Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Department stated : ’ In anticipation of the proposed revision to the regulation , in some parts of the country ’ — the Minister has mentioned this — ’ campaigns were organised which resulted in non-specific applications for review on a scale which would have flooded the benefit system . ’ |
| 2 | These phrases do , however , have the ring of truth in an aesthetic sense — or rather there was an aesthetic process involved which had to some extent its own story . |
| 3 | However , our experience was that the very week that our new church planting team began to meet , with such rosy hopes , a violent row between two families occurred which resulted in one couple leaving the team and the church . |
| 4 | It was the speed at which the decline occurred which led to wild suggestions that Britain was on the verge of a race suicide . |
| 5 | But I must admit I 've got to know what happened with that goal , or free kick in |
| 6 | Unfortunately this is the way the Tory always play their ploys on Highfield , they always think they are the champions of Highfield issue unfortunately they do not know what transpired in that area , they do not know the deprivation in that area . |
| 7 | The Soviet government is still nervous of letting the world know what happened to these people . |
| 8 | We will never know what happened during that operation because , like most English people , we suffer from excessive politeness with figures of authority and we do n't question or harass them when their explanations seem superficial . |
| 9 | In this particular interview irony was continuously deployed against almost any remark other boys made which hinted at any involvement with the text . |
| 10 | In the shallows several men were pushing what looked like triangular bamboo ploughs through the water . |
| 11 | The cupola turned out to be a kind of gigantic cauldron erected high in one corner of the building where she had earlier noticed what looked like volcanic lava trickling downwards . |
| 12 | They did n't realize that 's how the Spanish Armada was described and look what happened to that lot . ’ |
| 13 | Subsequently a more sophisticated interpretation historicized this account , describing what happened to popular music in the late 1950s and early 1960s in terms of the incorporation or co-option of rock 'n' roll into the repertoire of the hegemonic bloc . |
| 14 | All the energy and drive which gave to that campaign so electric a character in the first weeks of this year must find outlets for the same fundamental objectives in new , and yet familiar channels . |
| 15 | Jamila was wearing what looked like several sacks : long skirts , perhaps three , one over the other , and a long smock in faded green beneath which the flat arcs of her braless breasts were visible to the slightly interested . |
| 16 | When Laura came to stay , and swept into church in an Easter bonnet of her own devising which quivered with artificial lilac , and laughed out loud at a tiny joke in Peter 's sermon , to encourage him , one of the churchwardens wrote to the Bishop . |
| 17 | He remembers what happened to other people through all periods of recorded time — through what he has read and been taught . |
| 18 | I think it must have been Tom 's fear from the past , knowing what happened to black people who stepped out of line that made him so afraid to stick up for himself and stand his ground . |
| 19 | He spat what looked like bloody phlegm into his paper hanky . |
| 20 | You saw that film , you saw what happened to that person . |
| 21 | Punishment , Durkheim maintained , was neither corrective nor deterrent in intention ; it was a passionate reaction on the part of society which , in taking what amounted to collective revenge on the criminal , symbolically reaffirmed and restored the moral values and common loyalties which he had desecrated : symbolic lynching in which an outburst of punitive indignation against the criminal healed the injuries which he had inflicted on society . |
| 22 | Jean 's precocious bubble of confidence , which had earned her the attention of her parents , was replaced by a sense of guilt about what had happened which lasted into later life . |
| 23 | Out in the open firth a few gannets were flying about , watching for any fish movement and occasionally making what seemed like exploratory dives . |
| 24 | This was Ursula of the long blonde hair and double-barrelled baronial-barbaric surname ( withheld by Behrens ) , who had fled what survived of ancestral estates — on one view of the matter — and had made her courageous way across Europe , shot at and winged by border guards , to Vienna , and on to London , where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt . |
| 25 | By the end of the seventeenth century she already possessed what seemed to many contemporaries the most efficient diplomatic organization in Europe , one which had at its disposal able negotiators , plentiful funds , expert knowledge and the prestige of past success . |
| 26 | I just do n't want to be the kind of person who suddenly disappears and , in ten years , people say ‘ Hey , I wonder what happened to that guy ? ’ … when I 'm living in misery on a council estate or eating out of rubbish bins . ’ |
| 27 | We had to see what happened to these railways er is more people going to er to go by train , or are less going to go . |
| 28 | If the hon. Gentleman sends the evidence , we will examine it to see what happened in that case , and whether it is evidence of a larger problem . |
| 29 | This allows the meeting to ask questions , comment or review what happened at previous meetings and to check that decisions have been carried out , or that matters have progressed in the manner envisaged . |
| 30 | ‘ The police were using what seemed like heavy-duty rifles but they were in plain clothes and the cars were unmarked . ’ |