Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The urgency of nausea brings me to Siobhan 's house without difficulty and , once there , I crumble to my knees and vomit into the toilet , after which I fall headlong into bed and sleep for three or four |
| 2 | me a pound after what I 've just done for you out there |
| 3 | ‘ After what I saw here today , I do n't believe you 're afraid of anything . ’ |
| 4 | Anyway , after what I did ter that silly ole goat at the sawmills the coppers might fink I 'm a villain an' try ter get the ole boy ter say I was there . |
| 5 | In cases about which I know only that his performance is better than mine , letting his advice tilt the balance in favour of his solution will sometimes , depending on my rate of mistakes and the formula used , improve my performance . |
| 6 | The triple alliance which I originally sought to conclude after the peace of Frankfurt and about which I had already sounded Vienna and St. Petersburg in September 1870 , was an alliance of the three Emperors with the further idea of bringing into it monarchical Italy . |
| 7 | The Triple Alliance , which I first tried to arrange after the Franco-Prussian War , and about which I had already approached Austria and Russia in 1870 , was an alliance of three Emperors , with the further idea of including the King of Italy . |
| 8 | Like my contemporaries I first attended an elementary school , about which I remember only three things . |
| 9 | But lastly I 'd like to come to the word community , about which I feel so strongly . |
| 10 | The first , about which I have mainly been talking so far , is the generality , or potential for generality , of things in the world . |
| 11 | Sums over histories also played an important psychological role in the development of physics since they led Feynman to propose his diagrammatic ideas about which I spoke so warmly at the start of this chapter . |
| 12 | The other recollection was a speech by Hanif Kureishi , the film-maker , about which I recall only how much I disliked it . |
| 13 | Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go ! |
| 14 | Fortunately , when I did we maintained a perfect climbing attitude , I completed my mission , during which I spent sometime thinking about the young airman who had done the daily inspection of the instruments , and had left the auto pilot engaged . |
| 15 | This took a little time during which I pondered uneasily on the possibility , however remote , of having to recognize the existence of additional progeny , and all that it would entail . |
| 16 | Looking back I can now see that some of the happenings through which I lived professionally were destined to be profound and far reaching in their impact and to become milestones of educational change . |
| 17 | Indeed , the next months were taxing in a different way , culminating in my appointment to a post in Bahrein for which I had little enough relish . |
| 18 | You could buy salmon , which I suspect could have come from the King 's Reach skirting Balmoral ) for 2/6d a pound ; and there was no dearth of whisky for which I had yet to acquire a taste . |
| 19 | During this month I led the life for which I had always yearned hunting big game on my own in the wilds of Africa ; but now I realized that this expedition had meant more to me than just the excitement of hunting . |
| 20 | But there is something for which I have rather more difficulty in forgiving him . |
| 21 | A purpose for which I guess even Volvo have not taken into account in their advertising budget ! ’ |
| 22 | Several of the travelling memoirists have counted 12 ; I can state with certainty that there were 14 , ten of which I experienced personally . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm afraid of dogs , but a rage the like of which I 'd never known before — and rarely since — took hold of me and I wanted to kill it , rip it limb from limb and tear at its throat with my teeth . |
| 24 | At this time I began , having been converted through reading the gospels , carefully to read the book of Acts and discovered there a level of Christian effectiveness of which I knew very little . |
| 25 | The church and state broadcasts to which he referred in his next letter were noteworthy as containing one of his own , of which I thought highly . |
| 26 | I wanted to run out of the room , back to South London , where I belonged , out of which I had wrongly and arrogantly stepped . |
| 27 | The nightmares stopped instantly after this explanation , and I was able to give lectures , stand up for myself and speak in public — all of which I had never been able to do before . ’ |
| 28 | All sorts of bits were falling off , exposing lots of snazzy metalwork and futuristic circuitry the likes of which I had never seen the likes of . |
| 29 | The bulk was in Latin , a language of which I had only the barest understanding from a single term spent in its study at Elizabeth Barton 's . |
| 30 | Then they gave us a charge sheet — it was huge , something like 23 particulars , some of which I did n't even recognise . ’ |