Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These 'ere smugglers is a dangerous bunch from wot I 've 'eard ! ’ |
| 2 | Know wot I mean ? ’ |
| 3 | Thass wot I call livin' if you mus ' know . |
| 4 | ‘ That was n't w-hat I meant , ’ Nogai protested . |
| 5 | Aristotle said something very interesting in that extract from the Politics which I quoted earlier ; he said that women have a deliberative faculty but that it lacks full authority . |
| 6 | In the same interview from which I quoted , Mr. Bickerstaffe went on to repeat the high priority that NUPE attaches to increasing the minimum wage — a proposal which the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) has already said would cost the NHS between £400 million and £500 million . |
| 7 | If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines : |
| 8 | The maxim on which I act at any moment is the personal rule which is guiding my behaviour — for Kant it is of the essence of voluntary action that there is such a maxim in every case . |
| 9 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 10 | 10 October , 1979 STEPHEN SPENDER , teaching in Lynchburg , Virginia , writes in his journal : ‘ My class , which I took last night , seems irremediable . |
| 11 | I conclude that which I took so much pains about will never come to thy hands . |
| 12 | This is a picture which I took of him myself . |
| 13 | ‘ The movies are true , ’ screamed my eyes from the back of the yellow can which I took from the airport . |
| 14 | The latter ( in which I took a great personal interest ) required the installation of a special engine to pump up the Secondary Modern sewage into a tank , at the Grammar School level , from which it could then flow gently eastwards towards the Oxford Road . |
| 15 | I pretended to ignore this and he said something in German after me which I took to mean : ‘ You must be a very dull fellow if you do n't think that sort of thing funny . ’ |
| 16 | Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another . |
| 17 | ‘ My GP prescribed an oral antibiotic which I took for five months , but it did n't do anything . |
| 18 | I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available . |
| 19 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 20 | ‘ At this present moment they are engaged in a fully comprehensive training course using the systems run by the local college , on which I took the liberty of enrolling them . |
| 21 | She held out her hand , which I took . |
| 22 | A soft pattering followed which I took to be matches falling around the receiver . |
| 23 | A woman was driving and she parked beside our land-cruiser , nodding to us briefly as she stepped out onto the road and flung a series of questions at the Indian , half in Spanish and half in a more guttural tongue , which I took to be Quechua . |
| 24 | Ron then spoke about debt management and Bank deposits , after which I took the platform to talk about investment and pensions . |
| 25 | He said something which I took to mean ‘ hair of the dog ’ in Serbo Croat then he poured . |
| 26 | As I said , it is an important issue , because it involves a decision which I took . |
| 27 | The problem there was the children climbing the fence and with just having spent five hundred and eighty pounds putting a fence up , spent another fifty four pounds although it 's not in the budget , I accept that , er was er a necessary expenditure which I took a decision on straight away because I did n't want to see our five hundred pound fence being knocked down within a week of being put up . |
| 28 | that I would also put it on in relation to your , to , to , to , to , to your Lordship and to considering the matter in interim , your Lordship has er , erm , er heard er the information that had been put forward er by the society , you have seen the er information about the position the commission has taken , your Lordship knows that the commission was informed about both the act and all the relevant byelaws in the present case , the precursored , the central fund byelaw was informally proved by the commission Mrs has sworn on affidavit that the society has never been given any indication that the matters in issue in the European Law Defence are contrary to competition rules and your Lordship also has the answer by the commission to the European parliament which is exhibited to Mrs affidavit and which I took your Lordship to earlier and of which judicial note can be taken by virtual section three , two of the European communities act , so my Lord we say that there is already a body of information which provides a basis if one has to consider what should be done in the interim of saying that in the interim the application of the act and the application for byelaws should be maintained , the third element my Lord is the intimate link between the recoveries of money for the central fund , er under the byelaw and the implementation of the United Kingdom 's operations under directive seventy three , two , three , nine , we 've been over this before my Lord erm , my Lord is , is aware of the intimate link er between the er recovery of monies to central fund , the maintenance solvency and the paying of policy holders . |
| 29 | ‘ My legs were in a right mess from blows which I took from Tony Cordle and I could hardly bowl for all the strapping when we took the field , ’ grinned Robinson . |
| 30 | After twelve years in management , I have n't yet had a tape arrive which I thought I could do anything with . |