Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 It was the speed at which the decline occurred which led to wild suggestions that Britain was on the verge of a race suicide .
4 In this particular interview irony was continuously deployed against almost any remark other boys made which hinted at any involvement with the text .
5 He spat what looked like bloody phlegm into his paper hanky .
6 You saw that film , you saw what happened to that person .
7 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 .
8 In Monday 's Cutting Edge programme ( Channel 4 ) we witnessed what seemed like near anarchy .
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