Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later having cut the ties and had a look at the will , he made another in which he repeated the legacy as follows : ‘ All the legacies I have left to people in the will which I have opened I want to be valid , and whatever is written in it . ’ |
| 2 | Greece had hoped for a more favourable frontier with Turkey ; she got some of what she wanted in 1881 . |
| 3 | She had been surprised by his view of the Tech-Greens , however , and dismissed much of what he said about them as paranoid hysteria . |
| 4 | He grasped most of what she was saying without ever quite bestowing upon her his full attention . |
| 5 | He was in an iron bed which resembled that on which he slept in ffeatherstonehaugh 's , but it had on one side a sad leatherette-and-wooden armchair and on the other a small white cabinet . |
| 6 | He brightened as he recalled some of what they had been told . |
| 7 | ‘ I paid some of what we owe the milkman and I bought some sausages and some bacon from Woolworth 's because we owe Whiting 's and I did n't want to go in there . ’ |
| 8 | Unfortunately they were shipwrecked and lost much of what they had been given . |
| 9 | This , called the Thulean Province , covered much of what we now call the north Atlantic Ocean , but over thousands of years , much of it sank again beneath the waters . |
| 10 | But over and above that , most Americans in the late eighteenth century believed that , in so far as government had any impact on their lives , it would be local government , it would be the government of their state and not the remote government in Washington which most people in the eighteenth century had never visited or knew anything about erm or li knew little of what it did . |
| 11 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 12 | Now it turns out that the Government knew all along what they were up to but told them to lie . |
| 13 | For some reason , Fenella thought most of what I said to her was rude . |
| 14 | ‘ Most people bought most of what they needed in the village . |
| 15 | As he turned towards thrift , consistency , classification , Tolkien forfeited much of what he had valued before ; he was contracting , not expanding . |
| 16 | The times suited his predilection for historical references in clothes , for dressing up , for being glamorous and the collections he did then saw him develop sureness of touch allied with a taste for a dangerous dare or two which characterised much of what he does today . |