Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
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 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 I wish there was still something to look at which gave me the same feeling .
13 It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 That 's what got me the two years inside , pal .
18 What gave her the greatest satisfaction was the water , now bloodstained by the final , flamboyant exhibition of the setting sun .
19 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 .
  Next page