Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it was papier-mache on which someone had done a skilful paint job . |
| 2 | I would always try and choose pieces which I thought had a bit of atmosphere and mood , a passion which made up for the lack of presentation ! ’ |
| 3 | I remember that he liked one in celebration of wool ; another was of everything brown or gray , for which I had arranged a large collection of natural objects , of woven and blockprinted textiles , pots , and beautiful bowls and boxes made of wood . |
| 4 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 5 | The comments of one respondent in a mid-1980s ' study of mothers with pre-school children which I conducted reflected a theme identified in other studies of family life ( see Brannen and Wilson , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | A day or two later I had a free morning , in which I intended to follow a class in Spanish language . |
| 7 | I hope that the Minister will accept that the case studies to which I referred highlight a serious problem . |
| 8 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 9 | Nor could he avoid reminding Charlotte of the hopeful turn Colin 's case had taken — a turn to which she had made a significant contribution — while her niece 's plight seemed only to worsen by the day . |
| 10 | She had a sort of velvet cap , from which she had snipped a bit of veiling . |
| 11 | The elegantly shabby room in which she had found a haven was an oasis in the East End 's desert , which could be glimpsed through the small bow window . |
| 12 | On the day of the overdose , after her husband and daughter had gone to work , she had finished writing a suicide note which she had started a week before . |
| 13 | Approximately 100 people then took part in the business meeting when our President , Lady Braithwaite , opened the proceedings with many congratulations to the Society on the previous eventful year in which she had taken a deep interest . |
| 14 | All the knowledge she had came from her lessons in the village school , which she had left a year or two earlier . |
| 15 | Joan Daniels joined a Medau class at Blackheath in 1956 and started teacher training in 1961 , which she interrupted to have a family , two sons and a daughter before qualifying in 1969 . |
| 16 | She published a history of the UDC , Builders of Peace ( 1924 ) , and from 1925 to 1928 was editor of the UDC journal , Foreign Affairs , which she aimed to make a more popular and widely read journal . |
| 17 | I shall remember him for his magnificent work in the West Riding through many years , and for his naughty and teasing sense of humour which so often cheered us up in the dismal surroundings of the Hemsworth Division and places like that , and which one realised hid a most sensitive and affectionate personality . |
| 18 | The three sample causal beliefs with which we began have a number of features . |
| 19 | I pay tribute to the Association of British Insurers , to which we began talking a couple of years ago . |
| 20 | it had been a great patrol during which we had made a lot of new friends , carried out a great deal of work en route and broken into completely new territory for the cutters . |
| 21 | We 're going to talk to you about er Farm project and its basic problems which we had to put a programme together and er make the job |
| 22 | On one such incident I was in command of Venturous patrolling in the Straits of Dover at the end of a very busy Bank Holiday , during which we had followed a suspect yacht from just outside Calais , and handed her over to our special unit in Dover . |
| 23 | ‘ My brother , Mark , is on one song which we had cut a while ago and it wound up going on the record because it was such a good demo . ’ |
| 24 | the main , er the usual recurring cost was er redecorating cost which we had introduced a fund for on the outset |
| 25 | If they found a passage which they thought had a bearing on the issue in this case , that passage would have to be construed in the light of the proceedings as a whole . |
| 26 | On Sept. 17 the same leaders met the Public Security Minister , Ismaila Nimaga , after which they agreed to suspend a rally planned for the following day . |
| 27 | In Northern Nigeria , he succeeded in detaching the judicial system and the technical departments from the grip of the administrative service , whose claims to omnipotence and omnicompetence were thereby permanently reduced from the heights to which they had risen a decade before . |
| 28 | A family who lived there befriended us , looked after our bags and , solicitous of each other , we took turns on the one spare seat from which they had moved a child . |
| 29 | The financial rationale of the great companies had been the way in which they had enabled a generation of investors , most of whom were substantial , to become merchants by proxy . |
| 30 | They used Hilbert 's wine glasses because none of them could tolerate drinking from plastic or cartons but they ate off paper plates of which they had bought a hundred . |