Example sentences of "and [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had always been taught in Germany to trust my doctor , and obey what he said , ’ she explained . |
| 2 | She stood for hours behind him , seeing him sketch , then stop and change what he had drawn . |
| 3 | I would suggest we do not need a second read of the discussion , but that can people keep an eye on , or try and change what is already there on pollution itself . |
| 4 | The possibilities for learning and change which emerge from socialization theories fit better with egalitarian feminist commitments to balance and justice , and put these theories at the centre of many western feminist accounts of subjectivity . |
| 5 | In this respect , as in others , the 1290s were to be a period of crisis and change which was to make an impact on Anglo-French relations . |
| 6 | In recent years sociolinguists have shown a fair amount of interest in models of variation and change which are based on the notion of lexical diffusion ( Chen 1976 ; Wang 1969 ; Labov 1981 ; J. Milroy 1981b ; Trudgill 1986a : 58 ) . |
| 7 | What countless new churches have done is to take these helpful headings and develop what goes on under each one in a way that is flexible . |
| 8 | The data in Table 7 can be rearranged so as to rank universities in order of the proportion of Scottish theses to theses as a whole , and develop what might be called a ‘ Parochiality Index ’ . |
| 9 | This rather reserved child , this self-styled future utopian essayist , found herself rattling on about unhappiness and happiness , found herself possessed by a desire to comprehend and convey what had happened , was happening , to a handful of people near her . |
| 10 | Throughout the long evenings she worked in the garden and planned what bulbs she would plant for spring flowers . |
| 11 | Move out into the country , go back to living in old rabbit-holes and eating whatever we can find . |
| 12 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 13 | The APM and the report provided an opportunity for governors to explain , justify and evaluate what they had been doing , especially with regard to the quality of education offered . |
| 14 | The real action , however , begins on Side Two with ‘ Perversonality ’ , an adrenalin rush of murder and hate which spits straight in your face . |
| 15 | I lay with my feet toward the open end of the tent , unfastened my canteen and boiled what was left of a cabbage I had bought in Adrar . |
| 16 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 17 | It is hardly surprising given the enhanced status , power and influence which the nineteenth century had brought , that Nonconformists had come to identify the Christian religion with the values and secular goals of their times , the most important of which was an acceptance of the inevitability of progress through change . |
| 18 | The sixth Duke never married , but he was a great horticulturist , and it is believed it was his interest and influence which led to the establishment of the Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick . |
| 19 | that the choice lay between power , which had served us since the days of Clive , and influence which , if we could use it aright in the changed conditions of the twentieth century , would serve us better . |
| 20 | ‘ The learned judge left the case to the jury , remarking upon the tender years of the girl , her situation under the care and authority of the prisoner and his wife , and the authority and influence which the prisoner had over her in the absence of his wife . |
| 21 | But even if American anti-imperialism were diluted in practice , the British knew they still faced an uphill struggle after the war to regain the degree of international power and influence which they believed was rightly theirs . |
| 22 | The governor expressed his disillusionment in letters to Penn and others : ‘ the hosts of mosquitoes are worse than armed men , yet the men without arms [ are ] worse than they ’ ; and attacked what he saw as Quaker hypocrisy : ‘ each praying with his neighbour on First Days , and then preying on him the other six ’ . |
| 23 | The move followed the completion of a report , commissioned by Col. René Emilio Ponce , the military chief of staff , and drafted by junior officers , which criticized the conduct of the military operations against the FMLN and attacked what they described as corrupt practices by senior officers , the vagaries of the promotion system and the lack of accountability of commanders . |
| 24 | The statement praised the intifada and President Saddam Hussein of Iraq , and attacked what it described as " American imperialism and its ally , the Zionist entity " , " the Damascus regime and the Arab Gulf regimes " , and " the Iranian regime " . |
| 25 | One day , the Head of Sixth Form — a teacher called Don Palmer — came in and asked what we were doing . |
| 26 | Charles walked straight up to him and asked what was wrong . |
| 27 | Trudging back one evening , having been out all day and having had no luck , Charles spotted a large heap of rocks on the hillside above them , and asked what it was . |
| 28 | McLeish decided that since she was unaware of her audience it did not become him to be selfconscious , and asked what she expected even a Senator to achieve in these circumstances ? |
| 29 | Charles called Peregrine a sadist and asked what point there was in teaching cooks and clerks to ski . |
| 30 | According to an apocryphal story he was stopped in the foyer and asked what advice he would give to an eager undergraduate embarking on a career . |