Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I conclude that which I took so much pains about will never come to thy hands . |
| 2 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 3 | It gave me an unwelcome feeling and a ‘ you 're not wanted here , get out ’ complex , from which I became utterly pessimistic and a trifle hostile . |
| 4 | which I mean even that may be too big for what we want . |
| 5 | At this time I began , having been converted through reading the gospels , carefully to read the book of Acts and discovered there a level of Christian effectiveness of which I knew very little . |
| 6 | He 's got a really good band now , too , which I saw about three months ago . |
| 7 | A fact which I regard as crucial to the decision of these appeals is stated by the special commissioner [ 1990 ] S.T.C. 6 , 11F–G , as follows : ‘ on the facts , the taxpayers ' sons occupied only surplus places at the college and their right to do so was entirely discretionary . ’ |
| 8 | It is Labour 's denial of that proposition which I regard as fatal to our future . |
| 9 | And I have lots of letters which I discovered about five years ago , which I thought were probably letters that my father had written it , Adam , because his name and my grandfather 's name were exactly the same . |
| 10 | They did send me a cheque for £8 , which I returned as inadequate . |
| 11 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 12 | Like my contemporaries I first attended an elementary school , about which I remember only three things . |
| 13 | Which I doubt very much . |
| 14 | Indeed , the next months were taxing in a different way , culminating in my appointment to a post in Bahrein for which I had little enough relish . |
| 15 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 16 | I had blank sections under my topic headings on paper in which I wrote very brief notes at the time and these were expanded more fully immediately after the interviews while my memory was still fresh . |
| 17 | For the first time in my life , my hair behaved itself and curled round my face in a manner which I considered most flattering , and my make-up went on well on a skin which did n't have one spot or blemish . |
| 18 | Leeds was the first city I had ever visited and when I was taken by car to the television studios I had my first encounter with revolving doors , which I found rather strange . |
| 19 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 20 | Lady Francesca was treated as a favoured daughter but Sir Robert was idolised , treated with a deference which I found quite surprising . |
| 21 | What was unacceptable and intolerable suddenly — just like that — became acceptable and tolerable , as the Conservative party line turned , with a discipline which I found quite remarkable and which was reminiscent of societies that Conservative Members often dismiss contemptuously . |
| 22 | ‘ The company had a very cosy club atmosphere , which I found quite difficult to cope with in terms of what I saw as a lack of professionalism . ’ |
| 23 | In fact I can not remember reading a book on this topic which I found more rewarding or useful . |
| 24 | Though there is a good deal there which I found deeply offensive , he wrote , as you must have realized when you sent me the stuff , though , knowing you as I do , I suspect it may not even have crossed your mind , anyway , to be brief , I have , of course , put my feelings to one side and decided to honour the integrity of . |
| 25 | There was no bed and we did it on the floor , which I found excruciatingly uncomfortable . |
| 26 | The Catholic intelligentsia had been highly critical of the way the government had conducted itself : Blackfriars , the Oxford Dominican journal , had taken a line which I found especially sympathetic ; and D'Arcy , to whom I had sent my article , wrote to me expressing approval of my stand . |
| 27 | There 's a smell of salt and mud and dead fish , which I find unpleasantly reminiscent of somewhere else . |
| 28 | The notion of justice which I find most convincing is that which tells us that we ought to seek a society in which each person is accepted as of equal moral worth and has equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total sum of society 's goods . |
| 29 | I have always wanted a dining room under glass , so we are having a conservatory built along with a super , big kitchen complete with labour-saving appliances , including a microwave , which I find particularly good for cooking fish ; I do n't believe in ‘ sweatshop ’ kitchens . |
| 30 | The Corydons are placed further away , which lends their performance an intoxicating dream-like quality , which I find particularly apt . |