Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't know which is causing the most pain or even which event grieves us the most . |
| 2 | ‘ Instead I find myself acting also in the capacity of lady 's maid and sick-nurse , for neither of which occupations have I the least experience . |
| 3 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 4 | Gratitude because of the unhesitating generosity with which Doreen gave him the hospitality of her body ; responsibility because he had ceased to be a passing visitor to that body , taking what he could get , and had become a guest , leaving behind something as a token of their intimacy . |
| 5 | Someone whose job allows them the flexibility to attend meetings and participate in programmes |
| 6 | All she had learned was that he was a man whose wife thought him the apple of her eye and who had tastes in Italian painting that were remarkably similar to her own . |
| 7 | We had a considerable degree of pity for Mrs Sugden , whose feeble-mindedness made her the butt of her husband 's callous disposition . |
| 8 | THE biggest Christmas casualty is the person whose birth gave us the excuse for rejoicing . |
| 9 | The speaker was an undoubted first-rate man whose achievements make him the greatest British theoretical physicist since Maxwell and one of the great figures of twentieth-century culture . |
| 10 | Among a certain type he invited violence but was protected from this by the proximity of Ricky Stride whose physique gave him the appearance of a bodyguard . |
| 11 | ‘ I said nothing from myself , but I prayed , and then said whatever God gave me the confidence to say … when the need arose , God opened even the ass 's mouth ’ . |