Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These 'ere smugglers is a dangerous bunch from wot I 've 'eard ! ’ |
| 2 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
| 3 | From the Wilton Weavers she was given a camera as a leaving present and from the Winding Department and the Spool Setters she received a generous gift of cash to which everyone had contributed . |
| 4 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
| 5 | That is why schools increasingly take immense amounts of classroom time to work their way through rule systems with children , so that the end result is a matter of agreement , towards which everyone has contributed and on which everyone has agreed . |
| 6 | That is why schools increasingly take immense amounts of classroom time to work their way through rule systems with children , so that the end result is a matter of agreement , towards which everyone has contributed and on which everyone has agreed . |
| 7 | I think has summed up quite well there I think , which , what everyone 's aims is , which is that we want an effective and efficient police force , which everyone has got confidence in to make sure that it protects citizens against crime in this country , and nothing could be , I do n't think anybody who is erm , civilised in this county or this country would want anything different . |
| 8 | Which poet described a politician as ‘ an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man ’ ? |
| 9 | Of course , I must be honest : I think some people will probably get hurt , but I suppose that 's a risk which everyone 's got to take in war . ’ |
| 10 | In fact it was papier-mache on which someone had done a skilful paint job . |
| 11 | The window behind the altar had been replaced with a piece of board across which someone had scrawled in black paint ‘ This side up ’ . |
| 12 | Close to him was a short , narrow ledge , to which someone had lashed the corpse of a young man . |
| 13 | She had been delighted at her first view of the interior , the grained wood panels on which someone had painted castles and hearts , diamonds and clusters of roses in brilliant reds , yellows and greens . |
| 14 | Ten seconds in which someone had stopped breathing . |
| 15 | A six-pack of beer , which someone had forgotten to stow away , slid back and forth across the cabin floor , over and over again . |
| 16 | Wendell stared down at the glass of brandy which someone had put into his hands . |
| 17 | He shuffled a bit at that , shrinking into his green trenchcoat which someone had told him was yuppily fashionable . |
| 18 | He then reminisced about a house-party at which someone had suggested that Mr Eliot ( who did not go to many such parties ) should be invited to read some of his poems . |
| 19 | If the bill is to be calculated on a daily rate and someone 's auntie comes to stay for a couple of months in the middle of the year , what about all the complications in adjusting for that and how do we account for the period for which someone has lost the discount ? |
| 20 | In addition we are still receiving enquiries about prisoners featured in the first two series in 1988 and 1989 , and we have recently received a copy of a letter from Alattin Sahin , the Turkish prisoner of conscience in the 1988 , which someone has received on his release . |
| 21 | But in one corner of the churchyard , not far from the rotting wooden gate in the surrounding wall , there stands a cross which someone has taken trouble to keep upright and its inscription legible . |
| 22 | It is possible to take a stretch of language which someone has used in communication and treat it as a sentence for a translation exercise , or an object for grammatical analysis . |
| 23 | My topic was press coverage of the IQ controversy , which I thought distorted to the point of newsworthiness . |
| 24 | I know that er the seminar which I attended sparked off quite a lot of lively er debate . |
| 25 | You had an anonymous female voice , which I assume belonged to Brenda Kelly , the producer , occasionally asking a question or providing a short commentary , but usually the people who appeared on the programme spoke for themselves , to camera , about their music . |
| 26 | but I , I 'd like to go and ask there some time whether they did Oh that 's the one for sale which I saw advertised in the paper today |
| 27 | All was quiet inside my Spidertop which I 'd tucked under my belt . |
| 28 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 29 | His arrival had jolted me back into a proper appreciation of my problems , which I 'd pushed aside in my enjoyment of Mala 's warmer mood . |
| 30 | ‘ When I was ten , my Dad bought me a guitar for Christmas , which I 'd asked for , but at the same time he enrolled me at the local golf club ! |