Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh det] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare baked nothing that could be found at the local baker and charged what she considered exorbitant prices , which people seemed happy to pay in cash . |
| 2 | After becoming a socialist in the early 1880s he retained what he called ‘ an Englishman 's wholesome horror of government interference and centralisation . ’ |
| 3 | Then I provided what I hoped to be the optimum conditions for healthy growth — perfect drainage . |
| 4 | When we described what we wanted to do , he said , ‘ That 's totally impossible . |
| 5 | The two policemen took statements from the servants about the last known moments of the occupants of the manor , and from Seb , Tom and Carrie , who described what they had seen as they approached the manor house the previous night . |
| 6 | Corbett leaned forward and described what he had seen . |
| 7 | A young messenger-boy for the Post Office described what he thought brought youths to Highbury . |
| 8 | She referred to one pupil 's piece of writing which described what he thought he had learned in the first session with the advisory teacher : |
| 9 | The playwright St John Ervine was standing nearby and described what he saw to the Daily Mail : |
| 10 | The first Westerner to enter Basra was a former US Attorney General , Ramsay Clark — a veteran anti-war campaigner — who toured the city on Feb. 5-6 , and described what he saw there as " a human and civilian tragedy " . |
| 11 | Van der Pool described what he called the ‘ ageing ’ process in direct files , pointing out that performance degrades over time due to additions , even if the packing density does not change . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A report released during The Other Economic Summit ( TOES ) — which grouped together non-governmental organizations concerned with environment and development issues — listed what it called G7 's " failure to address nine crucial issues : atmosphere and energy , species and habitats , water and oceans , transport , land-use , agriculture , waste , global relations and the public right to know " . |
| 14 | The next morning the newspapers headlined what I thought was a completely different ‘ anti-Europe ’ speech . |
| 15 | Ashley stopped whatever he had been going to say next with a humourless laugh . |
| 16 | Bunny buried his face in his beer and I only just caught what he said over the noise from the band . |
| 17 | It has been starved of funds , and leading politicians with the power to do something about it have done little or nothing , apparently content as long as the radio reported what they wanted it to report . |
| 18 | In the CI5 computer room , Bodie reported what he had found out about the girl to Cowley . |
| 19 | The notion that the Jews were philosophers recurs in a book about India by Megasthenes who was an ambassador to that country on behalf of Seleucus I in about 293 and who reported what he had seen . |
| 20 | This technique not only combated the problem of contrast , which autochrome plates did not handle very well , but it also created what he described as a wonderful three dimensional effect when projected . |
| 21 | This technique not only combated the problem of contrast , which autochrome plates did not handle very well , but it also created what he described as a wonderful three dimensional effect when projected . |
| 22 | This view is reinforced by the writings of some of the early church fathers such as St John Chrysostom , who observed that there was no conflict over natural common property such as air , sun , water , earth , sea , light and stars or even man-made common property such as baths , cities , markets and arcades , but only over private property which created what he termed that frigid expression ‘ Thine and Mine ’ . |
| 23 | This was to be his most important contribution towards the new Foreign Office , but throughout the whole campaign , he unswervingly pursued what he considered to be the ideal solution to the problem . |
| 24 | Jaq noted how wistfully Grimm regarded what he rated as gourmet ambrosia disappearing into the monster 's maw remorselessly . |
| 25 | Theodora reviewed what she knew about the Society of St Sylvester . |
| 26 | In the aft compartment they went through the routine exercise of listening to the remaining six missiles and found what they had expected , nothing . |
| 27 | The horse still searched desperately for a footing in the soft , moving earth of the cliff-side and Maggie felt that every bone in her body was jarred as the flying hoofs found what they sought . |
| 28 | I was living at my folks and then my parents found what they thought was a lump of cannabis in my pocket . |
| 29 | American dowsers Terry Ross and Sig Lonegren found what they described as ‘ energy leys ’ : these were also dead straight , could be dowsed , and might or might not correspond to an actual physical ley on the ground . |
| 30 | The jury was told that inside the house police found what they called an LSD factory capable of producing millions of pounds worth of the drug . |