Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 2 | It was pink , not red like Hank Marvin 's , which disappointed me rather at the time . |
| 3 | The rest of her sentence died on her lips as Penry took her in his arms with a sound somewhere between a sigh and a groan as their lips met and their bodies flowed together in a deep , primeval need which united them almost at once in a storm of love and need as fierce as the one which raged , unheard , outside . |
| 4 | It turned out to be a real disaster when , in the first few days , we had an engine room fire which kept us alongside at Torquay for practically the whole three weeks . |
| 5 | LEEDS manager Howard Wilkinson has renewed his optimism about winning the championship following his team 's 3–0 win over Chelsea , which planted them back at the top , a point ahead of Manchester United who have two games in hand . |
| 6 | Actually , she opened with Mozart 's scena Misera , dove son which tested her somewhat at the top of the stave , but there followed arias from Manon , Don Pasquale and La Forza del Destino which she gave with commanding conviction , variety and characterisation . |
| 7 | Looking at his glistening face , his cheeks and forehead like apple-skins , Cameron wondered what fired him most at this moment — self-satisfaction ? or a true pleasure in poetic language ? |