer to matters of state than his predecessors had deemed wise . |
| 15 | Local authorities assumed something like their present form after the Local Government Act of 1888 , which gave them greater powers to raise funds and pass by-laws . |
| 16 | Weak and under-nourished , he barely survived a dose of diphtheria , which left him weaker than before , and an even softer target for the torments of his three hefty brothers . |
| 17 | What made it worse , was that the police had the time of the tram-cars and the time it took to get to a certain stop . |
| 18 | What made it worse was that he had a terrible cold at the time . |
| 19 | What made it worse was that Prince Charles seemed less concerned about her predicament than that of his friend Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 20 | What made it worse was that his face remained so still , as expressionless as it had been earlier when discussing trivia with the Doctor . |
| 21 | What made it worse was his coldness . |
| 22 | What made it worse was that the infection was traced to some undercooked meat she 'd eaten in England . |
| 23 | That was bad enough but what made it worse was that I had n't the faintest idea what was wrong with them . |
| 24 | What made it worse was that in order to explain the frustrations that I had experienced I found myself making stereotyping judgments about Africans as lazy — not even caring to look after themselves — and as unreliable . |
| 25 | What made it worse was I heard people saying what a very good side Spartak were . |
| 26 | The one person each loved , for Celie it was her sister , Nettie and for Phyllisia , it was Edith , their oppressors had driven away and as Phyllisia said what made it worse was that , ‘ I let you . ’ |