Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] i [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to make one last attempt after which I would start looking for a place from where I could obtain a map of the city . |
| 2 | I grew a little apprehensive when she informed me that I would see witches and some ugly things , after which I would see my grandfather and other long-dead relatives . |
| 3 | How could I do that after what I 'd read in Billy 's bedroom ? |
| 4 | It is this issue , the interplay of ideas about gender and gender roles with the creation of discord or harmony in community relationships , about which I shall be concerned below . |
| 5 | The origin of the field is , in effect , the magnetic field at the source region of the wind , that is , the surface of the Sun , though this is an extremely complicated phenomenon about which I shall say very little . |
| 6 | Here in embryo is not only the issue of moral relativity , about which I shall have more to say in my next chapter , but also the sentimental concept of the Noble Savage . |
| 7 | At present , many new nation states are being created in Eastern Europe , and alongside this process there is also the development , perhaps , of a new kind of ‘ European nationalism ’ , about which I shall have more to say in the next chapter . |
| 8 | The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense . |
| 9 | She was scanning the windows of the ward above , and holding up a plastic shopping bag , through which I could discern two bottles of wine and several cartons of cakes and other goodies . |
| 10 | Pink-eyed and lachrymose , I returned to the lens boutique in the Earls Court Road ( on the cornea actually ) and complained bitterly that the lenses were a pair of over-priced disasters through which I could neither see nor play Neil Simon . |
| 11 | He showed me one , magnifying 520 times , made of yttrium-aluminium-garnet , an artificial gemstone , mounted against a microscope slide , through which I could clearly see the tadpole-shaped trypanosomes that cause sleeping sickness . |
| 12 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |
| 13 | Pink-eyed and lachrymose , I returned to the lens boutique in the Earls Court Road ( on the cornea , actually ) and complained bitterly that the lenses were a pair of over-priced disasters through which I could neither see nor play Neil Simon . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm pleased with the commercials I 've made , but I consider my photographs to be the medium through which I can express myself , ’ he says . |
| 15 | Though I might , in working for a different future , find the struggle of women politically inspiring , I am unlikely to find a community in which women were not counted equal a medium through which I can gain a glimpse of God . |
| 16 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 17 | It was a perfectly serious prophecy , for which I would have paid good money had I gone to one of the Haleiwa psychics . |
| 18 | There is so much to tell you but I will try and share some of the things for which I would appreciate your prayers . |
| 19 | For each of these I then evolved time-limited discussion structures applying to the subject of disruption a simple group interaction method ( for which I would make no claims of originality ) , a process intended to maximize the chances of ‘ on-task ’ participation leading to clear definition and appreciation of areas of agreement and divergence and needs for further analysis or action . |
| 20 | The earliest we could start work would be the 19th September , for which I would need to put out a call during August . |
| 21 | So he experienced society from the bottom up , before talent and determination made room at the top for him : ‘ That was a most valuable bit of education for which I shall always be grateful both to my bourgeois ancestry as well as to the regime , ’ he was to say later . |
| 22 | By the next letter : ‘ I am planning a large and sumptuous ballet on fisherman and his soul , for which I shall use the Moussorgsky . ’ |
| 23 | My own belief , for which I shall attempt to argue , is that , whatever may become of the GCSE ( and its future seems very speculative ) , A levels should gradually be made redundant . |
| 24 | Apart from doing the job of Principal ( for which I shall need a lot of help from the Lord ) , and living as a Christian I do n't yet know what the Lord wants me to do out there . |
| 25 | For which I 'll pay . |
| 26 | To me ‘ positive'/ ‘ negative ’ seemed too sharp a distinction , for which I should have preferred the category ‘ included'/ ‘ excluded ’ . |
| 27 | Stead argues that only constant inquiry ( for which I could substitute ‘ inside ethnography ’ ) can prevent such an unacceptable trend , and it is some comfort to see a probationary policewoman , such as Cressida Dick ( 1985 ) , pointing out the political compromises such autocracy can produce , but which few of the chief officers seem willing to admit or even acknowledge . |
| 28 | He laughs again , and as the light is fading we walk back to the village , past small boys running hurdy-gurdies ; he teaching me plant names for which I can find no translation . |
| 29 | The manner in which the Prime Minister had handled the Westland issue within the Cabinet system , Mr Heseltine told the world 's press , was ‘ not a proper way to carry on government and ultimately not an approach for which I can share responsibility ’ . |
| 30 | an Amstrad , f for which I can give you my letterhead and formatting and you can then write letters for me . |