Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been no retaliation by the MacIans , but they all knew they were ready for it if any had come , and who to thank for the readiness ; and no-one mentioned who they had to thank for the threat . |
| 2 | I listened to 6 sports reports on Saturday and not one of them mentioned who scored for Leeds . |
| 3 | The extra performance on the Tuesday in aid of the new cancer day-care ward at Whiston Hospital raised three hundred pounds and special thanks go to Betty who came up with the original idea and everyone involved who organized the marvellous spread for the soiree afterwards . |
| 4 | The first time I saw Mlle de Montijo was at a reception given by Princess Mathilde for the Duchess of Hamilton ; I was struck by the beauty , the grace of this foreign girl , and I asked who she was . |
| 5 | I asked who was going to pay for the call . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought it was some weirdo and when I asked who was calling the voice yelled : ‘ It 's me ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Back there , ’ Arghatun gestured to his rear , ‘ when I asked who you were . |
| 8 | I mean I go , I go to some meetings , yeah and I asked who 's been burgled and all the hands shoot up . |
| 9 | Last time I asked who 'd come on from reading TSB , no one replied . |
| 10 | The person on the SIS switchboard was , I am sure , Liz of old , but when I announced who I was there was no acknowledgement of recognition on her part . |
| 11 | I was just silently congratulating myself on tumbling her secret at last when I realized who the man in the photograph was . |
| 12 | I realised who I was O K — I just could n't live inside the envelope . |
| 13 | A Coventry woman I met who had her child when she was eighteen said she had been " on the rock and roll " since she was sixteen . |
| 14 | This contrasts sadly with the experience of an elderly woman I met who suffered three bereavements in quick succession . |
| 15 | She had been tortured with electric shocks — as had every teenager I met who had been detained during the township unrest . |
| 16 | Naturally I recalled who they were at once — the hawkish profiles , the jet tangles of hair were doubly outlined as the window of their truck slid by mine . |
| 17 | The only survivor I interviewed who had not married and who had always worked , told me that she had only once been unemployed , for a period of 6 months , when she got a temporary job selling insurance . |
| 18 | I was the only one who could be charged with dereliction of duty , I Judged who I thought was the best : I selected them and then took them to my station — Warboys — where they were trained as Pathfinders . |
| 19 | I forgot the King , I forgot who I was , I forgot everything ! |
| 20 | ‘ He was an amalgam at the beginning , but then he became himself and I forgot who he was an amalgam of . |
| 21 | and if Leicester had beaten I forgot who it was , whoever they drew against , they would have been third . |
| 22 | She told me you left the station because someone arrived who could let your secrets out , and you could n't bear the shame . ’ |
| 23 | Soon I discovered who Sophie was . |
| 24 | I meant who was it that was saying that it does n't matter ? |
| 25 | When you spoke of this eagle I knew whom you meant for she was the last of our kind who carried wisdom in her wings . |
| 26 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
| 27 | Soon I knew who they were : Miles and Flora . |
| 28 | Ted was the only surfer I knew who read history between heats . |
| 29 | In fact he was the only surfer I knew who read — at least , anything other than surfing magazines . |
| 30 | A couple I knew who adopted three children found that only one of the three was at all interested in finding out about his natural parents . |