Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [verb] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir you 'll have seen the County Planning Officer 's own report on these matters and you 'll have seen exactly the same comments which I 've made contained in that report . |
| 2 | and it 's , it 's a subject which I 've enjoyed doing a lot , English , |
| 3 | I 've also got more copies of the reading list which I 've forgotten to bring with me but which I have got er upstairs and they 're pinned to my door , if anybody needs another reading list , okay ? |
| 4 | On top of that , the couple of thugs who came here to force you to sign the insurance document , which I 've read end to end … ’ |
| 5 | Which would be as good a way as any for me to get Rainbow off the premises , before those inhibitions of hers — which I 've left bound and gagged at the back of her wardrobe — work their knots out and come riding to the rescue . |
| 6 | Right Right I 'll er , I 'll get this er , I 'm just busy with , with school at the moment but I 'll , I 'll get the er whatsit off to you , the er tt erm Beatles Monthly which I 've got waiting here and I 'll . |
| 7 | ‘ V S Pritchett wrote a wonderful thing which I 've got pinned up above my desk : that you do n't invent a plot , you invent a character , and then the character leads you off and that becomes the plot . |
| 8 | These I do not repeat here , but my version of Boulestin 's sweet tomato conserve , which I had intended to include in the same book and which is indeed indexed as appearing in it , somehow got away . |
| 9 | There was one aspect of his life which had made him so — of which I had heard talk long before on some obscure wanderers ' grapevine . |
| 10 | She pointed to the sleek white pleasure yacht which I had seen lying at anchor at the foot of the small hill , and chaffed Baker , ‘ I always have the feeling he 'd rather be on the water than on dry land . |
| 11 | A few days ago , when it had been snowing , I saw a group of Savoy cabbages standing frozen and benumbed , and it reminded me of a group of women in their thin petticoats and old shawls which I had seen standing in a little hot-water-and-coal shop early in the morning . ’ |
| 12 | Sand was cleaner than water , the desert dead cleaner than the drowned dishevelled things which I had seen thrown up on shores . |
| 13 | We were talking about flowers and I mentioned the wild garlic which I had seen growing in Wiltshire . |
| 14 | Rattling to the airport in a taxi after despairing of the scheduled bus , I had felt a free-floating grumpiness , a symptom of the thin layers of anxiety which I had found coat the start of any journey in Latin America . |
| 15 | From time to time a harassed mother might rap angrily on the window to complain that she could n't get her push-chair past the car , which I had parked blocking the pavement . |
| 16 | Everything then was twice as frightening , so I returned to the gentle patting and quiet treatment with which I had tried to persevere before , and slowly Jester forgot his ‘ fear ’ and got on with his work . |
| 17 | All the things which I had feared turned up in a relentless progression . |
| 18 | I remembered that Valerie Briscoe-Hooks had her vests pinned to her shorts , which I had thought looked quite smart . |
| 19 | Trammelled by my exhaustive cataloguing of habit , which I had continued to practise at Mr Broadhurst 's insistence , my visual escapades had become fully manageable . |
| 20 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
| 21 | Thank you very much indeed for your card and the £25 , with which I have decided to buy some pinking shears , to encourage me to do some dressmaking now that summer is ( supposedly ) not far away . |
| 22 | I have been there nearly ten years now , and they are years in which I have grown to learn a good deal more about the power of the Holy Spirit , his gifts , his humbling and breaking , and the glorious way in which he takes and transforms congregations and lives from every conceivable background once opened to him . |
| 23 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 24 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |
| 25 | As a legal device , it exists for a number of purposes which I have sought to set out . |
| 26 | I hope that by now you can begin to appreciate the delicacy of discrimination and the moral fervour which I have sought to bring to my work and that you will hold these qualities in your mind when the grossness , vulgarity and immorality of gossip or criticism begins to corrode the lucid purity of my text . |
| 27 | If that means that the wardship judge has wider powers than a natural parent ( on the extent of which I have declined to express an opinion ) , it seems to me to be warranted by the authorities to which I have referred . ’ |
| 28 | It is wholly consistent with the principles which I have endeavoured to state in this speech . ’ |
| 29 | In my opinion , the facts of this case to which I have referred fall far short of establishing that Mr. Occhi had so consented . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman should first reflect on the fact that , in his own area of South Yorkshire , the figures to which I have referred show that the incidence of sexual and violent crimes has been going down , not up . |