Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 But more immediately on his doorstep is continuing unrest among backbenchers who so nearly brought about his downfall last Wednesday .
2 Decisions were made at the top , by monarch , Council , or minister , not , as in a modern bureaucracy , by officials in the lower and middle echelons , who then mostly carried out routine tasks .
3 One of his gunners , FS Cameron , who oddly enough baled out from two aircraft whose captains , ultimately , were posthumously awarded the VC , has his portrait in that magnificent War Museum at Canberra .
4 I 'll tell you a lovely story when we had the Queen at the day before when we had had the dress rehearsal I 'd been out to erm London to pick erm up an old lady who 's now dead , who very seldom got out and was pretty well house-bound to come and see the rehearsal as a little Sunday treat
5 He is , in his creator 's words , ‘ an absolute drop-out who never really dropped in ’ .
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