Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swod 's name and address had been given to Blanche by a librarian in the Polish Centre in Hammersmith — the one to which Mills had bequeathed a legacy . |
| 2 | Among these was an Utrillo which Minton remarked looked a little grubby . |
| 3 | Iskandara had changed into black taffeta and her mother 's diamonds and James wore plaid trousers and a velvet jacket and a collar he loathed almost as much as Alexandra loathed the pudding , a high stiffened wing collar around which Murray had tied a bow tie of black grosgrain . |
| 4 | The highway stretched pale and deserted in the evening sun , yet this was the very same road on which Sharpe had seen a French corps marching that morning . |
| 5 | Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) . |
| 6 | A friendship treaty was signed on June 10 with Kirgizstan , to which Russia had offered a 10-year 1,000 million rouble loan in May when earthquakes caused damage worth an estimated 2,500 million roubles . |
| 7 | But London disliked the condition , which Schuman had made a non-negotiable basis for talks on his Plan , that all member states must accept the principle of supranational co-operation . |
| 8 | The evening sun , shining at the moment through a side window , over which Franca had drawn a curtain , showed up , glowing like stained glass , a pattern of green and blue leaves and red grapes . |
| 9 | He did locate the apple orchard from which Liebermann had composed a large picture , and he made a sketch of it . |
| 10 | His enemies attacked its vulgar over-simplification , but the lecture did bring near the centre of popular debate many of the problems which Moberly had analysed a decade before . |
| 11 | Among the latter was Imelda Marcos whom he had defeated in the election , and who , together with her husband President Ferdinand Marcos , had been forced from office in 1986 by a popular campaign in which Ramos had played a key role . |
| 12 | There was , however , a sense in which Gandhi did pose a personal challenge to the British , as distinct from the institutional challenge of organized mass disobedience for which he was responsible . |
| 13 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 14 | Right : Clarissa wears her own make-up , which Judith updated to give a softer look ( far right ) . |
| 15 | Exactly what Reagan said remains a mystery , but the very fact that he did not dismiss the idea out of hand as quite contrary to all his public statements about Iran certainly left those u the meeting in no doubt that he wanted the deal to go ahead . |