Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [noun] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staveley Works station was built over the Chesterfield Canal , and served Hollingwood and the Stanton & Staveley works which generated a good deal of freight traffic . |
| 2 | With his television news background and now intimate knowledge of Middle East drugs trafficking , Coleman helped Ross and Silverman prepare what was generally considered to be as balanced and authoritative a survey of narco-terrorism as the media had ever presented to the American public , a contribution which they both generously acknowledged on several occasions afterwards and which subsequently led to Coleman 's appearance on NBC News after the Flight 103 disaster , although neither of them were aware then or before of his DIA/NARCOG affiliations . |
| 3 | Alexander was born nearly four months early while Alison and husband took what they thought would be a final child-free holiday in Florida . |
| 4 | Alexander was born nearly four months early while Alison and husband took what they thought would be a final child-free holiday in to Florida . |
| 5 | Shortly before the joint statement was issued , Coopers & Lybrand became what is thought to be only the second US firm to file a countersuit against a former client . |
| 6 | There was no attempt by either Salisbury or Kilmuir to use what one might call a prefect 's influence on the opinion of those they interviewed . |
| 7 | Both Elaine and James wondered what the old man , dressed in an assortment of ill-fitting clothes , was talking about . |
| 8 | For TV , he or she will have to analyse the scheduled programmes both of ITV and BBC to determine which ITV programmes appear to be good buys , and which will be poor ones , in relation to the rate card . |
| 9 | In addition to discussing some delightfully way-out biological examples of iterated prisoner 's dilemmas , Axelrod and Hamilton gave what I regard as due recognition to the ESS approach . |
| 10 | Jackie , Rose and Sam knew what was going on but nobody else did . |
| 11 | They ferried plates to and fro from the kitchen , where Rose and Victorine supervised what was to come next . |
| 12 | There was more than one donkey-vous in the Ezbekiya but Owen knew which one to make for . |
| 13 | Sybil and Melissa mounted what had once been an imposing flight of steps flanked by tall white pillars and peered at the labels alongside the row of bell-pushes in a corroding brass frame affixed to the wall beside the front door . |
| 14 | In arguing against the notion that the family is the origin of society , Marx and Engels reverse what they had argued in their previous writing , but Maine 's version of the argument , which gives priority to private property , is even more opposed to their general position , and so it is not surprising that they reject Maine in favour of Morgan . |
| 15 | Emily and Mungo left what they were eating and rushed to join him . |
| 16 | Army bomb experts were called to ICI Wilton on Teesside when workers unearthed what appeared to be an unexploded wartime shell . |
| 17 | ‘ A couple of the high-ranking members like Parsons or Dashwood had what they liked to call ‘ Carriers ’ but that was it . |
| 18 | Neither Polybius nor Posidonius realized what superiority the Roman leaders acquired by the mere fact of being able to speak Greek , and to think in Greek , while the Greek leaders needed interpreters to understand Latin . |
| 19 | One farmer quoted by Curtin and Shields indicates what the company got away with : ‘ They were telling us what to do . |
| 20 | ‘ You know there are young people , even more meshuggeh than you — who used to be involved with drugs and being hippies in India and God knows what crazy stuff-until they met the Maggid and Returned to the Faith . |
| 21 | Only Shelley , Rosie and Miguel knew what a momentous day this was for them . |
| 22 | He tempted Mike Atherton into a rash hook before lunch then returned to break up a third wicket stand between Fairbrother and Nick Speak which had put Lancashire in complete command . |
| 23 | The Hatherley ball to raise money for a hospice charity had become an important even ; in Gloucestershire because Ayling did what people craved on such occasions : he brought them the rich and famous whom they usually saw only on their television screens or in their newspapers . |