Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [verb] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first record of the term ‘ long-firm fraud ’ which Levi uncovers was in a journal of 1869 , while the obtaining of goods under the false pretence that one had an honest and solvent business is an activity with a much longer history . |
| 2 | The final , symbolic point on which Branson relented was in giving Oldfield an increased royalty on all future sales of Tubular Bells . |
| 3 | Another sneeze dawned and he reached yet again for his handkerchief , an object which Milton felt was about as disgusting as anything he had ever seen outside the occasional severed head in a motorway accident . |
| 4 | The drivers were Ch'kassians : small olive-skinned men from an island country which Hodai said was on the other side of the Inner Sea . |
| 5 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 6 | What Owen wanted was to be in and out fast . |