Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thudding outside , which they felt with their feet before they heard it . |
| 2 | Nearly three years after the murder , Mr and Mrs Macaulay still share the same sense of outrage and defiance against the IRA which they felt at the time of the killings . |
| 3 | The Christian community inherited from its Jewish matrix a strong sense of being ‘ called out ’ ( the root meaning of ecclesia ) from the surrounding society which they felt to be possessed by different values . |
| 4 | Some years ago The Sunday Times invited parents ( representing a wide range of social backgrounds ) to list the things which they felt to be significant for their children in their years of primary schooling . |
| 5 | First , people can choose only among those forms of credit which they know of . |
| 6 | Barro 's question is as follows : Why should firms agree to a course of action which they know in certain circumstances will force them to do something which in advance or ex ante appears sub-optimal ? |
| 7 | This has been followed by some authorities and voluntary agencies who developed codes , which they apply in relation to the homes which they administer . |
| 8 | But while concern should motivate people , it should n't encourage them to switch off the reasonableness which they apply in other areas . ’ |
| 9 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
| 10 | Which they class as a debt free authority . |
| 11 | In what follows I am going to use a general procedure for reading texts to examine specific features of racist discourse to be found in ‘ Fighting talk ’ and ‘ The last laugh ’ and to suggest a series of questions which they raise as an agenda for further research and debate . |
| 12 | But the specific forms of hooliganism are new ; football crowds were not segregated by age before the 1960s ; youth did not congregate around parts of football clubs as their territory — they had a larger territory and community which they shared with their older male relatives . |
| 13 | He left and found a squalid flat in Brentford , which they shared with another couple and their children . |
| 14 | But colleagues at the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital recall unpleasant happenings at the nurses ' home which they shared with Allitt . |
| 15 | But the specific forms of hooliganism are new ; football crowds were not segregated by age before the 1960s ; youth did not congregate around parts of football clubs as their territory — they had a larger territory and community which they shared with their older male relatives . |
| 16 | The agreement , the first of its kind between a company and an indigenous group , aims to ensure that the Kayapo benefit from any commercial development of other materials which they harvest on their lands . |
| 17 | This " rhetoric-reality " distinction is a feature of much evaluation , and in library research has been productive for , amongst others , those involved in the LASS Project , who write of " the traditional rhetoric of sixth-form responsibility and independence " ( Hopkins and Rudduck , 1984 ) which they contrast with " the realities of sixth-form teaching and learning " . |
| 18 | It is a combat zone which they concede to the predators until morning , when they drive out their cattle again past sleeping lions and strangely reticent hyena . |
| 19 | In order to maintain living standards , marginal land was brought into cultivation causing disruption of the traditional interplay between cultivators and nomadic herders ; the former provided millet and sorghum as staple crops which they exchanged for animal products and the benefits of having their lands fertilised by animal herds . |
| 20 | The four horses , amazed by the proceedings , were led into the great outdoors which they surveyed with apathy , fear , suspicion and greed respectively , Bones tugging Hoomey irretrievably to the nearest succulent patch of weed . |
| 21 | They spend the day concealed under stones , preying at night on smaller invertebrates , which they seize with their pincer-like claws and may paralyse with their tail sting . |
| 22 | But the credit-worthiness requirements which they set for new customers are relatively stringent . |
| 23 | Teachers will find that the educational goals which they set for their visually handicapped pupils are essentially the same as for the fully sighted children in their classes and that these goals are attainable . |
| 24 | They thus need only provide care to quality standards which they set for themselves when first agreeing a contract and they can avoid being drawn into the ‘ high volume/doubtful quality ’ trap . |
| 25 | It went against all biological sense to suggest that the receptors and the elaborate physiological adaptations which they set in motion had no purpose , or had evolved in response to taking opium . |
| 26 | The Harrisons ' home was perfectly kept , equipped with all the latest devices , with its cream carpets and matching walls , with its rotisserie and dishwashing machine and its large television set on which the Harrisons played videos of their favourite movies which they swapped with a group of friends who lived around Siena . |
| 27 | Those who could not stand it returned home worn out by the virulence of anti-Irish racism which they experienced from English people . |
| 28 | When life brings them into touch again twenty years later , and they are hopelessly in love , a climactic scene takes place in an inferior tea-shop which they visit during a furtive day together in London . |
| 29 | Far away from this foray , Blenheim bombers were heading for Herdia airport , which they attacked at midday , cratering its timbered runway , while others bombed Stavanger . |
| 30 | But , for all that effort and the manner in which they attacked from the kick-off , I believe they deserved that try . |