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

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1 All she could do was stare glumly at the sign hanging inside the door — CONFISERIE VASSOIR : Ouvert 9.30–18.30 Mardi à Samedi — then glance at her watch , which confirmed she was fifteen minutes too late .
2 The material which encased him was permeable foam and there was an air supply somewhere .
3 New printers had to be found , which ended It 's uneasy relationship with hot metal .
4 Samuel Hitch , a medical superintendant of the asylum , wanted to change the way the mentally ill were treated and founded the Royal college of psychiatrists , which held it 's inaugural meeting in the building 150 years ago .
5 I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche .
6 But there was a big loss of life as well , but what frightened me was this Germans coming over on Peedie bits of rafts and the men swimming in the sea and whatnot
7 What persuaded him were two bits of Temple 's mind which he could not mistake .
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