Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , if one wants to get to London , it is irrational to take a train which one should have known not to be going to London or which one wrongly calculated to be quicker than the bus . |
| 2 | Furthermore , is it not overwhelmingly likely that there are other factors involved of which we know nothing , or which we simply overlook ? |
| 3 | A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected . |
| 4 | You know , sandwiches or whatever she just have , like , but it was kind of |
| 5 | or Penelope , or what we most want |
| 6 | Sexual dysfunction or what we loosely term " deviation " may have consequences beyond the man or Woman subject to them ; and when they are encountered by the social worker they probably will already have had such consequences . |
| 7 | There is the discourse of the narrator , who may be a character or an authorial persona , who , if the latter , may be covert or overt ; and there are the discourses of the represented characters , as manifested in their direct speech , or what we usually call ‘ dialogue ’ , and as manifested in the representation of their thoughts through soliloquy , reported speech , free indirect style , interior monologue and so on . |
| 8 | It does not appear to matter whether the learners are particularly interested in this input , or what they actually do with it , or whether they are actively engaged in achieving purposeful outcomes . |
| 9 | ‘ Not what you think is right or what anyone else thinks is right . |
| 10 | To Gerald Thomas , who experienced a lot of Ken 's problems — mainly his sexual difficulties , the director remembered for me ; his dissatisfaction with a part of his life which was neither fulfilled nor which he even wanted fulfilled — Ken was ‘ a child , a child who was always showing off ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Nor what I truly think of you , ’ he echoed ; he was no fool . |
| 12 | I can not overlook that — nor what you truly think of me — which is very different from the soft and loving words you have used to me so often . ’ |
| 13 | Some of the later remodelling work was done by Francesco Maria Richini , although what we now see is in Romanesque style , even though it post-dates the period by many years . |
| 14 | That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage . |
| 15 | The students confide that what they really like is the outing , which gives them an excuse to escape from Dublin and meet the ‘ quality ’ . |
| 16 | Speaking on April 24 , ANC president Nelson Mandela said : " It is evident that what they really seek is the continued incumbency of the National Party even in the event that it loses the election . " |
| 17 | Bass guitarists included Mo Foster , and Lee Sklar who played on a track for us , but we did n't use what he did , as we felt that what we already had was better . |
| 18 | It seems that what we now know as Red Dell was earlier known as Thurdle . |
| 19 | She and I agreed that what we really envied them for was the power of crying when they are bored or , as an extreme measure , being sick . |
| 20 | I remember that one of us , I can not recall which , made the cynical remark that what we really wanted was a similar type of aircraft to the one that had crashed , in which the auto-pilot could be connected up with the flight recorder — then we investigators could just sit and watch the accident happen all over again . |
| 21 | Bernie was responsible for read-out and interpretation of FDRs in Canada and I put it to him that what we really needed was the ability to watch the accident taking place in real time , preferably by means of a DFDR providing the inputs to a flight simulator instead of the usual pilot inputs . |
| 22 | The implication is that what we really need is a properly enforced SSAP 6 approach . |
| 23 | Does not that confirm that what we really need is a continuation of my right hon. Friend 's policies , not a regional assembly for Wales , which would be an unnecessary quango that would cost the people of Wales £1 million a week ? |
| 24 | From this the inference is drawn that what he thus knows can not be physical states , or explicable in terms of such states , for physical states are necessarily publicly accessible . |
| 25 | This was certainly not necessary for the decision of the case ; but though the resolution of the Court of Common Pleas was only a dictum , it seems to me clear that Lord Coke deliberately adopted the dictum , and the great weight of his authority makes it necessary to be cautious before saying that what he deliberately adopted as law was a mistake , and though I can not find that in any subsequent case this dictum has been made the ground of the decision , except in Fitch v. Sutton ( 1804 ) 5 East 230 , as to which I shall make some remarks later , and in Down v. Hatcher ( 1839 ) 10 Ad. & El . |
| 26 | Finally , he realized that what he really felt was fear : not for her safety , but fear that she might have gone out of his life . |
| 27 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 28 | And of course sometimes during this apprenticeship Boy knew that what he really wanted was not to be taught to be one of us , not to be taught how to be a man at all , but to be reassured that he might somehow remain a boy forever . |
| 29 | Paris , unlike the journey , had its disappointments , though she realized that what she principally disliked was the position from which she was viewing it . |
| 30 | But by now she realised that what she really wanted to do was act ( she chose drama at high school to get out of English ) . |