Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fit and healthy 10 year old , he was playing in the lounge with his brother when he fell on a knitting needle , which pierced his neck and punctured his spinal cord . |
| 2 | Pulled from the river with her nightdress apparently wound around her head , she provided Magritte with an image which haunted his art and inspired the long and diverse series of compositions in which the head is concealed by a veil or an apple , metamorphosed into a plank of wood , or shown only from the back view . |
| 3 | His most enduring memory , which haunted his imagination for much of the inter-war period , was of his time as a nineteen-year-old officer in 1918 when he led an action to capture enemy trenches at Epehy . |
| 4 | Its first concern is the phenomenon which , years earlier , had so intrigued Hobbes , and which engendered his interest in motion : the phenomenon of sense . |
| 5 | His friends put two and two together , and so did the media , which beseiged his home by telephone and helicopter . |
| 6 | Camra is also worried by proposals from the Dutch brewers Heineken and their rivals , the makers of Grolsch , to buy into the makers of Pilsner Urquell ( Original ) , based in the Czech town which lent its name to the brewing process . |
| 7 | In this illustration the personal sector channelled its surplus of £500 million to the financial sector ( banks , insurance companies , building societies , etc. ) and the remaining funds originated from the foreign sector which lent its £1,000 million surplus derived from the excess of its exports over imports . |
| 8 | The madman shook his head and stared at the bear but Athelstan saw him blink away the tears which pricked his madcap eyes . |
| 9 | Even councils which modernised their trams in the 1930s , such as Glasgow and Leeds , abandoned them in the 1950s . |
| 10 | There is a bull ring , now secured in a stone block resting on the verge near the church , which is a reminder of the baiting which entertained our ancestors , and a sun-dial strangely set into the top of a small upright coffin-shaped stone in the churchyard . |
| 11 | I simply stared into her eyes through the layer of toughened glass which divided her world from mine . |
| 12 | Lord Rawdon told the Committee of the whole House of Lords , which read his bill clause by clause in May , that he thought a debtor should be able to swear to the real cause of his debt and , if there was no question of fraud or any intention to abscond , he should not be held in custody for more than eight days and be discharged on filing common bail . |
| 13 | She smiled at the decent , hard-working housewives like Sairellen Thackray — too busy to smile back at her — who were scouring their doorsteps with pumice stone and polishing their door-knockers ; waging war to the death — their own , quite likely — against soot from the mill chimneys which attacked their washing lines ; against foul air and foul water which attacked the bodies of their children ; against bad housing , bad weather , a spell of bad trade when a reduction in a husband 's wages could cause their whole , grimly constructed edifice to crumble . |
| 14 | Clive Wearing has no short-term memory , the result of a virus which attacked his brain , and he needs twenty-four-hour care and attention . |
| 15 | Apparently without Eliot having been warned , the poet Emmanuel Litvinoff read a poem which attacked his attitude towards the Jews . |
| 16 | The Workers ' Party conference had also confirmed the continued existence of the Official Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) , which ceased its campaign in Northern Ireland in 1972 , at which time its political wing , Official Sinn Féin , changed its name to the Workers ' Party . |
| 17 | Its design and construction were handed to the Bristol Aircraft Company , which designated it model 167 . |
| 18 | It 's hard to imagine that the smart two-seater started out as a Triumph Herald which failed its MoT . |
| 19 | He also became a great favourite with the occupants of the local school bus , which passed his garden gate twice daily . |
| 20 | Wright burrowed busily in the loose and he and Andy Vincent gave Boro the solid platform in the scrum which produced their victory . |
| 21 | There are obviously many reasons for the conjunction of forces which produced its institutions and these must include the Reithian spirit ( described above ) , a political system secure enough to grant broadcasting a relatively free hand and the absence ( or the negation ! ) of deep social divisions . |
| 22 | An example is William McDougal 's correspondence with Friendly Societies which revealed their discrimination against deaf people , and eventually led to the acceptance of the deaf and dumb on equal terms with hearing people by the Church Benefit Society . |
| 23 | On other occasions , both before and shortly after that visit , you made work which revealed your enthusiasm for other American interests : its space programme , its fashion , Detroit , Kennedy and Hollywood . |
| 24 | He then wrote two dignified pamphlets , The Victims of Whiggery ( 1837 ) and The Church Shown Up ( 1838 ) , which revealed his commitment to a moderate , anti-Anglican radicalism . |
| 25 | The invaders assembled at Stornoway were now divided by a bitter quarrel over whether or not they should move on to the mainland , only ended when one of the Earl Marischal 's supposed subordinates , William Murray , Marquis of Tullibardine , suddenly produced a commission granted to him two years before by James which appointed him Commander-in-Chief of all his forces in Scotland . |
| 26 | Her brother was standing by the window , looking across the yard to the single-storey extension which housed his father 's office . |
| 27 | Rodrigo strove mightily not to offend his Moorish subjects , especially in Valencia which became his base of operations over the succeeding months . |
| 28 | Wilson first went to Yunan , to meet the collector Augustine Henry for details of Davidia localities , then up to Ichang , which became his headquarters , and he collected Davidia material in Hupeh . |
| 29 | Crawford also gave Frank a funny voice and walk , as well as a black beret and Army raincoat , which became his trademarks . |
| 30 | In 1870 he persuaded Queen Victoria to let him , in addition , the substantial White Lodge in Richmond Park which doubled his household expenses . |