Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He teased me about the way in which I always created a background for these exhibitions , isolating them from their surroundings , by arranging a roll of six feet high gray or white corrugated card in columns and bays . |
| 2 | Well actually I feel a lot happier if you say that , because can I actually one of the first questions you asked , which I never got a chance to answer , though Terry did , was which what sort of criteria one would use to say that a Prime Minister 's good and erm I was sort of thinking of that as Terry was answering and I think the thing I came up with is you want somebody who represents , or is sensitive to at least , a very wide swathe of views across the population , but also someone who 's intelligent and caring enough to take into account the minority views , and you want somebody who 's aim is to make most of the people happy most of the time , sort of thing , erm but who 's also prepared to take unpopular steps erm if he believes it 's necessary . |
| 3 | Last season , I had one which I never got a chance to use : - ( . |
| 4 | The FOURTH stage will be the selling and — realising that the only sensible sale is one on which you actually make a profit — getting paid . |
| 5 | You can do things ( functionality ) for which you really need a network ( specific ) . |
| 6 | One notes with approval the prominent place given to The Daily Telegraph in the order of daily reading ; her ‘ oldie ’ taste for a Roberts radio , which she surely calls a wireless , and a telephone heavy enough to act as a doorstopper . |
| 7 | The commission of crimes against them will have the effect of diminishing their positive freedom , to which they also have a right ; for example crimes of injurious violence reduce the victims ' freedom to operate physically free from pain , while property offences will deprive them of resources and thereby remove their freedom to choose to act in ways which require the use of those resources . |
| 8 | Dedicated kite flyers had been aware of the Sanjo Rokkaku for ages , largely through Tal Streeter 's excellent book The Art of the Japanese Kite ( Weatherhill , New York 1974 ) in which he vividly described a visit to Toranosuke Watanabe , the Shirone kite maker who specialised , as did generations of his family before him , in making these hexagonal Rokkaku fighters . |
| 9 | His descent continued : his job talking rubes into a San Francisco strip-club was his most reputable career during a period in which he also became a heroin addict , a pimp for his next bride and an armed robber ( he once pinned a victim 's hand to the floor with a knife ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I do feel , ’ Rune was continuing with the same reasonable approach with which he doubtless addressed a board meeting , ‘ that we need an in-depth discussion about its capabilities and design before we consider the best way to market it in the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 11 | He failed the end of year exams after the first year and changed his subject to sociology , in which he later attained a degree . |
| 12 | for which he then gives a number of convincing reasons . |
| 13 | The committee bases its views on the experience of Depo 's use in conditions for which it already has a licence . |
| 14 | That 's what I just said a minute ago . |
| 15 | That what I always call a family , is now referred to a lot a lot as a family . |
| 16 | I asked my granny why and she said that there had been what we now call a newsflash on the wireless saying the King had died . |
| 17 | They last a day when they 're old look my mother what they really last a day . |
| 18 | But of course it turns out that the blithe estivant was only planning what he doubtless terms a Weekend Break . |