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Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women .
2	But if any of the women folks which I 've gone out with a a bowl of soup to him many a time .
3	For instance , he has a new ball , which I 've warmed up in my pockets , every third hole , and I know all his likes and dislikes .
4	But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created .
5	It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence .
6	I stared wonderingly at the small , wax candle which I had thrown on to the floor of my chamber .
7	After this , I still found the problems of pragmatics a challenge , requiring the revision of the whole approach to language ( and particularly meaning ) which I had taken up to that time .
8	This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween .
9	The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant .
10	Millie would have been fiddling awkwardly with the thick brush of ginger hair coarser than her father 's , and even redder — that sprang away all round her face , while her cello case , which I had carried back for her , was no doubt propped up against one of the crumbling and gateless brick pillars in front of their house , like a portly little old man too out of breath to speak .
11	‘ They did , Michael , but they also liked the fact that our cellars connected with next door , which connected with next door to that , which I believe led out to the East River . ’
12	Therefore I do not see why tonight I might not occasionally , if the argument should lead that way , be guilty of saying in office some of the things which I have said out of office .
13	I recently bought a 4ft aquarium , which I have set up as a community tank .
14	It is clear from the more general observations which I have set out with regard to the actual concept of establishment within the meaning of the E.E.C .
15	He concluded — on broadly similar grounds to those which I have set out in this judgment — that the jurisdiction of the court was purely supervisory , or , in other words , that the decision of the local authority on the suitability of the accommodation provided could only be challenged by way of proceedings for judicial review .
16	Material which I have tried out in schools with different teachers has yielded fascinatingly different results .
17	I have what I believe to be a very important piece of information for marine fish keepers which I have picked up from the marine scene in the USA .
18	‘ There is one thing which nobody has picked up on yet , ’ confides Alex late in the evening .
19	So although we think that our method is best , we fully realize that you 've got styles , things th which you 've built up over many years .
20	These copies are staple check and you are the one which you 've gone back for apply erm I , I 'll with that one .
21	‘ Instead of which you 've ended up with a half-grown female in a hat like a tea-cosy .
22	Have there been any developments on the guitar synth front which you 've taken up for this album ?
23	If you are not living in the property ( or a part of it which you have let out for rent ) , then the house — or that section of it — is no longer considered to be your main home .
24	Almost desperately she sought solace in her own private ‘ pictures ’ , the programme she never tired of , which she had projected on to her drowsy mind countless times as she lay in bed before dropping off to sleep , or half-awake on Sunday mornings .
25	Mrs Baines , 54 , who represented the Darlington Gala Club , won the cup and £100 after she tossed her pancake 62 times in the competition in which she had dressed up as Minnie Mouse .
26	He flipped open the book whose pages were filled with her beautiful , careful script , which he had seen many times on the shopping lists which she had made up under Matey 's instructions .
27	They contained news of Rose , details of life in wartime Oswaldston , stories from her daily work in teaching , which she had gone back to .
28	It contained a bible , a penknife with a horn handle , a clay pipe , and the verse which she had written out for him two Christmases ago : ‘ For hearts of truest mettle , Absence doth join and time doth settle . ’
29	Sara carefully separated her gloves which she had rolled up into a ball .
30	She was not proud to have been the cause of splitting her family up ; nor could she forget how her father 's love had turned to disgust ; and how could she easily reveal the shame which she had brought down on the Wards ?