Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nor what I truly think of you , ’ he echoed ; he was no fool . |
| 2 | In this he stated his loyalty to the ‘ Church of England , whose faith and government and worship are … free from the extremes of irreverence and superstition … and which I firmly believe to be a sound part of the Church universal ; and which teaches me charity to those who dissent from me ’ . |
| 3 | I hold another creed , which no one ever taught me and which I seldom mention , but in which I delight and to which I cling , for it extends hope to all , it makes eternity a rest a mighty home , not a terror and an abyss . |
| 4 | Like all scientific findings , mine are actually nothing but readings on meters , printouts on papers , numbers derived from machines ( nothing but pointer-readings , the positivist philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach called such observations back at the beginning of this century ) , which I manipulate to extract meaning and which I then endeavour to extrapolate back to stand for , to represent , deductions about the behaviour of molecules , cells and organisms in the real world . |
| 5 | The Box sent by the Herald and which I accidentally found in a warehouse in South Australia was as near being lost as possible . |
| 6 | ‘ and what I particularly like is the way that they make you feel so welcome . |
| 7 | And what I most remember is the wonderfully happy way that you and he taught together — each taking up when the other left off so freshly and amusingly . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this . |
| 9 | As already stated the purpose of Purgatory is cleansing and what I now want to examine is how the necessary cleansing is effected . |
| 10 | All was well algae-wise apart from a smear of brown algae on the glass , some beard algae on the bogwood and on some of the slow-growing plants and what I now know to be the tell-tale sign of a thin greasy film on the water surface , which is present long before it thickens up into slime algae . |
| 11 | ‘ I shall die and what I now feel will be longer felt . |
| 12 | When I revisited the place in 1974 , I found it at once grim and beautiful , at once an irrelevance to my present life and a painfully inevitable part of what I was , what I am , and what I always shall be . |
| 13 | And what I really need is another card for my purse ! |
| 14 | A great magnificent image that I did n't want to use as material for a silly magazine article , but which I just could n't resist sharing with everyone I knew and did n't know . |
| 15 | When I rejoined the conversation you were talking about your ‘ strikers ’ and your ‘ defenders ’ , by which I for a moment thought you meant the miners and their supporters , but which I then understood to be part of an extended football metaphor and to refer respectively to your Policy Unit and your Private Office . |
| 16 | In the first case , I remember watching the old man come slowly down the stairs after ‘ a secret operation ’ never openly discussed but which I now take to be a colostomy . |
| 17 | Having realised , I suspect , at least for the time being , that they are not going to get anywhere in their fight for equal prize money at Wimbledon or the French , the Women 's Tennis Association have come up with another proposal which I know has support in some areas but which I certainly hope will also bite the dust . |
| 18 | Well that 's all very nice , very nice indeed , but what I also want is a guaranteed non-stop sex machine and that 's exactly what I got with Jack . |
| 19 | But what I dearly would like to know is why you 're always so damned suspicious ! ’ |
| 20 | After a cursory ‘ Ireland will be free , ’ the politician then adds with glee ‘ but what I really want to say is thank you mother , thank you father , thank you … ’ and heads off into the normal ‘ thank you auntie Doreen ’ award winner 's speech . |
| 21 | But what I really like is girls with small feet . ’ |
| 22 | ' — but what I really wanted to ask you , ’ said Patrick O'Sullivan , putting his hands in his jacket pockets , ‘ is what is a woman like you doing in a place like this ? ’ |
| 23 | Clockwork trains were all very well , but what I really wanted were electric trains . |
| 24 | But what I really liked was his face and we have been together for around five years . |
| 25 | ‘ But what I really need is to get a job . |
| 26 | But what I really want is for the book to be read and enjoyed by the people who read the other books . |
| 27 | ‘ But what I really do n't understand is why on earth you should think anyone of a sound mind would actually want to gain entry into your very confusing family ! ’ |
| 28 | But what I still do n't understand is , if you were schooled on this stuff , how do you know it 's wrong ? |
| 29 | said they 're all versioned but what I still ca n't get hold of is , is a copy of . |
| 30 | her book also contains a lot of dialogue which again I find really important because ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ is a very emotional story , but what I especially like about Harper Lee 's style is that she is able to add a comical aspect to some of the more serious scenes . |