Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 2 | Which made her the last person to know how to handle this evening 's adventure . |
| 3 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 4 | Boston ( 1086–1113 ) too is a planted town , its plan related to the curving banks of the River Witham along which came the trade which made it the second most prosperous town after London by 1206 . |
| 5 | Although she was anxious to be able to travel on the underground and in aeroplanes , she felt that the problem which caused her the most inconvenience was her inability to go into any large shop or department store without experiencing extreme panic . |
| 6 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 7 | In 1861 Crookes made the discovery which brought him the necessary eminence ; he identified the new element thallium . |
| 8 | In that film , Julie played the Bond villainess Rosika , which offered her the dubious acting delight of smothering a man between her 49-inch breasts . |
| 9 | The most obvious connection was , of course , France itself and on most occasions which presented themselves the French told the Americans of their difficulties and requirements in Indo-China , how many of their troops were there and , usually , how many they had lost . |
| 10 | Furthermore , their ascendancy accompanied the severest phase of the recession , which gave them the added incentive to try something different as some of their own areas were among the hardest hit . |
| 11 | Within fifteen months he secured a reunited Conservative Party , which gave him the longest uninterrupted party premiership between Asquith and Attlee , the final reduction to a rump of the Liberal Party , and a brief , innocuous baptism of power for the Labour Party . |
| 12 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 13 | I wish there was still something to look at which gave me the same feeling . |
| 14 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 15 | Robyn strolled up the shopping mall with its glass and fancy tiles and green lush plants , which gave it the strange appearance of a tropical jungle littered with high-street stores , and considered which one of the high-class boutiques she should enter first . |
| 16 | a derivative of it , which gave you the same high that ecstasy does and er , and if you did n't it from the doctor you could buy it on the street . |
| 17 | He was everything that the Hildebrandine Church abhorred , but he had virtues which won him the warm friendship of Marbod , the talented bishop of Rennes , and of the greatest canonist of his day , Ivo of Chartres . |
| 18 | Four parties had previously collaborated with the SED within the National Front : ( i ) the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) which merged with the West German CDU on Oct. 1 [ see p. 37761 ] ; ( ii ) the Democratic Farmers ' Party of Germany ( DBD ) , whose chair , Günther Maleuda , resigned on June 25 and was temporarily replaced by Ulrich Junghanns pending a merger with the CDU ; ( iii ) the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany ( LDPD ) , which renamed itself the Liberal Democratic Party and joined the new League of Free Democrats in February 1990 and merged with the West German FDP in August [ see p. 37661 ] ; and ( iv ) the National Democratic Party of Germany ( NDPD ) which joined the League of Free Democrats in March [ see pp. 37260 ; 37302 ] . |
| 19 | It also conveyed the message that the CFLN — which renamed itself the Provisional Government of the French Republic ( GPRF — Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Français ) as of June 1944 — had a role beyond liberation . |
| 20 | That 's what got me the two years inside , pal . |
| 21 | What gave her the greatest satisfaction was the water , now bloodstained by the final , flamboyant exhibition of the setting sun . |
| 22 | The rules and routines of the institution made her feel secure and offered her plentiful opportunities to do what gave her the most satisfaction , to comply . |