Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available . |
| 2 | A soft pattering followed which I took to be matches falling around the receiver . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I can taste the liquor in my throat , which I drank to still the pain in my heart . ’ |
| 6 | There were dots in some of the distant fields which I assumed to be sheep . |
| 7 | However , I would also like to remind him that I wrote in response to a report which I assumed to be factual . |
| 8 | As I flew the approach I observed quite a tall tree on the threshold , which I assumed to be the obstruction . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thus was I punished for wanting to go to these places , which I knew to be prisons for God . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I felt a huge emptiness in which I feared to be dissolved . |
| 15 | My method throughout was to begin faintly , after which I progressed to more definite drawing in a suitable colour or tone . |
| 16 | We shall say the same if , when the testator had instituted a sole heir , for the sake of the person who would be heir on intestacy he wrote ‘ I ask in place of the estate which I left to you , which would pass on intestacy to my brother , that you be content with 100 gold pieces . ' |
| 17 | Multiplied by three point five which I brought to a figure of a hundred and twenty six thousand five hundred and twenty seven pounds and fifty six pence . |
| 18 | Erm , a friend started a a self-help group which I went to . |
| 19 | ( All matters which I judged to be vital and contemporary ! ) |
| 20 | ( 39 ) A hand which I noticed to be surprisingly powerful . |
| 21 | To bring you all up-to-date , I enclose a copy of a memo which I circulated to the members of the sub-committee in January . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , in a " matched guise " test which I administered to a class of fourteen to fifteen year-old adolescents in the speaker 's own home area , seven out of eleven black pupils judged her to be black on the basis of an extract from the story above ( see Chapter 4 for a discussion ) . |
| 23 | As they went downstairs , Joanna said , ‘ I 've got one dress which I wore to the veterinary congress banquet . |
| 24 | I was amazed at the size of it , it felt vast , and I was put in a two-bedded room which I had to myself as the house was n't full . |
| 25 | I attach a copy of the reply I received from MacKenzie Storrie to my letter of 23 July , a copy of which I sent to you . |
| 26 | Then I thought I would try writing a thirty-minute comedy play , which I sent to ITV and asked for their comments . |
| 27 | ‘ A ludicrous , yet just image presented itself to my mind , which I expressed to the company . |
| 28 | ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character . |
| 29 | If many of Hewlett 's correspondents felt as Mrs Lowndes did , this explains why Hewlett 's letters as edited by Laurence Binyon ( 1925 ) make such unexciting reading ; she herself records that of the three hundred letters printed by Binyon there was only one ‘ which I felt to be characteristic of the man I knew so well ’ . |
| 30 | It might dilute the real body of work which I felt to be making some kind of contribution . |