Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She later embellished it with a few words about my inability to dance again — which I 'd never indulged in — and proposed that the girls would be driven even further away . |
| 2 | When I became fully aware of this , I gave all of my fashionable new clothes to ‘ Oxfam ’ and fished out my old blue jeans and ‘ sloppy joe ’ jumper which I had nearly thrown out only a few weeks before . |
| 3 | This was an appointment which I had repeatedly put off but which at last I was being forced to keep . |
| 4 | One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him . |
| 5 | We had a short stop for refreshment , got out the pegs and the skyhook and secured an open krab onto the end of a three foot cheating stick ( which we had carefully hauled up all the way from the woods ) . |
| 6 | ‘ When she started to cry they offered to help wipe her eyes and used a piece of soiled paper which they had just picked up . |
| 7 | From the word go the crowd ( badly dressed , smelly , blank-faced and radiating tragedy ) greeted the bands with abuse and bottles of cider which they had feverishly pissed in . |
| 8 | In 1944 her son , Dr Istvan Csicsery-Rónay , prevailed on the Soviet commander to return the contents , with which he had just made off . |
| 9 | She had also been surprised at how easy she had found it to talk to him , about all the private , intimate failures and successes of her life ; fascinated to hear about his problems with the privately owned Wyndham International Banking Corporation , which he had recently taken over from his father . |
| 10 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 11 | He could not believe what he had just lived through . |
| 12 | That is a rare instance , in British literary annals , of a band of brothers achieving in broad terms , for a time , what it had once set out to do . |