Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.

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1 In both cases I worked on oil on panel which I later fixed to the walls .
2 The landlord wants a months deposit and another month 's rent in advance which I already paid to the agency .
3 As time went on , and particularly by the early Seventies , I began to question whether one could take this point of view in a situation where things were going on which I clearly saw to be ‘ bad ’ .
4 Well this year 's capital expenditure will be around twenty five million and last year 's figure was twenty three million the point I was making in the speech was that twenty three million included nine million pounds for the , we must have some static in our nine million pounds for the purchase of freeholds , erm but the capital expenditure this year is spread right across the operation includes introduction of erm re-fits in a number of stores includes expansion in France , investment in systems and hardware and indeed also includes ah about five million pounds for a retail park development which I also referred to the park development on which we have an interest in the sense that we are developing an M F I store .
5 ‘ I began reading politics early on but also my parents taught me that the greatest value was compassion , which I undoubtedly linked to the Labour Party . ’
6 We 've also submitted er on your behalf er motions to the er regional conference er and to the er Cardiff er federal conference , which I mistakenly referred to as a national conference .
7 Even the family allowances , though based in their present form upon the experience and conditions of the inter-war years — when Seebohm Rowntree 's surveys in York suggested that one male in four earned less than was necessary to maintain a man , wife and two children above the poverty line — consist of a simple system of payments and enter into budgetary habits and expectations no more and no less than the fiscal allowances , of which I once suggested to a CPC conference they might be regarded as an extension .
8 We did a great deal of work with music and in listening to sounds and in rhythms , and then a lot of work in which I actually read to him and he followed all the time what I was reading , so that he would try to link the sounds and the words together .
9 Looking through the contents list of the first edition of Observations , I cam across the following titles — ‘ Money from SOED ’ , ‘ Local Authority Support for Teacher Research ’ , ‘ Classroom Observation ’ and ‘ Your Observations ’ , and I realised that the report of a small scale study which I recently submitted to RIU contained all these features .
10 So I got er experience of three months now , that was really very nice experience which I always wanted to be a teacher although I did n't join here .
11 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 .
12 And Madame Dietrich describes this in a letter which she later wrote to her brother .
13 In a conversation which she later recalled to friends Diana told him : ‘ You looked so sad when you walked up the aisle at the funeral .
14 He was particularly scathing about the feather , which she immediately agreed to be a mistake .
15 Although alienating some support by her excessive regard for the physiologically and morally uplifting properties of semen , she emphasized the erotic , mystical , and fulfilling aspects of sexual relations and for these reasons rejected the use of coitus interruptus and the condom , recommending instead the use of the vaginal rubber cap and the quinine ( spermicidal ) pessary which she naïvely believed to be generally available in chemist 's shops and which have never , in the event , proved to be very popular .
16 Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard .
17 She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place .
18 The suggested the distinctive Volvo 460 , which we duly put to the test .
19 Which we still read to this day .
20 First , we tried a direct approach and ground up polarizing region cells and put the mixture into agar blocks which we then grafted to the anterior margin .
21 The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love .
22 To make matters worse , the college authorities interpreted it as a reflection on the conduct and organization of the society , which they accordingly ordered to be disbanded with immediate effect .
23 If in the judgment of the police authorities , formed reasonably and in good faith , the garrison was necessary for the protection of life and property , then they were not entitled to make a charge for it , for that would be to exact a payment for the performance of a duty which they clearly owed to the appellants and their servants ; but if they thought the garrison a superfluity and only acceded to Mr. James 's request with a view to meeting his wishes , then in my opinion they were entitled to treat the garrison duty as special duty and to charge for it … … .
24 The researchers fed the emerging larvae , which they later found to be equally male or female , on sloth hair ( on which a green algae often grows ) , sloth dung , and leaves from those trees on which sloths generally feed .
25 As they moved from one to another , they collected meals of pollen and paid for them by becoming covered in excess pollen which they involuntarily delivered to the next flower they visited .
26 In Covent Garden , Luttrell tells us , " the image of the French king was made and drawn in a chariot , and over his head in capital letters was wrott , Lewis the greatest tyrant of fourteen " , which they eventually committed to the flames .
27 Police searching the plaintiff 's premises for stolen goods seized goods which they mistakenly thought to be stolen .
28 On the other hand , princes felt free to vent their own anger in ways which they now blocked to others .
29 The custodianship of the path had become the prerogative of a few specialists with a fund of empirical knowledge which they gravely applied to securing the smooth passage of the Wheel .
30 But although they were terrified of the Magistrate , who in more peaceful times had so often savaged their verses , the ladies in the billiard room stoutly refused to volunteer for the banqueting hall , which they wrongly believed to be more dangerous than the Residency except for Lucy , who was generally acknowledged to have nothing to live for anyway .
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