Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ After what happened last night ? |
| 2 | ‘ After what happened last time , ’ she replied . |
| 3 | Before they reached the towering stack of containers , between which ran innumerable alleyways where no faint light penetrated , they came upon a series of deck hatches . |
| 4 | The findings suggest that the period during which developed human society has flourished may be a time of unusual stability . |
| 5 | It was a hell of leaping flames through which darted black figures . |
| 6 | Amphibious raiding along the Channel coast and elsewhere became a coordinated intelligence gathering operation in preparation for the opening of a Second Front by the invasion of Europe , plans for which entailed amphibious training for large armies , pre-empting men and equipment from possible large raids . |
| 7 | Judging by site alone , 83 per cent could be due to venous disorders , and 10 per cent to arterial insufficiency — a disproportionate number of which affected male patients . |
| 8 | The Ulster majority was humiliated and alarmed , but its immediate emotions were channelled into a two-day general strike and Peaceful protest rallies , one of which attracted 100,000 people . |
| 9 | The rich farming land surrounding the city determined the city , s development as a market town , with its regular cattle and produce sales , neither of which attracted Jewish merchants . |
| 10 | Five experimental words were chosen ; four of which had four senses and the remaining word three . |
| 11 | I was running along the pavement of Rochdale Road , just after midnight , wearing , among other things , two quilted anoraks , one of which had fourteen pounds of sand sewn into the lining . |
| 12 | There were rows and rows of cheaply printed books of weird poetry about erotic fantasies all of which had close links with LSD … |
| 13 | He also wrote about three dozen plays and seventeen musicals , several of which had long runs , including Crutch and Toothpick ( 1879 ) and especially The Lights o' London ( 1881 ) . |
| 14 | From here I went to the Asprey , Mallett of Bourdon House , and S J Phillips stands , all of which had many treasures I coveted . |
| 15 | A large collection of sun-hats hung on pegs in the entrance hall , bowls were filled with dried lavender and a huge pottery jar was crammed with walking-sticks , some of which had ornate silver handles . |
| 16 | There was such a variety of activities and competitions for all ages — tennis , windsurfing , dinghy sailing , table tennis ( some of which had free instruction ) . |
| 17 | On May 15 the Greek parliament voted by 117 to 24 that the criminal charges against the former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou , the latest of which had concerned allegations that as Prime Minister Papandreou had illegally ordered the phones of political enemies to be bugged , should be dropped . |
| 18 | One expression of this unity is the growth of great interstate sanctuaries , many of which had four-yearly festivals and games open to all Greeks . |
| 19 | Martin recorded several plants which indicated diuretic properties , some of which had purgative effects , and others which ‘ cured the fluxes ’ , such as the syrup of bilberries . |
| 20 | The 19th century witnessed the evolution of public and saloon bars ; the introduction of bar , or counter , rather than waiter , service ; and the legal licensing of premises , all of which had profound effects on pub design . |
| 21 | The polytechnic was originally formed from three colleges , two of which ran applied physics degree courses . |
| 22 | She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands . |
| 23 | Adam swiftly read the titles , most of which contained romantic words like ‘ love ’ , ‘ heart ’ , ‘ arrow ’ , ‘ passionate ’ , ‘ fire ’ , ‘ dream ’ , ‘ kiss ’ , and ‘ enchanted ’ . |
| 24 | The numbers from Fujitsu Ltd , Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp , all of which announced last week , were every bit as bad as expected , with Fujitsu plunging to a consolidated net loss of $295m and the other two more comfortably diversified companies reporting sharp profit declines of 39.4% at $699.4m and 48% at $186m respectively . |
| 25 | Based on a study of fifteen abandoned sites in the Paragominas region south of Belém , each of which experienced varying degrees of land-use intensity , Buschbacher et al. have shown that only those sites where low- and medium-intensity use were practised are likely to return to a forest cover . |
| 26 | The demes were organized into three groups ( or trittyes ) , coastal , in land and city , and these were artificially aggregated into bigger units called tribes , phylai : a trittys of coastal , a trittys of inland and a trittys of city demes went to make up one of the ten tribes of Attica , each of which sent fifty councillors to Athens . |
| 27 | Various regional movements emerged , some of which became political parties . |
| 28 | If you think about it , this is a naive question , since it would be possible ( in theory ) to construct a TV schedule to get 100 TVRs by using 100 spots which each achieved one TVR or by using four spots each of which achieved 25 TVRs . |
| 29 | Fierce competition between the major tour operators in Britain , Germany and Scandinavia produced advantageous deals with airlines and hotels ; there were better and more economical aircraft , and less financial restrictions , all of which produced cheaper holidays . |
| 30 | When I joined the company it had fifty-eight blast furnaces , the largest of which produced 2,750 tons a day . |