Example sentences of "[Wh det] [ex0] [vb past] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironic compliments were paid to Pierre , Donna and Raoul for the potency and effect of their acting and Raoul played for sympathy and looked nobly forgiving , holding a handkerchief to his nose and peering at it for blood , of which there seemed to be not much . |
| 2 | Friends were having repeated trouble with their telephone , for which there seemed to be no obvious reason . |
| 3 | And all that was left was a silent man who was imprisoned still by a numbness born of horror and years of fear , tormented by the simple question to which there seemed to be no answer : why , through all the hell he had seen , had he survived ? |
| 4 | Large British forces had been tied up in an expensive operation to which there seemed to be no obvious military solution other than counter-guerrilla operations in Sabah and Sarawak and the deployment of large forces to discourage further escalation of the conflict . |
| 5 | But the months of separation from her husband , and the events those months contained , came to mark a fundamental breach in their relationship , after which there ceased to be any hope that their early married happiness could be recovered . |
| 6 | On both occasions they identified an identical group with a low maximum acceleration in which there appeared to be a much increased risk of early cardiac death . |