Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloria closed the sliding door , pulled down the blinds , and switched off the six lamps which Dot had just put on . |
| 2 | But on the face of it , Borg is preeminent within that small category of sportsmen — they are almost invariably men , because women are at least offered an alternative role by Nature — whose existence seems entirely bound up with their success . |
| 3 | With reference to the loss of WF-495 in the Atlantic I can recall some newspaper comment about a fishing boat skipper , whose boat had actually trawled up the remains of one of the crew , returning the body immediately to the deep without much thought for the relatives or friends of the deceased . |
| 4 | We catch up with Sue , a 52-year-old mother of four — wearing pigtails and painted-on freckles — whose divorce has just come through . |
| 5 | Think of the mother whose child has just fallen over and grazed his knee — what does she do ? |
| 6 | ‘ We 're not there yet , because it 's not mathematically certain we can stay up , ’ insisted manager Ian Branfoot , whose team have now crept up to 17th place . |
| 7 | After all this is the woman whose husband has just run off with Felicity Kendal . |
| 8 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |