Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] did [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But should go to another factory and er hold your own in the factory you could expect to get the full money , which I did at twenty one . |
| 2 | , he 's probably widdleing nothing , poor that was n't worth sitting down for , no to think that once I 've gone on , which I did on Friday , I 'm now on my way out the other end |
| 3 | I was particularly interested in creating deep blues in the sea areas , which I did by mixing up different strengths of ultramarine blue . |
| 4 | The upshot of this long sessions was that Eliot asked me to send him all the relevant documents , which I did in a letter of 20 May . |
| 5 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |
| 6 | Zak had got round the pre-empted Pierre-hitting-Raoul-to-the-ground routine by having Donna slap Raoul 's face instead , which she did with a gusto that brought gasps from the audience . |
| 7 | People I had n't yet identified beckoned her eagerly to join them , which she did with the ravishing smile she had loosed once or twice in my direction . |
| 8 | Granny decided to dismount which she did with some difficulty on account of.having to keep her frock pulled down to hide her torn drawers . |
| 9 | I waited with hovering impatience for Nell to arrive , which she did at length in a straight black skid ( worse and worse ) with a prim coffee blouse and unobtrusive gold earrings . |
| 10 | Only one rider , a slightly built girl called ‘ Evelyn ’ , was considered to be sufficiently capable to ride this powerful and frightening horse , which she did to the admiration and applause of everyone watching . |
| 11 | Finch encouraged her to talk about Sam , which she did to nervous excess , while Barrett made innumerable cups of tea and coffee . |
| 12 | She looked to the young man as if for reassurance , and he smiled back and nodded for Ellie to go on in , which she did without , much to her surprise , suddenly finding herself sitting upright at home in bed , clutching her thin bedding around her and wondering how her mind could imagine such things . |
| 13 | Yes really it 's just supporting or confirming what Mr said , which we did as part of the Southern Ryedale Local Plan , we contacted British Rail , and they were not averse to the reopening of stations on the York Scarborough line , providing they were funded by private investment . |
| 14 | Anyway , it did n't get anywhere and the first record we released with David was ‘ You 've Got a Habit of Leaving ’ , which we did at IBM Studios in Portland Street . |
| 15 | Every other committee , or part of this county council has , with the exception of probation service which we did today , social services and libraries which we did at budget revue , have been funded at last year 's cash limit plus one and a half percent . |
| 16 | His aim was to beat the weather and bowl them out again , which we did for 40 , thereby winning by an innings . |
| 17 | Our orders were to keep a low profile while keeping watch on the yacht which we did for about twenty four hours . |
| 18 | Then we did things like ‘ Love You Till Tuesday ’ which we did with a huge orchestra , as I recall , which was done in another studio . |
| 19 | When I had finished , and when we had counted the money in the hat ( which we did round the corner , discreetly ) , I realized that four songs had earned us enough to pay for a proper meal , each , in a cheap restaurant . |
| 20 | There s not much in the way of creation to be done against a blanket defence … all you can do is try to get behind them by getting it wide … which we did until the final ball . |
| 21 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 22 | The fellowship meant Jane and I could get married , which we did in July 1965 . |
| 23 | Once I did this without looking where I was going and went straight into the backs of nine armourers who were ambling towards the Mess for supper , and had to be disentangled from my machine , picked up and dusted off , which they did with all the gleeful enthusiasm which Thursby reserved for drawing his heavy black frontal lines on our neatly drawn charts . |
| 24 | Informed of this impasse , Mr Baker instructed the civil servants to go away and sort it out , which they did with admirable diplomacy . |
| 25 | Melissa , struggling to follow the staccato bursts of speech that punctuated their intake of food , was so fascinated by their mannerisms that more than once she lost the thread of what they were saying and had to beg them to speak more slowly , which they did with great good humour and shrieks of tinny laughter . |
| 26 | An even more important feature was that many Europeans came not to administer but to settle permanently , which they did on a large scale in Kenya and Zimbabwe , smaller numbers also being found in Zambia and Tanzania . |
| 27 | Because she knew she swelled and paled , in the grip of her look , she smiled even more and then invited them to start talking about their plans for their future home , which they did at once , and ceased to notice her . |
| 28 | Upon this nucleus of troops , the reconstituted 5th Indian Division formed up to hold the infamous Ridge , which they did through Rommel 's critical Alam Halfa offensive at the end of August . |
| 29 | The Railway was purchased by The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Preservation Society , formed by people who wished to re-open the line , which they did in 1968 . |
| 30 | The Scots were also the first home union to introduce a fully competitive league programme , which they did in season 1973/74 . |