Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd slotted in , by mistake , a tape on which I 'd recorded some sixties pop music for a party , and which I 'd never run back . |
| 2 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 3 | My going-away present to them had been a pair of inflatable yellow wheel clamps which I 'd attached front and aft to their VW Golf . |
| 4 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 5 | ‘ As a senior director , I 'm used to having complete creative authority while making a film and I found that I could n't carry out my job in the manner to which I had become accustomed . |
| 6 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 7 | Mum asked me to ice his birthday cake while they were out and decorate it with chocolate leaves which I had to make first . |
| 8 | Because another way in which I had to throw good money after bad was that after he died once I started having things done in the house they kept on turning up things that he had done that were absolutely N B G |
| 9 | And the human frame on to which I had grafted this delusion had definitely left Cliff Top , but despite this , from time to time I would come across what seemed like obscure messages , quirkily encoded , that threatened to upset my peace of mind . |
| 10 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |
| 11 | I remembered the queer mixture of fear and belief with which I had read this and afterwards written it down . |
| 12 | It was here that we found the official report of the operation by 22 Squadron on September 17 , 1940 , the report with which I had opened this story . |
| 13 | Then someone dragged me along to learn meditation , which I found did most of the things advertised for it — you feel more focused and it reduces the interminable mental chatter that stops you getting to sleep at night . |
| 14 | Denmark , which I visited to explore this very subject , uses this process . |
| 15 | There was a carpet into which you seemed to sink several inches , an ornate desk in the style of the French Empire , a huge couch , upholstered in grey and scarlet , and a number of big soft armchairs in the same pattern . |
| 16 | which you decided had some prospects of being reclaimed . |
| 17 | It thus overtook the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) , the ruling party since 1962 , which won only 15 seats ; it had won 23.5 per cent of the vote but many of its votes were cast in constituencies where the FLN lost narrowly to the FIS , which itself had won 47.5 per cent of the vote . |
| 18 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 19 | But her abiding passions were medieval history and archaeology which she continued to study all her life . |
| 20 | She was the chairman of the Forest of Arden Young Conservatives which she had joined three years previously at her mother 's prompting . |
| 21 | They came to the ‘ eye ’ of this storm , below a sullen , winter sky , and at once Tallis began to recognize the deep canyon which she had hollowed those days before , with Morthen . |
| 22 | She had forgotten the sidearm , which she had kept sand-free but not discharged in months . |
| 23 | How much information might she have sought and pieced together , about which she had kept quiet ? |
| 24 | As Shama talked , Hussa added a reminder here and there as though they were stories which she had heard many times before . |
| 25 | My salary was barely enough to keep me in sliced white and undies , never mind maintain Mrs Dennis Parsons in the style to which she had become accustomed . |
| 26 | In the first case Eleanor gave a judicial decision condemning consanguineous marriages — of which she had made two . |
| 27 | She had no idea whether he had ever received the letter which she had felt obliged to write , telling him she was pregnant . |
| 28 | The patient complained of pain to a scar on her leg which she had cut 18 mths previously and which had taken 6 weeks to heal at the time . |
| 29 | When she returned to Jedburgh that evening she was in great pain from what is likely to have been a haemorrhage , of which she had suffered several since her son 's birth . |
| 30 | Sally Ann Cattell died in a stolen car which crashed during a police chase last March , but the SSD denied reports that she had absconded from the children 's home , St John 's in Erdington , to which she had moved three days before the incident . |