Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outcome of a blatant novelty song would have been lots of cash ( something to which everyone had a liking ) and a higher profile . |
| 2 | Of even greater consequence , the participation of adolescents in society was of special interest in the latter part of the War when ‘ reconstruction ’ promised both efficiency and a liberal , social democracy in which everyone had a part to play . |
| 3 | This is a collective ritual in which everyone plays a part . |
| 4 | And it 's not just in this country that memories of a Britain in which everyone wore a vest , ate toasted crumpets for tea and never went out without a hat that these programmes are appreciated . |
| 5 | Protagoras ' reply to this is to contend that political wisdom is not a matter of specialized knowledge , but something in which everyone has a share , and in which it is necessary that everyone has a share , " Otherwise the state could not exist " . |
| 6 | We 've gone from a more-or-less carefree kind of life of our twenties , in which the car , the flat and the girlfriend/ boyfriend were about the only real constituents — to a world in which everyone wants a piece of our time , in which we have to make decisions ( fundamental , trivial , pregnant with import ) every three minutes . |
| 7 | There was no need to say ‘ a ’ ball , ‘ a ’ window , since the researcher was looking at them too and so they were , in common to both viewers , ‘ the ’ ball , ‘ the ’ window , Were researcher and student both watching an actual event in which someone kicked a ball through a window ; the use of ‘ the ’ would be obvious and the ‘ frame ’ as it were would not need to be drawn . |
| 8 | The latter ( in which I took a great personal interest ) required the installation of a special engine to pump up the Secondary Modern sewage into a tank , at the Grammar School level , from which it could then flow gently eastwards towards the Oxford Road . |
| 9 | The problem there was the children climbing the fence and with just having spent five hundred and eighty pounds putting a fence up , spent another fifty four pounds although it 's not in the budget , I accept that , er was er a necessary expenditure which I took a decision on straight away because I did n't want to see our five hundred pound fence being knocked down within a week of being put up . |
| 10 | I had twenty-four kronor of Swedish money , which I thought a handsome sum , but it proved sufficient to buy only one hopelessly modest open sandwich , like the bottom half of a hamburger bun with a menopausal piece of lettuce and eight marble-sized meatballs on top . |
| 11 | Our next port of call was Piraeus , which I thought a dirty , uninteresting place . |
| 12 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 13 | Another gift that was well received was a book of poetry for which I made a pressed flower bookmark . |
| 14 | Which I made a note of . |
| 15 | In the Lyttelton , it 's such a thrill to see Alan Bennett blossom in another line of work , by which I mean a full-length piece like The Madness of George III . |
| 16 | Everyone , I 'm sure , has a ‘ little black dress ’ type of pattern , by which I mean a perennial favourite that gets made up in different yarns and colours over the years for various celebrations , parties and so on . |
| 17 | I am saying Mr Major , as Prime Minister , if someone in my position is saying I believe , I believe , there is the best opportunity here for lasting peace , by which I mean a total cessation of violence , the least I expect is that you should listen to what I have to say . |
| 18 | It seemed that they were either capitalist or social democrats which I mean a social democrat by any other na a Tory by any other name 's just the same . |
| 19 | A few weeks ago I wrote to inform your Mother and Aunts of the Death of Mr. Green 's eldest unmarried Daughter , who was the main prop of the Family , and of a plan which had been set on foot for their relief by raising a Subscription , to which I received a most kind and satisfactory reply . |
| 20 | He took all my clothes , my underpants , my toothbrush and razor , in return for which I received a clean set of fatigues , underwear and a wash kit . |
| 21 | I was lending a hand in the store of one of my compatriots ; for which I received a miserly stipend and a corner of a room in the warehouse already occupied by two young Chinese . |
| 22 | In my Bill , for which I seek a Second Reading today , the provision is that Parliament should be elected by the single transferable vote in the first instance , but thereafter , in subsequent elections , Parliament should be free to determine its own electoral system as long as that is consistent with the principles of proportionality . |
| 23 | I 've got a ‘ 56 goldtop Les Paul with soapbar pickups which I like a lot . |
| 24 | ‘ She develops this grandiose theory of herself as being important , and makes Truth Or Dare which I saw a couple of minutes of but had to stop watching because it was so unpleasant and embarrassing and awful . |
| 25 | I thought it was just a or something which I 'd a owed stodge |
| 26 | When the direction of resources ( within the limits of the contract ) becomes dependent on the buyer in this way , the relationship which I term a ‘ firm ’ may be obtained . |
| 27 | I had , however , the good fortune not only to kill the bird myself , but , in one instance , to find its nest , from which I shot a female . ’ |
| 28 | For the third period in general management for the rest of her working life , I assess her annual salary at fifteen thousand nine hundred pounds net , to which I apply a multiplier of twelve to reach the figure of one hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred pounds . |
| 29 | I have a 3′ community tank in which I keep a pair of Silver Dollars , a Red-tailed Black Shark , two sucking loaches , a Coolie loach , Neon and Cardinal Tetras , guppies and three Indian Glassfish . |
| 30 | In one Oxfordshire school in which I spent a day , I saw a nine year old begin a piece of descriptive writing at ten o'clock in the morning . |