Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , when I look at the pictures of the car after the crash , with the passenger-side floor sill and roof crumpled and distorted and my seat moved forward — which helped trap me in the car — I wonder whether we chose the car on the correct criteria . |
| 2 | On wet days at Great Casterton we took it in turns to lecture , and on one of them I offered to talk about the Fosse Way as a Roman military frontier , a subject which had intrigued me from my work at Lincoln . |
| 3 | I could n't see his face any more with its closed , guarded expression which had kept me from going towards him ; now he was just a figure in a doorway , a symbol of home-coming . |
| 4 | They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another . |
| 5 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 6 | This was , I thought , the letter — the letter which had brought me on my journey and which seemed about to change my life . |
| 7 | It was that sense which had brought me to Munding , which had set me hunting the Green Man in the woods . |
| 8 | The displacement looked to be of considerable extent , much larger than the chunk of 2020 which had brought me to 1816 , or the chunk of some mysterious medieval land which had arrived earlier on my front doorstep . |
| 9 | It had begun to rain , the same sad summer drizzle which had greeted me at Kings Cross . |
| 10 | For what had visited me in my weakest hour and provided me with food if not that damned creation of Frankenstein 's ? |
| 11 | What had abhorred me in the past and sometimes , er , perhaps arrive and been to the church and say , oh by the way it 's communion ! |