Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Rhydoldog , Jane was invited to undertake a second phase of decoration at Remaisnil and , as one of her first gestures , removed a series of framed modern posters which Bernard had positioned up the main stairway ; the focus of the hallway henceforth was a magnificent eighteenth-century Brussels tapestry . |
| 2 | He held his gun ready — one of the Kalashnikovs which Trent had smuggled ashore . |
| 3 | Workers walked off the morning shift in 66 enterprises , including the giant Minsk tractor works , which Gorbachev had visited barely six weeks before [ see p. 38079 ] . |
| 4 | When Goethe , in a scene of Faust I written in Rome , evokes the travail of modern man and shows it being assuaged by the contemplation of the " silver figures of the ancient world " ( der Vorwelt silberne Gestalten ) these shapes are the ideal models of Greek man which Winckelmann had set up in his historico-aesthetic studies ; and when , in his " classical " drama Iphigenia in Tauris , Goethe 's fervent heroine is eventually victorious and the play resolves itself into a serene and harmonious close , it is the spirit of Winckelmann that triumphs . |
| 5 | Alan stared at the noticeboard on the opposite wall , pretending to read something but seeing nothing but a blur of the leaflets , notes , scraps of ribbon and withered buttonholes which Lucy had pegged up there . |
| 6 | He looked exactly the same except for his hair , which Hari had shaved off for his experiments and which had now grown into a furry black stubble through which the numbered segments of his skull could still be faintly perceived . |
| 7 | As such , the move attempted to recapture the populist politics of " People Power " from which Aquino had mobilized so effectively against Marcos . |
| 8 | His dream was to transform the world , as the key to the Theory of Evolution for which Darwin had striven so long . |
| 9 | She leaned against the wooden door of the orchard , which Léonie had left slightly ajar , and put a hand to the stitch in her side . |
| 10 | In brief , the good leader , the man who could inspire his army , not merely he who could avoid the obvious pitfalls of generalship which Frontinus had pointed out , might be born with certain inherent qualities , but these had to be developed in the only way that could lead to success , through practice and experience . |
| 11 | It was not until the following Monday that the affidavits on which Julia had worked so hard and for so long were presented to the court . |
| 12 | Near the start there are a couple of pieces which Tolkien had written up to thirty years before , both rewritten a little for their new context : Frodo 's ‘ Man in the Moon ’ song in the Prancing Pony , Sam 's ‘ Rhyme of the Troll ’ near Weathertop . |
| 13 | She walked up the same hill which d'Urberville had driven down so wildly that June day . |
| 14 | Maureen hid her feelings and plied him with tea and food from the trolley which Helen had wheeled in . |
| 15 | Eliot was fascinated by the idea which Cornford had put forward ‘ in ‘ The Origin of Attic Comedy ’ , [ that ] this [ medicine-man ] Doctor may be identical with the Doctor who is called in to assist Punch after he has been thrown by his horse' . |
| 16 | It turned out the reason we all had to face north-west was because it was the direction ‘ from which Rose had come forth ’ ! |
| 17 | ‘ No more chocolate , thanks , ’ she said again , then stared down at the topaz surrounded by a cluster of diamonds which Vitor had slid on to the third finger of her left hand . |
| 18 | However , there was a separate issue that stemmed from Mr Gillespie 's original agreement with Lawrence which MIH had taken over . |
| 19 | There was also the monthly parish draw — top prize , £5 — a ‘ Children 's Corner ’ ( rabbits and a cross to colour in this month ) and Peter 's ‘ Letter from the Rector ’ , which Anna had given up reading because she could not recognize the man in the message . |
| 20 | The boulders which God had flung about at the time of the creation had , to Lydia 's eyes , a patriarchal air , and the pebbles which littered the stream seemed like little children confidently at rest in this fatherly presence . |
| 21 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 22 | ‘ Awful , awful trouble , ’ she replied and began to re-tell the story which Derek had told earlier in the evening . |
| 23 | She would not claim to be content , because contentment came with having the man you loved lying beside you on a cold night ; it came with that certain wonderful intimacy which Beth had experienced once long ago , and which was lost for ever . |
| 24 | Restrictive practices , which Clasper had fought so hard to introduce , were being discarded at a rate of knots in the quest to increase efficiency , output and earnings . |
| 25 | And now , sitting legs stretched , on a chair too low comfortably to accommodate his six feet two inches , eyes fixed on that single taper , unflickering in the incense-heavy stillness , he could hear again the tone , taut with self-disgust , in which Berowne had explained why he had given up the law : |
| 26 | The poet characteristically longs to be not only far from the madding crowd , which Pope had wanted as much as Gray , but far from everybody . |
| 27 | But Morse was consulting the Paddington-Oxford timetable which Lewis had picked up for him from Reception , and was nodding to himself as he noted that the 13.30 arrived at Oxford 14.57 , just as Kemp had claimed . |
| 28 | He had just remembered where he 'd heard the phrase with which Crepi had rung off . |
| 29 | He showed it to Patrizia Valesio and asked if she knew anything about the asterisks which Chiodini had pointed out . |
| 30 | Here too Anselm is adopting some part at least of the vocabulary of the new ecclesiastical theorists in describing the situation which Rufus had taken over from his father . |