Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Having with difficulty crossed the range over an entire new country , and penetrated to the centre of the dense Eucalypti scrub alluded to , in which I spent a night and part of two days without water for my horses , I was compelled , much to my regret , to beat a hasty retreat back to the ranges , in the gullies of which I even found difficulty in obtaining water . |
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| 3 | You may have dreamed all the ’ experiences ’ in which you ever heard mention of Socrates and Plato . |
| 4 | She banged into something solid which she immediately grabbed hold of , imagining it was part of a house . |
| 5 | As a voluntary worker in 1941 for the Bristol Council of Social Service in the War Emergency Bureau , she helped form the Old People 's Welfare Committee of which she then became Secretary . |
| 6 | Within hours of the signing of the law , Janet Benshoof , an attorney from the American Civil Liberties Union , made a speech in which she deliberately gave advice on where women could obtain abortions . |
| 7 | ‘ Ah , ’ the guide said with too perfect a smile , ‘ then you may remember , too , that the doors through which we just passed measure seven point three two metres . |
| 8 | The tensions of racism and fascism are rising in Europe — all the things which we resolutely moved armies to defeat in the past . |
| 9 | Within this hospital all aspects of operation and service provision were recently subject to an audit by the King 's Fund from which we subsequently received accreditation . |
| 10 | He married Elizabeth Leonie Knowles , by whom he had eleven children ; their two sons both went to Cambridge University before entering the family business , of which they later became directors . |
| 11 | it was the story of South Africa 's international summer , one in which they briefly touched heights and revealed glimpses of talent yet never quite reached their ultimate objectives in their travels through India , Australia , New Zealand and finally in the Caribbean . |
| 12 | Some men were particularly successful in Black Africa , and might return direct to Kufra with slaves , spices , even gold , which they then forwarded north to Alexandria for export , they alleged , ‘ to Istanbul ’ . |
| 13 | It discounted their felt need for individual responsibility and their desire to be entrusted with tasks over which they alone had control . |
| 14 | A few years after Lanfranc 's arrival , Eadmer described the English monks as living the lives of earls rather than monks , ‘ in all worldly glory , with gold and silver , with changes of fine clothes and delicate food , not to speak of the various kinds of musical instruments in which they delighted , and the horses , dogs and hawks with which they sometimes took exercise ’ . |
| 15 | In February 1952 an attempt was made to burn down an Evangelical church in Seville , and Cardinal Segura published a virulently anti-Protestant pastoral letter , in which he effectively accused Franco of betraying the sacred identity of Spain as a Catholic nation . |
| 16 | However , Gorbachev on Nov. 17 salvaged his prestige with a short address in which he unexpectedly produced proposals for constitutional reforms to strengthen the central leadership and raise the level of the republics ' involvement in it . |
| 17 | He deserves most of the credit for the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889 ; and from 1895 to the end of his life he was president of the University College at Aberystwyth , to which he regularly contributed £1,000 a year . |
| 18 | The Austrian President , Kurt Waldheim , paid a three-day official visit on Dec. 4-6 , 1989 , at the invitation of Ben Ali , during which he also had talks in Tunis with the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , Yassir Arafat . |
| 19 | The events of what came to be known as Barricades Week began on 18 January 1960 , when a German newspaper published an interview with General Massu , in which he openly attacked de Gaulle 's self-determination policy . |
| 20 | It was always farming circulars for her father , copies of the newspaper to which he occasionally contributed articles on sheep , seldom anything for her mother beyond invitations the senders knew they were safe from her accepting , or appeals for money from charities , the Scottish Women 's Institute , funds to save a painting for the Glasgow Art Gallery . |
| 21 | This was a handicap which he never found time to remedy later on in life . |
| 22 | Thus John V of Portugal ( 1706–50 ) gave public audiences regularly twice a week at which he personally received petitions for the redress of grievances . |
| 23 | Furthermore he Intimated to me that there was a pure distillate of the very Stone itself buried in precincts of Glastonbury Abbey , to which he alone had access . |
| 24 | Clinton delivered a victory speech in Little Rock , Arkansas , at around 11 p.m. local time on Nov. 3 , in which he magnanimously applauded Bush for his service to the country and for his leadership during the Gulf War . |
| 25 | It seemed at first that Hepworth , too , might make a telling contribution when he began with three maidens , in the course of which he comprehensively bowled Pearson . |
| 26 | Which he then sent off-planet , by various well-disguised and roundabout routes , to an unknown recipient . |
| 27 | Can I further ask will he join me to congratulate the Chief Constable in an unprecedented move in which he actually formed links and created a an environment of partnership as recently highlighted in the Leicester Mercury . |
| 28 | Here Heisenberg refers to a notion to which he often had recourse , that quantum mechanics had revived Aristotle 's old idea of potentia . |
| 29 | Cregeen began work on the dictionary about 1814 , collecting words from the Manx Bible ( 1770–5 ) , for which he often gave references , and from other printed sources , but also gathering material , words , phrases , scraps of traditional verse , and proverbs , from current usage . |
| 30 | I shall show why I do not think — it is not what my officials think , but what I think — that I would be right to use the discretion which he correctly said lies with me . |