Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow John forced or persuaded her to achieve what she had found impossible before and , more important , he also won from her a performance of quietly expressive lyricism . |
| 2 | Or did he know what my inclination was ? |
| 3 | Nor did they know what he looked like . |
| 4 | Nor did she know whose embrace she was seeking . |
| 5 | The offer , reported by the official ADN news agency , contained no date for such negotiations , nor did it specify which groups should take part . |
| 6 | Nor did he mean what he and Barth had joined in attacking in Schleiermacher and Liberal Theology ( Brunner being indeed far sharper and harsher against Schleiermacher than Barth ever was : Barth used to insist that only one who was capable of loving Schleiermacher was entitled to criticise him ) , namely the supplementing of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ by additional sources of a more general religious or ethical kind . |
| 7 | But she found hardly anyone who wanted to talk to her afterwards apart from an American girl who admired her frock , and asked her to guess what they had had for luncheon . |
| 8 | Later he called me to a meeting of the Executive Council and asked me to say what I thought the principles of the Department should be and how they could be implemented . |
| 9 | I ‘ hung ’ them and asked him to choose which one was best . |
| 10 | He altered that to , ‘ Can you put the light out , dear ? ’ when she bashed him with the book and asked him to repeat what he had said . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've seen him myself , or else hearing about it has put me in a special state of mind , and all the other factors have come up right , atmospheric conditions , combinations of light and dark , what you like , and made me create what I believed I was seeing . |
| 12 | When Rune successfully tried his luck at a shooting gallery and invited her to choose which prize she wanted , she selected a paperweight in the form of the Little Mermaid sitting on her rock . |
| 13 | The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be . |
| 14 | Ianthe had gone into a kind of day dream and found herself wondering what John did in the evenings . |
| 15 | Her handwriting was distinctly visible so I rewound the film and stopped it to see what she had written . |
| 16 | Harry looked at him then and thought he saw what it was that glimmered beneath the affable surface of his remarks . |
| 17 | It was only a few months ago , but it seemed like years , since the young girl , who kept herself to herself , and thought she knew what she wanted from life , unpacked them with secret glee . |
| 18 | And did you know what you were going to do when you left school ? |
| 19 | ‘ And when she noticed I had two other children with me she laughed and said she knew what a handful they could be . ’ |
| 20 | And said I wonder what 's the matter the next house next to me , she said I wi I I wondered if Penny come and live there , you know , from where she is now er |
| 21 | ‘ Sláinte , ’ she echoed , and hoped it meant what she thought it meant . |
| 22 | Robyn thought later as she stared at her reflection in the dressing-table mirror and forced herself to imagine what tomorrow 's meeting with Luke would actually feel like . |
| 23 | Foucard said : ‘ They were very thorough , your friends , but did they find what they were looking for ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't mind what they write about me , ’ she said , ‘ but did you see what Today said today ? |