Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he was able to forecast accurately which women would develop the disease merely by knowing which midwife had been in attendance . |
| 2 | If only Nubenehem remembered it , then at least he could establish for certain which girl had been at the City of Dreams . |
| 3 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 4 | Cicero , whose stamina had been in doubt , could not keep his place and dropped away , but Bachelor 's Button and Pretty Polly — the mare on the stands side , her rival on the far side — were closing rapidly on the leader . |
| 5 | In 1830 a monk living in Bentota , a village on the south-western coast , singled out George Turnour , an Englishman whose career had been in Kandyan districts , as an unusual arbitrator in that he understood Sinhala . |
| 6 | Schimberni 's 10-year investment plan for the FS had also been received unfavourably by the Transport Minister Carlo Bernini , whose preference had been for a programme with greater emphasis on capital projects . |
| 7 | In Tolkien , by huge contrast , he met a man whose style had been with him from the beginning . |
| 8 | Among those who regarded Faustus as their spiritual master was Sidonius , whose brother had been in some way saved by the bishop . |
| 9 | For every Palestinian who expressed doubts about the worth of returning , there were hundreds who would go back to what is now Israel if they had the opportunity to do so , people like David Damiani , a Christian whose family had been in Palestine since the time of the Crusades . |
| 10 | At no. 52 lived Mr. Maton with his elderly spinster sister , a very quiet couple whose family had been in the house for almost two centuries . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , Ace hoped that Daak 's flamboyant display of aerobatics had dislodged whatever creature had been on the hull . |