Example sentences of "of [Wh det] they [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young were living mostly in exile , but exile gave them possibilities of which they had seldom dreamed before . |
| 2 | Something better than that little house of which they had once spoken . |
| 3 | Contemporaries frequently commented upon this ideological transformation , accusing modern Whigs of acting on old Tory principles , and new Tories of practising the opposite of what they had formerly professed . |
| 4 | Very few witnesses had been found who were prepared to come to court to repeat their statements in the flesh , but some did and their words were translated first into English and then into German , causing some confusion as to the precise meaning of what they had actually said . |
| 5 | They had lost significance for her yet still had the power to bring her to the verge of tears , reminding her of what they had once meant : of one Easter when the scent had been a gift , of autumn afternoons when she had taken her baby in a pushchair from one to another of the now disappeared junk shops , buying Victorian china , pieces of old lace and old books , looking forward to the future . |
| 6 | Then showing them the results of what they 've actually done . |
| 7 | The Tories , and their ruling-class supporters , wish to keep the ordinary worker from knowing what the substance of this social chapter is , how it really just gives more backing to much of what they have already gained through industrial struggles for nearly 200 years , and the extension of these rights to every worker , especially the more isolated ones . |
| 8 | 5 When children are asked for free recall of what they have just read , ( advocated by Goodman , 1969 ) , younger children often read a difficult passage fluently , but are unable to tap the different levels of meaning ( see below ) . |
| 9 | And you got to know all these things , you got to know the peculiarities of what they liked best doing you see , and everything like that . |