Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 2 | ‘ No buts , ’ said the man and without warning gave Charlie a shove in the chest which propelled him back into the street . |
| 3 | er , when you know you go home and lying on the doormat on the Friday night is a great tome of paper that came second post which made me out to be the biggest idiot philanderer , thief , cheat and liar in the world |
| 4 | All I can say is please thank ALL of those involved for all their efforts which got us out of one almighty jam . |
| 5 | It was the thud of a horse 's hooves , very near , almost on her , which jerked her back to reality . |
| 6 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 7 | ‘ No , the agency which hired her out to Mrs Wilson . ’ |
| 8 | She was n't looking forward to it , which is a little surprising for a 16 year old who , just 3 years ago , combined all the elements of her talent to produce the compound which exploded her on to the junior tennis scene ! |
| 9 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 10 | ‘ It was an old-fashioned impulse which drove me back to my own room before the house staff and my other guests awoke . |
| 11 | KEVIN DEARDEN saved a second-half penalty to earn Birmingham a 2–1 victory over Bolton which lifted them back to the top of the Third Division for the first time since November . |
| 12 | When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit . |
| 13 | He was high up in the syndicate , which tied him in to Truro Daine . |
| 14 | The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 . |
| 15 | United 's game plan , with few refinements , is that which took them up behind Wolves in May : long balls from the back , incessant hustling in midfield , nine men behind the ball when the opposition have it . |
| 16 | We watched them get into a small carriage which took them off to their new residence . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 18 | It held together with the engine , the rest of the fuselage separating which took him out of the major part of the fire . |
| 19 | He seemed to remember something about her , something which took him back into a happy past , before decision made his life difficult . |
| 20 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 21 | There was a split second of violent clattering as cannon shells hit the machine and then I was clear , and in a 270° turn which took me back across my flight path and into the safety of that wonderful cloud . |
| 22 | After the train , we went on Mr Ross 's boat , which took us out to the island . |
| 23 | Her season began unpromisingly with an attack of shingles which kept her out of action for a couple of weeks but she recovered quickly and so completely that in addition to compiling her formidable record on the golf course , she was able to cope more than adequately with her school exams . |
| 24 | Angus Fraser is still feeling discomfort from the hip injury which kept him out for most of last season and may have to play in pain if he is to resume his first-class career . |
| 25 | Earlier this week , Salako had surgery in the US on the same knee which kept him out for most of last season and Palace are set to demand the FA pay his wages until he is fit again . |
| 26 | LUTON v ASTON VILLA Nielsen , Villa 's Danish defender , will start for the first time if McGrath fails to recover from the hamstring injury which kept him out of the Republic of Ireland team in midweek . |
| 27 | ANDERS NIELSEN , the national champion , showed no sign of the back injury which kept him out of the team event as he eased into today 's men 's singles quarter-finals at the Pilkington Glass European Badminton Championships in Glasgow . |
| 28 | The tour party was weakened when Gordon Hamilton , the World Cup flank forward , withdrew yesterday because of doubts about his back injury , which kept him out of the Five Nations Championship . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , Bob Bigg 's Palace career was greatly reduced by a badly broken leg sustained at Newport in February 1937 , which kept him out of first-team action for fully 21 months , and some of the contemporary pundits reckoned that his absence cost us the single promotion place from Division 3 South in 1938–39 . |
| 30 | India were handicapped by Prabhakar 's stomach strains , which kept him out of the attack . |