Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they 're ready to go back to the wild , to a special purpose built set in Yorkshire which will be protected . |
| 2 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 3 | Aggie had explained to Ben what had turned out to be the reason for their invitation to tea ; and now she broke into his silence by saying , ‘ Well ! |
| 4 | By the time she had explained to Pepe what had happened she began to feel dizzy and steadily more nauseous . |
| 5 | Eva had heard from Dad what a poet among builders Ted was . |
| 6 | Keynes had isolated the factors determining the levels of output and employment and had pointed to policies which could be implemented to achieve a state of full employment . |
| 7 | The collapse of part of the roof had let in air which intensified the conflagration . |
| 8 | She was afraid she would have a defective child because she had seen in Angharad what could happen in her husband 's family . |
| 9 | No one was permitted to build outside the city wall — indeed it would have been more or less impossible given the sheer drop to the plain — and as a result the ever-industrious Kinsani merchants had expanded in directions which were not forbidden by the law . |
| 10 | Following TODAY 's campaign , it was understood yesterday that the Attorney General had called for papers which would enable him to consider the case . |
| 11 | The meeting took place against a background of disputes over ( i ) the extent to which whale populations had recovered to levels which permitted sustainable hunting ; ( ii ) the system by which hunting quotas might be determined ; and ( iii ) whether whale killing was inherently unethical . |
| 12 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 13 | At last his father had put into words what Frank had known instinctively lay between them . |
| 14 | He had put into words what they all knew . |
| 15 | Stirling himself was driving a hybrid vehicle that he had obtained in Cairo which became known as the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ . |
| 16 | I had discovered in Egypt what seemed like a different religion : a thing of unimaginable heights and depths , of light and shadow with none of the vertiginous darkness of which Lili had spoken . |
| 17 | By the time the second local meeting took place on Wednesday 28 February 1990 at Myshall , concern over the mining had hardened into opposition which was strongly expressed . |
| 18 | If only she had realized in time what was happening . |
| 19 | It was the trading contacts that he had established in Spain which enabled his firm , after his death , to exploit so efficiently the opportunities afforded in South America after its liberation from Spanish control . |
| 20 | I got paid for August which was quite clever really cos my date would of been sort of half way through to book my holiday |