Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would just about have the strength to make it through the gates — to the rest and smoke which I badly needed because my legs were beginning to seize up . |
| 2 | Further points were discussed , for example the need for public liability insurance , which I duly went and arranged ; the need for ‘ Caution : Work in Progress ’ signs at each end , which I duly had made ; the need to take care , when working , not to disturb the kicking stones ; and the need to avoid making heaps when distributing the spoil , so as not to impede the grass cutter . |
| 3 | I was also given an indemnity form , which I duly completed and returned . |
| 4 | I also removed a Building Society book in the name of Francis Maclean , which I reckoned had about £450 in the account , and an Access card in the same name which I rarely used and certainly had nearly a grand 's worth of credit on it . |
| 5 | He chuckles and says , ‘ a few years ago , I had an interview — it was with GRAMOPHONE , actually — in which I confidently predicted that surely people will stop releasing the Mendelssohn-Bruch coupling , and within a year there were two or three more . |
| 6 | I sat with my head in my hands for a while , then I went over to my desk and took out a small framed photograph of Anne and myself which I always hid before she arrived . |
| 7 | I note that in the academic year 1979 — 80 the parents in the school in which I then worked provided voluntary donations of £878 . |
| 8 | I suppose , too , that I felt guilty : if I had behaved like a properly loving wife and refused to let Flora monopolize Richard so blatantly — which I only did because I was enjoying Adam 's company — the situation might not have arisen . |
| 9 | But in the course of developing our case we have found no grounds upon which I could have validly chosen my present ends except that they are the ones to which I spontaneously tended when most aware ; on what grounds then could I persist in preferring these ends to a further advance in awareness which would undermine them ? |
| 10 | They were the earliest type of school text book erm which came in in about fourteen fifty , er to teach your A B C which you just copied and copied and copied until you got it right . |
| 11 | It was easy to surrender your independence in ways which you hardly realised until too late . |
| 12 | Senior officials of the African National Congress have been urging Mr Mandela to announce an official separation from his wife since her latest outburst in which she allegedly threatened and waved a pistol at Mrs Xoliswa Falati , her co-accused in last year 's trial for kidnap and assault . |
| 13 | There was an edge of sarcasm in her voice , which she immediately regretted when she saw the anger flicker across his face . |
| 14 | This time there was no softness in the sound , no gentleness , just a raw aching need for possession , which she immediately recognised and gloried in . |
| 15 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 16 | She became assertive-in-spite-of-herself , and marching rapidly from one end of the kitchen to the other , which she always did when entrusting him with a home truth , said , ‘ It 's not , Henry . |
| 17 | She was biting her thumb , which she always did when she was concentrating . |
| 18 | Charlotte did get the position of nanny and often travelled on the same train home on her days off , always in the first compartment behind the tender and always hoping that she would see Albert , which she often did and she leaned out of the window to talk to him when the train stopped in the stations . |
| 19 | When she breast-fed him , which she still did though he was now a year old , the comfort of it made her weep and in weeping she felt happier . |
| 20 | The facts , as we perceive them , do suggest the existence of a coordinating intelligence at work behind the scenes , possibly an aspect of that same life energy , or vital force , which we already saw as having an organizing and integrating function in the individual living organism . |
| 21 | The clause on which they finally agreed and which was adopted the next day as part of the constitution , read instead : Persons who can hear , taking an active interest in the welfare or education of the deaf and dumb , shall be eligible for admission to ordinary membership on the recommendation of five ordinary members of the Association . |
| 22 | The cultural context of the mystics who wrote in English in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries witnesses to an appetite for spiritual literature which they both formed and addressed . |
| 23 | Each member of the community was given a name by which he or she was addressed in the Little Academy , representing a quality which they either possessed or sought . |
| 24 | And erm in contrast the beaches at erm Seaford have suffered very serious erosion as a result of the depletion of material which they formerly received and Seaford , which of course faces southwest anyway , has always suffered serious erosion . |
| 25 | In taking into account the user of the vehicle which they actually found or which they inferred from the practice of the previous owner it seems to me they did not err . |
| 26 | A standard method of collecting image data was used : i.e. respondents were presented with a card listing 20 towns and cities which they then scored as interviewers read out 12 pairs of statements , each representing the positive and negative sides of an image dimension . |
| 27 | Older people have absorbed these attitudes which they once held as young people , and lead their lives in ways which confirm the stereotyped images , and perpetuate the myths of ageism from generation to generation . |
| 28 | Many teachers are not teaching the subjects for which they originally qualified and the audit can reveal other hidden skills and talents . |
| 29 | The government officials recognized the system since most bureaucrats owed their own position to nepotism and patronage , perpetuating ‘ a procedure to which they originally resorted and to which they are committed and indebted ’ . |
| 30 | Slightly embarrassed by the formality of these surroundings , they would relax in the pub , to which they always retired when the official business had been completed . |