Example sentences of "[v-ing] [Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the shallows several men were pushing what looked like triangular bamboo ploughs through the water . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Out in the open firth a few gannets were flying about , watching for any fish movement and occasionally making what seemed like exploratory dives . |
| 8 | ‘ The police were using what seemed like heavy-duty rifles but they were in plain clothes and the cars were unmarked . ’ |