Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] have [verb] " 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 Taken as a whole , the 1950s can be seen as a decade in which everyone had to work very hard just to keep the District on an even keel : it reflects great credit on all concerned that , in statistical terms , the decline of the early fifties was halted so that ultimately an expansionist phase could begin .
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 True art and architecture collaboration is a process in which everyone has to define his own limits .
7 Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Which poet described a politician as ‘ an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man ’ ?
11 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 . ’
12 In fact it was papier-mache on which someone had done a skilful paint job .
13 The window behind the altar had been replaced with a piece of board across which someone had scrawled in black paint ‘ This side up ’ .
14 Close to him was a short , narrow ledge , to which someone had lashed the corpse of a young man .
15 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 .
16 Ten seconds in which someone had stopped breathing .
17 A six-pack of beer , which someone had forgotten to stow away , slid back and forth across the cabin floor , over and over again .
18 Wendell stared down at the glass of brandy which someone had put into his hands .
19 He shuffled a bit at that , shrinking into his green trenchcoat which someone had told him was yuppily fashionable .
20 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 .
21 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 ?
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 All was quiet inside my Spidertop which I 'd tucked under my belt .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 ‘ 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 !
29 Which meant if I did it in year three , which I 'd liked to , then you 'd obviously equal or went into drama .
30 They made no effort to withdraw , or temper their gaze or remarks , and I struggled to maintain the sort of meditational dispassion which I 'd observed in my cat on its box .
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