Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this raises the whole issue of the relationship between interpretation and conceptual evaluation which I touched on in Chapter 2 . |
| 2 | One job has led to another but I do remember a particular film audition which I walked out of , much to the concern of everyone , my agent , and the casting director . |
| 3 | My nocturnal escapades sometimes included visits to the school kitchens , where I ate bananas , leaving a mound of their skins conspicuously on one of the tables , and quantities of ice cream , which I scooped up in handfuls , defiling the common stock with the unhygienic touch of my individuality . |
| 4 | When I 'm boat fishing I use a plain , bodied waggler , which I shot down to a quarter inch or so off the surface . |
| 5 | erm So that there are a large number of tropical foresters now who 've been here and gone back to their own country , and one of the things which I point out to them these days is the need for public relations in their own countries , and getting information across to governments and being able to talk to economists and finance people in their own countries . |
| 6 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 7 | A Saab and a Chevrolet Camaro which I brought back with me from America . |
| 8 | I then made copies of the negatives and went into the darkroom , using pens , brushes , sandpaper , whatever came to hand , in fact to distort the images before finally re-copying to get higher contrast prints , which I finished off with selenium toner . |
| 9 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 10 | The bucket had a rope attached to its handle and I skimmed it over the stern to haul up a gallon or so of sea-water which I slammed down in front of Rickie . |
| 11 | The hon. and learned Gentleman will know that I recently had the privilege of giving the Sir George Bean memorial lecture in which I set out in some detail to the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women the basis for my approach to such matters . |
| 12 | But this would be to simplify things for , as I have argued , black kids generally come from the kind of family backgrounds which are not suited for their own educational needs — for reasons which I spelled out in the last chapter , but will summarize as ‘ neglect ’ or ‘ unattainable goals ’ . |
| 13 | I found a pass belonging to a Mrs Mulholland of Bootle which I sent on to her . |
| 14 | We did a production of The Caretaker , which I designed , directed and in which I played on for the characters . ’ |
| 15 | I must now confess something which I kept back from you in Chapter 3 . |
| 16 | Which I wrote down on the diary records side . |
| 17 | The chief of these , which I carried around with me , were my clothes . |
| 18 | The first is a transcript taken from some ethnographic research which I carried out into the culture of racism amongst young white men living on a large council estate in South London . |
| 19 | This issue of sexism has a direct relevance to the main topic of this book : a survey of housewives and their attitudes to housework which I carried out in London in 1971 . |
| 20 | So I gradually amassed armfuls of small twigs , which I carried back to my cave . |
| 21 | I made a full statement , the contents of which I rely on for my defence . |
| 22 | I introduced a weekly Sunday series called ‘ The Symphony Hour ’ , which I repeated in at least a dozen other cities around the world over the next 50 years . |
| 23 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 24 | Also following this sheet is single page of fax received from UNIVERSITY OF YORK which I read out to you this morning . |
| 25 | I had bought an Afro wig and added hooks on to a charm bracelet , then worked out three minutes of self-deprecating material which I wrapped up in a song — Roberta Flack 's ‘ Killing Me Softly ’ . |
| 26 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |
| 27 | Replacements such as furniture and curtains which I picked up in auction sales we kept in what we called the dry store . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm also trying to shake off a cold which I picked up in Belgium . ’ |
| 29 | One possible reason for its comparative success , and one which I stumbled on in all innocence at that time , was that its subject and setting were limited . |
| 30 | Are they maintained by anger from the past , which you hold on to ? |