Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | who 'd just started working for them and he w he did n't look |
| 2 | Another layer of guilt was added for brighter children who acclimatised sufficiently to start pulling ahead of their classmates . |
| 3 | There were , of course , plenty of people who did not view catching a plane at the shriek of dawn , fighting for a patch of sand big enough to spread a handkerchief , suffering appalling hangovers from over-indulgence in Spanish ‘ champagne ’ , and arriving home burnt to a painful scarlet wearing a ridiculous hat and clutching a straw donkey too big to stand on the television , as travel . |
| 4 | There is a high incidence among high earners , the unemployed , separated men , those with 10 or more partners , and people who did not enjoy losing their virginity . |
| 5 | ‘ I think my parents were just the sort of people who did not like staying in one place for very long . |
| 6 | Acquired a companion who did n't stop talking for 5 or 6 miles — was n't even female ! |
| 7 | Jeremiah comes across as a very sensitive man , who did n't like taking a message which was being ignored . |
| 8 | They wanted to hug , cuddle , kiss , make daisy chains and watch the ducklings running on the surface of the lake , but one was told to grow up and pay back the beastly Jews who were wicked people and had put daddy Schicklgruber out of work , another that anyone who did n't enjoy riding bare back across Asia splitting skulls was a sissy , the third that all Mensheviks carried a knife up their sleeve and needed purging . |
| 9 | This brought them a very high class of customer who did n't mind paying over the odds for something that little bit naughtier . |
| 10 | There she might find someone who did n't mind employing a traveller to clean out a stable or a pig-sty , or perhaps a kindly old woman might give her a crust . |
| 11 | He pushed that from his mind , and his mind filled instead with the face of a lad on a bicycle who 'd once been friendly , and the face of another who did n't mind playing Find the Penny in the hut on the golf-course . |
| 12 | And Rufus , who did n't mind appearing ingenuous in this area , said , ‘ I thought all firearms worked like that . ’ |
| 13 | He was supported by David Buckley , who did n't consider using a consultant accountant as a weakness of management but as a strength . |
| 14 | I pushed by a couple of drunks who had just appeared bearing the same bottle of Hirondelle they 'd been using to get into parties all year and made my way upstairs . |
| 15 | Some of its humour happened to remind him of his friend Mike Nichols , who had just begun making a career directing plays on Broadway with the hit Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park and Murray Schisgal 's Luv . |
| 16 | The headmaster , who had just finished dispensing multiracial condescension to Mr Patel and was now turning gratefully to Dr and Mrs Frome , gazed with ill-disguised apprehension in the direction of Mr McWhirter . |
| 17 | As she turned away , Rona , who had just finished serving , came and stood in front of him . |
| 18 | The Hereford , Hay and Brecon Railway was completed by Welsh contractor Thomas Savin — who had just finished building the main line through Welshpool — and opened in stages between 1863 and 1864 . |
| 19 | These were men who had just finished fighting a global war — a war which , it must be remembered , Britain had won — and global habits of mind naturally persisted . |
| 20 | She turned to the stranger who had just finished talking to a mechanic who was now giving her car the once-over . |
| 21 | This attitude was by no means confined to educated sceptics ; it was probably even more marked among the urban proletariat , who had largely abandoned churchgoing and were alienated from the established Church , which they identified with a repressive economic and social system . |
| 22 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 23 | They were beyond sense , and later , much later , when he met her mama and papa , who had not gone shopping after all , but were sitting patiently in Uncle Orrin 's drawing-room , and later still when Uncle Orrin and Aunt Nella arrived , and they all had luncheon together , the lovers ' happiness was so patent that Jared Tunstall thought that his wilful daughter had found her true love at last . |
| 24 | Alida Thorne , who had not finished eating , listened , her thick jaws chomping up and down , her back turned just perceptibly to Dorothea . |
| 25 | She was , after all , only a young woman of twenty , who had not finished growing up . |
| 26 | It was made by the famous Boulting Brothers , who had already begun ridiculing national institutions in comedies such as Brothers In Law , Lucky Jim and I 'm All Right , Jack . |
| 27 | Tom placed a bowl beside his feet , which was filled with scraps of meat and biscuits for Sammy who had already started chewing the end of one of the socks . |
| 28 | Probably just checking to see we were O.K. Now it all made sense and I thought back to all the others who had suddenly stopped visiting : Cathy , Victoria , Jean . |
| 29 | He glanced at Willie who had now finished writing . |
| 30 | I had been badgering the tour 's publicist for an interview with Scotty , who had apparently arrived toting his original Ray Butts amplifier with built-in tape echo , but things were n't looking too hopeful . |