Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maxim on which I act at any moment is the personal rule which is guiding my behaviour — for Kant it is of the essence of voluntary action that there is such a maxim in every case . |
| 2 | Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another . |
| 3 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 4 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 5 | But should go to another factory and er hold your own in the factory you could expect to get the full money , which I did at twenty one . |
| 6 | Now unless anybody 's got a burning desire to pursue the question which I posed at two o'clock , and from my point of view I think we tested it to destruction . |
| 7 | I have therefore to agree with both the councils , that the comments you have just made and which you make at some length in your proof on this point , amount in effect to a late objection . |
| 8 | Er so if you look at their smoking erm people can fill in a kind of smoking chart in which you look at that . |
| 9 | A woman with an ‘ afflicted ’ husband told the 1888 Select Committee on Sweating that she ‘ finished ’ four pairs of trousers a day , for which she made at most 1/2d , that her wages were 4d per day less than four years previously , and that after paying her rent , she had 5/ a week on which to keep her three children , her husband and herself . |
| 10 | ‘ Ingested that from which she died at that meal ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Which she received at twenty to nine , when she was dressing for her wedding ? ’ |
| 12 | The bolas spider spins a single filament which she weights at one end with a drop of glue . |
| 13 | Then there are the Flume Rides ; long , twisty fibreglass tunnels , down which one slid at high speed , ending in a deep pool at the bottom . |
| 14 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 15 | A decent interval elapsed , during which we looked at each other rather anxiously . |
| 16 | Weiner says that in the Eighties we 've gone past the ‘ grazing ’ stage , in which we picked at this and that all day long , to ‘ refuelling ’ : the pit-stop in which we shovel food in our mouths as fast as we can . |
| 17 | I filled a syringe with a " mixed macterin " which we used at that time against the secondary invaders of distemper . |
| 18 | The realist and the sceptic think of the world as one on which we have at best a tentative grasp . |
| 19 | With the four prospective purchasers which we have at this stage it will be necessary to go through an elimination process , selecting one to proceed with and perhaps one to keep on hold . |
| 20 | And there was the er question which we posed at two o'clock , which was your reaction , reflections on |
| 21 | What we term instrumental denunciation is actually a form of reductivism ( which we discuss at this stage for convenience ) . |
| 22 | Perhaps the last occasion on which they figured at all prominently was at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia in 1856 . |
| 23 | Many people use them to build up a tax-free fund for youngsters which they get at 18 or 21 , although you are restricted to one scheme per person . |
| 24 | Many of these anxieties arise because women do not understand and can not control the physical changes which they experience at this time . |
| 25 | At this point we may ask how it is that speakers go about creating linguistically the persona which they animate at any one particular time . |
| 26 | He plays with the quintet in a quite different sense from that in which they play at revolutionary politics ; though , bemused by him , set at odds , their purposes deflected and their fantasies fed and coaxed along , it does n't seem like playing to them . |
| 27 | She remembered how the table around which they sat at High Tea , was covered with a sheet of speckled grey lino which had a strange stickiness . |
| 28 | A working compromise was reached only after Barbarossa agreed to hold the Pope 's bridle and stirrup at a formal meeting ; an act of ritual homage which he had at first refused . |
| 29 | Instead the address which he had at last been persuaded to give was in a short and narrow street off the Edgware Road , an enclave of cheap , unsmart cafés chiefly Goan and Greek . |
| 30 | And yet the mundane circumference beyond which he stepped at such times was also necessary to him : it was the circle in which he could stand and be safe . |