Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I got paid for August which was quite clever really cos my date would of been sort of half way through to book my holiday |
| 2 | But on the question of competitive tendering I think mentioned by Mr which he says we should have a different attitude . |
| 3 | I had discovered in Egypt what seemed like a different religion : a thing of unimaginable heights and depths , of light and shadow with none of the vertiginous darkness of which Lili had spoken . |
| 4 | I have begun to Fence which is a man 's game and I am to have my uncle Sette 's foil when next we go to England which may be in the summer . |
| 5 | I have heard of mythagos which have succeeded , but they are part of the myth that says tumuli and fire guarded valleys are the way to the Otherworld . |
| 6 | I have kept to foods which I hope you will be able to find locally — there is no point in inspiring you with mouthwatering descriptions of cheeses available only in small mountain villages in the Alps ! |
| 7 | I have worked with leaders whose style is so totally different to my own that I have found it incomprehensible that they achieve results , but nevertheless they do . |
| 8 | I have talked about interpretation which is accommodating so that it yields implications for language teaching . |
| 9 | She was afraid she would have a defective child because she had seen in Angharad what could happen in her husband 's family . |
| 10 | By the time she had explained to Pepe what had happened she began to feel dizzy and steadily more nauseous . |
| 11 | If only she had realized in time what was happening . |
| 12 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 13 | So far , they have worked with data which is relatively easy to characterise and to discriminate . |
| 14 | If the directors do state their reasons the court will investigate them to the extent of seeing whether they have acted on the right principles and will overrule their decision if they have acted on considerations which should not have weighed with them , but not merely because the court would have come to a different conclusion . |
| 15 | This present body of work is the closest that he has come to understanding what it is that attracts him to travel . |
| 16 | This present body of work is the closest that he has come to understanding what it is that attracts him to travel . |
| 17 | Stirling himself was driving a hybrid vehicle that he had obtained in Cairo which became known as the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ . |
| 18 | It was the trading contacts that he had established in Spain which enabled his firm , after his death , to exploit so efficiently the opportunities afforded in South America after its liberation from Spanish control . |
| 19 | He had put into words what they all knew . |