Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that all the students had taken a course which qualified them to teach children for their first five years in school . |
| 2 | It was a rebellion which led me to take wife and kids from the suburbs into the peace of the countryside . |
| 3 | Furthermore , William of Jumièges was probably writing in the 1050s , after Edward the Confessor had promised the English throne to Robert 's son William , and it was fairly clearly this which led him to repeat Dudo of St Quentin 's story of the English king who entered into a pact with the Normans and later received Rollo 's assistance against rebels , to include accounts of Anglo-Norman relations in the days of Æthelred and Cnut , and to end his description of Cnut 's conquest of England and marriage to Emma by stating that he had wished to explain King Edward 's origins to those who were ignorant of them . |
| 4 | If he had one trait of potential consequence it was his fondness for France , which led him to encourage efforts to ally with that country , but the international situation made these futile during his lifetime . |
| 5 | They emphasised that it was the circumstances of the individual case which led them to reject charges of degrading or inhuman treatment . |
| 6 | It helps explain his fixation on the details of other people 's erotic lives , the keyhole stuff that filled his files , the anger — envy , perhaps — which made him project homosexuality onto all manner of public figures . |
| 7 | To her credit , she tried very hard not to even once look over at the table , though she was being subjected to the constant tinkle of happy laughter , which made her think Matthew must be at his witty best . |
| 8 | Tricia sat between Melanie and me , which made me change gear ever so carefully in case I brushed against her ample thigh , and Melanie shouted instructions around her . |
| 9 | ‘ And he gave me a big cuddle even though I 'm 16 , which made me feel tons better straight away . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ And he gave me a big cuddle even though I 'm 16 , which made me feel tons better straight away . ’ |
| 11 | And she got Palantype equipment in the Commons , which helped him follow proceedings . |
| 12 | The cyclists carried a letter of introduction from Bishop Brewer which helped them secure accommodation at a few churches along the way , including the Cathedrals at Assisi and Chartres . |
| 13 | What did Higueras spot in Michael Chang which caused him to envisage Chang in stellar performances on French clay ? |
| 14 | He never married , and had led a very healthy life which caused him to have over-confidence in his constitution and thus neglected to go to a physician at the onset of a serious illness , until it was too late . |
| 15 | My reaction to female flesh was neither as extreme nor as ignorant as that , and it was only my own , not that of other women , which caused me to feel revulsion . |
| 16 | Now I can see that I was wrong to assume that mere dedication to a craft ineluctably results in fine work , but it was that conviction which drove me to put Jean-Claude and his work on the map . |
| 17 | Of his 8 previous Ulster supporters , 4 had gone down in defeat , I did not re-stand and 3 were marching under new orders which forbade them to give support as in the past . |
| 18 | She had an idea and asked him to meet her that evening at a time which allowed her to see Shildon first . |
| 19 | Any threat to press freedom came , not from Goldsmith , but from the law which allowed him to sue distributors of libel-prone magazines . |
| 20 | Nixon claimed that as President he had special executive privileges which allowed him to refuse access to the tapes . |
| 21 | Although there was no other region which he dominated for the king , he did have other land which allowed him to exercise lordship on a more modest scale . |
| 22 | Although there was no other region which he dominated for the king , he did have other land which allowed him to exercise lordship on a more modest scale . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , all the clever work in the midfield which allowed them to create overlaps and scoring opportunities was wasted due to their lack of pace out wide . |
| 24 | The overwhelming need was just for more films and so nobody really worried if there were a few strange films somewhere along the spectrum and similarly , as there was a need for lots of directors and cameramen , there was no harm in making films which allowed them to gain experience . |
| 25 | The children received either a task which required them to make use of temporal order information ( the temporal task ) , or a task which allowed them to make use of causal direction information ( the causal task ) . |
| 26 | However , in 1896 the South African mining bureaucracy took MacArthur through their courts to prove an esoteric weakness in the patent , which allowed them to avoid royalty payments to the man who had rejuvenated their industry . |
| 27 | I am convinced that it was only our privatisation proposals which allowed us to bring gas as a real possibility — now a probability , and almost certainly a certainty — to Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | Er it was called an A licence which allowed you to take furniture all over the country to wherever you needed to go to remove people . |
| 29 | The Government was claiming it was entitled to intervene under an EC directive which allowed it to impose restrictions on ‘ retransmissions ’ of broadcasts from other member states . |
| 30 | The Court , however , ruled on March 19 , 1991 , that the Commission had been within in its powers in invoking Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome , which allowed it to override government objections in such cases [ see p. 36154 ] . |