Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mummy blames herself for what happened . |
| 2 | Yet when he seeks refuge in history , other men 's deeds and words , Gerontion finds nothing with which he can connect , only vacancy , vanity , and inane deception : the emptiness of the uninspiring , fragment-bearing wind that blows through much of Eliot 's poetry . |
| 3 | And he 's at it again when Downes hits him with whatever 's to hand ; kills him ; wonders where he 's going to dump the corpse ; ca n't dress him — far too difficult dressing a corpse — ’ |
| 4 | You can include text , so that the prompt says something like What next , Fred ? |
| 5 | The door is closed to new members , and the membership protects itself against what it calls Proliferation with wire , guns , attack dogs , certainly , but above all with a suffocating cloak of secrecy . |
| 6 | The picture reminds me of what 's possible again , that 's all , not of what 's gone for ever . ’ |
| 7 | I have no idea what Satan 's personal appearance is like — if a spirit with virtually no personhood left can be said to have an appearance — but the divine drama knows him for what he is . |
| 8 | Lupus of Ferrières reveals something of what it was like to be within close range of Charles . |
| 9 | In many other cases it may be difficult to decide whether a signal is or is not deceptive ; but if the signal concerns something over which the animals are competing , it may evolve by an arms race of deception and the discovery of deception ; but if it concerns something over which the animals are co-operating , it may evolve to become more accurately informative . |
| 10 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 11 | God asks us for what we have , not what we do n't have . |
| 12 | But secular society has nothing upon which to build such a philosophy . |
| 13 | The church has nothing for which to apologize . |
| 14 | I can wait until Mme Wyatt sees me for what I am , understands what Gillian sees in me . |
| 15 | This road takes you through what I would say was the most savage landscape you are likely to see in the Pyrenees without actually setting off into the mountains on foot , a valley which has rocks where other valleys have trees . |
| 16 | This book shows something of what has emerged out of religious interpretations of death , not as a history of death but as an indication of what lies at the root of the major religious traditions , lending to each its characteristic style . |
| 17 | Consider two practical areas in which Hayek 's philosophy of the market order leads him into what I consider real problems : |
| 18 | The underlying position remains one in which most of the rural population i.e. three quarters of the total , is able to feed itself adequately , but has neither the surplus labour nor the technology to make big strides in productivity . |
| 19 | The right hon. Gentleman has done a great deal during his period in the House for disabled people and everyone in the House admires him for what he has done , but he must know that there have been dramatic improvements in recent years in the scope , range and value of benefits and in the number of disabled people who receive them . |
| 20 | When the original object of a wishful impulse has been lost as a result of repression , it is frequently represented by an endless series of substitute objects none of which , however , brings full satisfaction ’ ( vii . |