Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [verb] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lost a sodden pair of boots and socks , and William 's day bag , which I 'd borrowed for a rucksack . |
| 2 | And that 's called erm er a special word which I 've forgotten for the moment . |
| 3 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 4 | Now , generally speaking wi I I I 've act what I 've done for the re-sit paper is that I I pooled a load of questions , some of which went to the first paper and some of which went to the ne and some of which went to the re-sit paper so I do n't know which topics are coming up erm on the re-sit paper . |
| 5 | Do you know I 've just realized that your curtains are nearly like what I 've ordered for the bedroom . |
| 6 | This conditioning idea , absent in the that-clause construction , is what I believe accounts for the less factual tone of the infinitival structure : explicitly evoking one 's knowledge as the condition allowing one to assert something ( rather than flatly stating one 's awareness of a fact ) tends to suggest that what one is saying is a personal opinion rather than a matter of objective fact . |
| 7 | All I know is what I have known for the past two years : there is no reason at all for the blindness . |
| 8 | ‘ I never knew what I wanted to do for a living . |