Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this came what you could unfairly call the sting . |
| 2 | Another outlined what she saw as the consequences : |
| 3 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 4 | The Leningrad party leader Boris Gidaspov , a member of the Secretariat from 1990 onwards , placed most of his emphasis upon central control and discipline ; he was openly dismissive of ideas of ‘ people 's capitalism ’ and ‘ nonparty glasnost' ’ and in 1991 attacked what he described as the ‘ anti-democratic liquidationist movement ’ that was taking advantage of the weakness and indecision of the party leadership . |
| 5 | That showed what he knew . |
| 6 | It all underlined what I 'd always believed — that Famlio had grown to big , scattered and over-confident , and could be eluded by someone who was small , concentrated and clever . |
| 7 | Suddenly a dog flung itself at me snarling and growling and they all stopped what they were doing to look in my direction . |
| 8 | As she advanced into this room full of teenagers , pretending not to smell the rich aroma of Acapulco Gold , gracefully rippling the caftan of pink flowered silk which she considered appropriately hip casual wear , the kids all stopped what they were doing and collected admiringly around her . |
| 9 | After a new series of newspaper advertisements , for example , a firm can test a sample of the readership to ascertain how many readers noticed the advertisement , how many recalled what it said and how many had actually bought the product since reading it . |
| 10 | It all corroborated what they had already heard . |
| 11 | Cos we all knew what we were doing . |
| 12 | Fonda , Hopper and Nicholson all knew what they meant and they knew that most of the youngsters in the audience would know what they meant . |
| 13 | And Niall got up and said , music to my ears , that Erin 's soil was n't green either but we all knew what it meant … |
| 14 | WE ALL KNEW WHAT HE WAS UP TO AGES AGO |
| 15 | ‘ We all knew what he was up to ages ago , ’ says society columnist Taki Theodoracopulos . |
| 16 | They all knew what he thought should be done ; the Founders were on a ‘ disaster course ’ if they fudged it . |
| 17 | I mean he 'd he 'd use so often the experience of the people who were listening , so when a went down to , they all knew what he was talking about . |
| 18 | If they all knew what he was like , he 'd have nowhere to run . |
| 19 | Erm so , so really what er although when you came to summarize the needs I 've actually put good but too technical because we all knew what you were getting at but erm but to actually be doing that but not know at what point he needs to stop at or wants to stop it , you did n't know erm the pension that he wanted and you did n't know at what age he wanted to retire at that point you know , you , you had n't got any of those facts from him , you know |
| 20 | They all did what they had to do — a trip to Honduras again , via Madeira — and were safely back home on 11 June 1838 . |
| 21 | It was a hard act to follow , but the poor did what they could to provide respectable funerals for their dead . |
| 22 | When they all had what they needed she turned her attention to Annie . |
| 23 | Something permanent had clearly been created in Virginia and , shortly after coming to the throne in 1625 , Charles I did what he could to stabilize the situation by declaring it a royal colony and taking into his own hands the power to appoint the governor . |
| 24 | They each knew what they were bringing to the project . |
| 25 | They had this in common : each knew what it was to kill their father : knew the reality of it in their bones . |
| 26 | She first noted what she calls a ‘ plague mentality ’ enveloping discussion of Aids in 1984 , and conceived the Masque of the Red Death trilogy of albums ( completed in 1988 ) and the Plague Mass as a dramatic revenge on the inaction or malice of those in government and the church — or among the ‘ decent people ’ who were propagating the idea that a biomedical condition was a moral verdict . |
| 27 | I think it was René Descartes who first formulated what I have called ‘ the heat-pain argument ’ . |
| 28 | When Dannii ( as she likes to be known ) was seven she first learned what it was like to lose out to the star quality of her sister . |
| 29 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
| 30 | I used the term loosely , but Trippy knew what I meant . |