Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This no doubt explains one of Hudson 's tests on the schoolboys , which asked them to write a description of a scientist 's wife , and a novelist 's wife , not a novelist 's husband . |
| 2 | The less agreeable side of Mathilde 's nature revealed itself in her tendency to what the French call l'esprit démolisseur , a sort of wilful destructiveness , which led her to become a focus for the intellectually disaffected during the Empire . |
| 3 | In Joan Wake 's book The Brudenells of Deene one reads that ‘ not the least of John , Duke of Montagu 's many attractive qualities was a love for animals , which led him to maintain a hospital for sick dogs at his house in Ditton Park in Buckinghamshire ’ . |
| 4 | He pulled on a pair of folding sunglasses ( the sort you pay an extra load for to have ‘ Porsche ’ stamped across your field of vision ) as he made for the driver 's door , but even with them and the soft brown leather blouson jacket , which made him look a bit like an off-duty copper ( they get them cheap down Brick Lane ) , I still recognized him . |
| 5 | The story was n't exactly all over the front page , but it started there with photographs of Mercer and Bambi and continued inside , with a glamorous back-lit formal shot of Xanthe , which made her look a lot older than her published age , fifteen . |
| 6 | There followed an unseemly dispute between the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , who owned the freehold , and the City , which believed it had a lease in perpetuity . |
| 7 | I managed to get a charity bursary , which allowed me to take a degree at London University . |
| 8 | The marriage which followed it took a fraction of the time — about three minutes . |
| 9 | The Corporation was required by the law which established it to operate a broadcasting station as ‘ a means of education , information and entertainment for the public and to develop the service to the best advantage of the territory ’ . |
| 10 | I had visited Paris once or twice , but now I was fortunate enough to secure a grant from the LCC — £15 , but princely for those days — which permitted me to spend a week or two there for the purpose of study , my subject being modern French philosophy . |
| 11 | The study by Arnoult ( 1953 ) , mentioned in the preceding section of this chapter , included a condition in which the subjects were tested not on a discriminative motor task but on a task which required them to make a judgement about whether two stimuli presented together were the same as or different from one another . |
| 12 | He was the only man in the class , which meant he got a lot of attention . |
| 13 | We were in soft class which meant you had a bed to sleep on — a sort of cot . |
| 14 | They now provided Sukarno with a vehicle for polemic and controversy which enabled him to regain a place in the public eye . |
| 15 | In 1987 the new vice-president won a travel award from the US Department of Agriculture to the USA which enabled him to spend a month studying cereal production , the uses of cereals and the way in which arable farming is supported . |
| 16 | He did not hit a crisp drive but recovered with an excellent three wood which enabled him to secure a birdie four to Frost 's par . |
| 17 | For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed . |
| 18 | Signe had cooked a fish with a sloppy skill which enabled her to read a pulp magazine and prepare dinner simultaneously without having anything burn or boil over . |
| 19 | They also persuaded him to sign a declaration stating that he had been cautioned , which enabled them to obtain a set of fingerprints . |
| 20 | The station which persuaded him to make a comeback says it ca n't believe its luck . |
| 21 | Now 31 , Foster is fortunate to be playing cricket at all after several knee operations , the most recent of which forced him to miss a slice of last season and the start of The possibility of his breaking down at any time can not be ignored and neither can his undistinguished international record at Lord 's . |
| 22 | It was in honour of that adventure which left him facing a crown court appearance on Monday that Whitby Folk Club held the shanty event last week . |
| 23 | What led you to think a tragedy might have occurred ? ’ |
| 24 | What possessed you to ask a screwball question like that ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ What did we need a television set for ? ’ demands Howard wonderingly . |
| 26 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |