Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but er they were a bit of a nuisance because more than once , I must admit I erm , I collided with them which rather made me aware of their presence but anyway erm , then just beyond I am sorry , on the erm right hand side , a little way down this corridor , were the stairs up to the next floor which was in those days Public Health |
| 2 | However , he had a darker side , and his commitment to his work , which often made him oblivious of companions ' feelings , was partly responsible for the failure of his first marriage . |
| 3 | It was precisely the moral , ethical dimension of communism which initially made it impossible for Nizan not to join the party and work within its ranks . |
| 4 | After that he went to the pet shop which he despised but which occasionally sold him broken biscuits for William , cheap . |
| 5 | The chief US negotiator , Carla Hills ( the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations ) , said on April 6 that she hoped in the near future ( i ) for an amendment of Japan 's Large Retail Store Act , which currently made it difficult start up new retail outlets ; and ( ii ) a restructuring of Japan 's Patent Office , which was accused of taking an average 37 months to approve new products for the Japanese market , and thus of effectively hampering the import of new products . |
| 6 | The idea of touching people in the crowd or letting people in the crowd touch him was something that had not occurred to him , but to be beautiful and that remote — you 've got to get a crowd to touch him because that was what really got them wild . |
| 7 | After Bessie had left , he asked , ‘ What really made you ill ? ’ |
| 8 | But what really made it impossible for anyone to convict me was when , to my astonishment , a frail , bent old man appeared in the witness box . |