Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My topic was press coverage of the IQ controversy , which I thought distorted to the point of newsworthiness . |
| 2 | You had an anonymous female voice , which I assume belonged to Brenda Kelly , the producer , occasionally asking a question or providing a short commentary , but usually the people who appeared on the programme spoke for themselves , to camera , about their music . |
| 3 | but I , I 'd like to go and ask there some time whether they did Oh that 's the one for sale which I saw advertised in the paper today |
| 4 | All was quiet inside my Spidertop which I 'd tucked under my belt . |
| 5 | ‘ When I was ten , my Dad bought me a guitar for Christmas , which I 'd asked for , but at the same time he enrolled me at the local golf club ! |
| 6 | Which meant if I did it in year three , which I 'd liked to , then you 'd obviously equal or went into drama . |
| 7 | They made no effort to withdraw , or temper their gaze or remarks , and I struggled to maintain the sort of meditational dispassion which I 'd observed in my cat on its box . |
| 8 | and erm I had jaundice as well which I 'd contracted from Jim |
| 9 | Pray God it was n't Tommy Elliot 's farm , which I 'd played with for two years and which I feared — from glances and whispers that I 'd caught between my sister and Mrs Elliot — was going to be cleaned up and bought for me for Christmas . |
| 10 | my holiday was later as usual and longer so , you know and there was a couple of other things not related to this which I 'd thought of doing and it 's sort of they evaporated , but erm , we did spend time talking to Ingy earlier in the year , you know , about publicity and I gave her lists of well such as things obvious things like Playback and Newsbeat |
| 11 | I lost a sodden pair of boots and socks , and William 's day bag , which I 'd borrowed for a rucksack . |
| 12 | I fingered Jo 's credit cards , which I 'd slipped into a trouser pocket . |
| 13 | Up until now there had n't been a peep out of the former Jam bassist which I 'd attributed to one of three things — shyness , boredom or a reluctance to interrupt his new boss who , it has to be said , makes Ian Paisley seem like a Trappist Monk when he gets into his stride . |
| 14 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 15 | It was published shortly after I 'd taken part in a time and motion study during which I 'd spoken to the man with the clip-board and asked a few pertinent questions . |
| 16 | All of which I 'd learnt from Churchill , of course . |
| 17 | I came back with scent bottles at £2.50 each , which I 've seen in British stores for over £50 . |
| 18 | What we do need is the equivalent of what we 've got in the documents which I 've given to you which is some sort of allowance for every bit of control of the thing . |
| 19 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 20 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 21 | She 's a fantastic cook , which I 've followed in her footsteps . |
| 22 | There 's nothing Jack loathes more than reading some publication in which I 've referred to him as a saint and I 'm sure Reggie feels the same way . |
| 23 | Er in the alternative of course er the local communities have available er the High Court action which I 've referred to during several discussions with yourselves over the last week or two . |
| 24 | The submission that Selby make on the basis of constraints , of which I 've referred to earlier , |
| 25 | Which I 've hidden from him , of course . |
| 26 | And that 's called erm er a special word which I 've forgotten for the moment . |
| 27 | It 's a good a good long way west of the site which I 've marked by a star . |
| 28 | And that generally comes form the flat owners which I 've talked to meself . |
| 29 | Like another release in the same series — Benedict Mason 's Lighthouses of England and Wales , which I 've reviewed at length below — Birtwistle 's work is also , for all its contemporary superstructure and substructures , a species of tone-poem in a genre that British composers tend to be good at : in this case the quasipantheistic dark-pastoral in the tradition of North Country Sketches , In the Faery Hills , Enter Spring and , perhaps especially , the ‘ Ritual dances ’ from Tippett 's Midsummer Marriage . |
| 30 | Mr Devaux said : ‘ I have had 22 happy years at the bar but I 'm pleased to be appointed particularly in the area in which I 've practised for 14 years now . ’ |