Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first was the Camattini family , who left La Spezia , the great port and naval base on the Ligurian Sea which everyone expected to be bombarded by the British Fleet . |
| 2 | He always stands strategically in corners at parties or similar wasteful gatherings of the wasted , his glass tilted in his hand , his broad back against the wall , talking all the while in those low , resonant yet rather monotonous tones which everyone listens to with a sniggery sort of attention . |
| 3 | There was in fact retaliation in any case , and it might even be argued that this silence on the part of the radio — which everyone knew to be under government control — actually encouraged angry Luos to believe that a Kikuyu conspiracy existed within the Government . |
| 4 | For Assiter , fantasy is not just a harmless and essentially solitary activity in which everyone engages to a greater or lesser extent , but is something which also has an effect on the way people behave towards others , and on the way they may feel they can justifiably treat each other , particularly women . |
| 5 | I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available . |
| 6 | A soft pattering followed which I took to be matches falling around the receiver . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well I er do n't agree that there has been er understaffing and in the statement which I made to the House today I was able to point out what a very big increase in er the total complement of the prison officers has taken place during recent years , but it 's up to Lord Justice Woolf to look in to whatever evidence is put before him , it 's for him to look at the terms of reference and he will no doubt decide what is relevant and what is not . |
| 9 | I can taste the liquor in my throat , which I drank to still the pain in my heart . ’ |
| 10 | There were dots in some of the distant fields which I assumed to be sheep . |
| 11 | However , I would also like to remind him that I wrote in response to a report which I assumed to be factual . |
| 12 | As I flew the approach I observed quite a tall tree on the threshold , which I assumed to be the obstruction . |
| 13 | At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand . |
| 14 | And the remaining difference which I estimate to be one thousand five hundred , is really the I think is the difference in the treatment of students . |
| 15 | The distortion on the unit , which I expected to be awful , is actually very good , although I do n't think it quite lives up to Ibanez 's claim that the unit could serve as a preamp , when linked to an amplifier . |
| 16 | The end result is an extremely well-written , amusing narrative which I commend to everyone fortunate enough to have known the Club and particularly to those who will know it in the future . |
| 17 | A useful approach , is to be found in Dawson and Stevens , Family Proceedings Court ( 1991 ) which I commend to practitioners in this field and to justices and their clerks . |
| 18 | The Covenanting pictures of Sir George Harvey are the very near realization of that which I refer to . |
| 19 | Secondly , it causes the lights to be surrounded by a ring of light , which I refer to as their halo . |
| 20 | Secondly , it causes the lights to be surrounded by a ring of light , which I refer to as their halo . |
| 21 | I therefore went into a meeting at in December and er we were presented with a report , we did n't receive it before the meeting , it was taken at the meeting and we said that we would n't discuss it if it related to night flights and again I wrote immediately back to the department of transport and I suggested that they should erm spend the report which I refer to , monthly figures of night flights so that the night flights could be monitored . |
| 22 | Thus was I punished for wanting to go to these places , which I knew to be prisons for God . |
| 23 | I wanted to choose for myself , yes , but I also wanted to escape into a world of certainties , which I knew to be unreal while desperately wanting to believe that it might have some reality . |
| 24 | I said I was n't sure , but I gave them a phone number which I knew to be Nassim 's office above a leather warehouse in Brick Lane . |
| 25 | Léandre Schlegel ( 1844–1913 ) is represented by the sixth , somewhat characterless , piece of Der arme Peter , which I assume to be a ‘ suite ’ of some sort ( Willem Noske 's otherwise intelligent and informative notes do not tell us ) . |
| 26 | You will , I fear , have found my monosyllabic utterances rather unrewarding material for linguistic analysis ( which I assume to be the philosophical method you are following ) — and my frequent silences even more intractable . |
| 27 | This overt intervention in our lives was experienced by me as entirely beneficent , so I find it difficult to match an analysis of the welfare policies of the late forties which calls " the post-war Labour government … the last and most glorious flowering of late Victorian liberal philanthropy " , 6 which I know to be correct , with the sense of self that those policies imparted . |
| 28 | Perhaps if I start by saying that er I have er produced a one page summary which was n't with my er initial statements , which I passed to Mr and to Mr , but if I could er pass copies of that to yourself and to the panel . |
| 29 | Yes Mr Chairman , erm I shall move the obvious suggested resolution with amendments which I wish to be circulated in the last . |
| 30 | Erm with without a new settlement erm that that was indeed the the impression that erm I was left with as well , and what what we 've sought to do in in the evidence that we 've we 've put before you is to take the nine seven , nine thousand seven hundred figure in Greater York , and and er s based on the data supplied by the County Council to demonstrate that that actually when one looks at outstanding commitments erm with planning permission , identified the sites er without planning permission , those those that are allocated in local plans , making suitable allowances for small sites erm windfall sites and conversion , erm the the residual figure that is left in Greater York , which I calculate to be eight thousand six hundred and thirty seven , once one has taken away completions , which I think is an agreed figure between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three of one thousand and sixty three , that erm , those existing commitments , and the sites likely to come forward , ma virtually match the figure for the outstanding housing requirement , so so one is left with a view that erm from from the data that 's put in front of us that there is n't a residue of that size to accommodate , although I accept that there may well be a residue of some sort , erm and it seems to me that the established Greater York erm framework , er is is the process by which that is distributed around the counties along the lines that the discussion 's proceeded this morning . |