Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the reading content of the recommended book for Class 2 in Sierra Leone which I saw being used with very young children in Freetown schools is far above the average reading level one might expect for six-year-olds in London who speak English , not Creole , at home . |
| 2 | One evening we filmed at six o'clock a commercial which I 'd been handed in script form at five o'clock the same evening . |
| 3 | The wedding to which I had been invited was taking place in a village church ten miles the other side of Downshurst , a market town eleven miles from my aunt 's cottage . |
| 4 | I put on my shoes and jacket which I had been asked to take off and told the doctor I would visit her another time . |
| 5 | Much interest was expressed from personnel across the system in the work in which I had been involved over the last eleven years with Queensland Catholic Education . |
| 6 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 7 | I am referring to Dr. Bach Flower Remedies , a mixed distillation of which I had been prescribed and acquired at Bristol . |
| 8 | After it had run along the shores of the Adriatic on its way to Monfalcone , I had my last view of the Kras , the country in which I had been born , rising like a great wall above the plains of Friuli and then gradually disappearing altogether . |
| 9 | What I experienced as I fell on my knees was a metaphor — I saw the technological society into which I had been born as a Frankenstein body from which the spirit was missing . |
| 10 | I gave her a deep old-fashioned bow , a legacy of the East European courtesies in which I had been raised . |
| 11 | ‘ Life has changed , Shama , ’ I said looking at the Japanese thermos on the chair by my bed and the round box of Danish biscuits which I had been given ‘ in case you are hungry in the night ’ . |
| 12 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 13 | I saw only that , in this magical new view of the world to which I had been introduced , scepticism and gullibility must be harnessed in tandem if nothing was to be missed . |
| 14 | Jean-Claude had a different way of looking at moral issues from the one in which I had been brought up , and judged correct . |
| 15 | Later , habit was to help me to find Aunt Louise with the assurance of a homing pigeon ; now , hesitant of asking the way ( being unable to read on the faces of those I encountered whether they were patients or helpers ) , I had great difficulty in finding the right building ; and then — up ill-lit stone staircases and along corridors — in finding the ward to which I had been directed . |
| 16 | It was not a matter with which I had been confronted . |
| 17 | Upon receiving a degree which would allow me to undertake research , I turned down a place which I had been offered to study theology , and went to Oxford . |
| 18 | The part of the convent in which I lived was called the noviceship . |
| 19 | I am surprised to hear a defence spokesman ask that question , because he knows that the two cases to which I referred are covered by the negative security assurances which made the use of nuclear weapons in such circumstances inconceivable . |
| 20 | I feel that it was actually so quick — not at all what I 'd been led to expect from antenatal classes — that I could n't savour the birth or get used to the idea . |
| 21 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 22 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 23 | I now looked up what I had been prescribed : |
| 24 | Part of my process of becoming who I am involved rejecting some of what I had been born into . |
| 25 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 26 | There were hand-outs on ‘ Cruelty Free ’ cosmetics , positively promoting cosmetic companies who did not drip shampoo into rabbits ' eyes in what I knew was called the Draize Test for irritancy . |
| 27 | As I said , what I did was dictated by necessity . |