Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was lunchtime so I bought a packet of Jaffa Cakes and more lager , which I drank while waiting for the ferry to start boarding . |
| 2 | The wish to defend European freedom and democracy was central to Britain 's attitude towards the EEC and , as I have said , comprised one of the chief arguments which I deployed when campaigning for a ‘ Yes ’ vote in 1975 . |
| 3 | Finally I used five centimetres of narrow lace which I gathered and stitched around the neck to form a collar . |
| 4 | Indeed , to anticipate a little , in sixty-seven of the eighty-two cases which I observed and recorded the client announced his need and set the objective for the solicitor . |
| 5 | And his complex emotional relationship with Elizabeth , which I had but glimpsed , made the situation that much more precarious . |
| 6 | The stairs were my usual route to the ‘ hell-hole ’ in which I lived and walking up them I had to dodge numerous heaps of ‘ gunk ’ . |
| 7 | How nice to have rose coloured spectacles which must be worn by Carole Hedger ; five years in Spain without Carole 's spectacles , the Spain in which I lived and worked appeared very different . |
| 8 | This was really no more than a collage of bits and pieces of archive film , intercut with brief interviews , for which I wrote and narrated a restrained but admiring commentary . |
| 9 | For these services , and following a series of travel talks which I wrote and broadcast in the autumn of 1929 , I was made an Honorary Member of the M.J.A.R.A. , and appointed to the executive committee . |
| 10 | Time and again , however , I recognized the helplessness of the medical profession in the face of most of the genetic problems which I encountered and wondered if there were not some way in which more effective treatments for these diseases could be found . |
| 11 | I used to have a Spectrum ( sorry ) up until a year ago , and there were two really amazing games called Orc Attack and Car Wars which I loved and lost . |
| 12 | She was back promptly with a chilled wine and bread rolls with crisp brown crust and thick doughy interior , which I broke and ate with covert greed . |
| 13 | The slot for the fielded panel at the bottom of the curved members , needed a template which rested on the wood at each end of the slot to which I glued and screwed a 50 x 50 batten , the slot being routered to the correct depth in the middle and slightly oversize at each end . |
| 14 | The partners of the firm with which I trained and qualified in South Yorkshire — and probably about 130 years old now — were very much involved in the establishment of the coal mining industry , steel works , newspapers and breweries ( among others ) in that particular area . |
| 15 | Luckily we were still in time to get into the RADA auditions , which I did and got a letter from them saying ‘ not only are you rejected but we strongly advise you to think about another career ’ . |
| 16 | In the affluent 1960s he chaired a committee on which I sat and participated in the agreeable task of giving away large sums of private money to deserving research projects . |
| 17 | Von Schirach pointed out that ‘ this unlimited , almost religious veneration , to which I contributed as did Goebbels , Göring , Hess , Ley , and countless others , strengthened in Hitler himself the belief that he was in league with Providence ’ . |
| 18 | Remember , I was operating in the dark at that time , with no precise information on my enemy , no positive place of attack , motivated by what I sensed or feared . |
| 19 | Oh good brother , just what I thought that drop my jaw something I do n't know the rest of the words . |
| 20 | I rushed with him into the buildings and found what I expected and dreaded ; a small calf kicking at its stomach , getting up and down , occasionally rolling on its straw bed . |
| 21 | Right up to this minute you were unshakeable in your innocence , no matter what I said or did . |
| 22 | Just made a note of what I said and said thanks very much . |
| 23 | I sha n't be sorry to get home to Blackstone Rd , it worries me to think of the damp and the dirt , I hope you did what I said and aired all the rooms and linen like I said and got a good cleaning woman in like I said the same as with you , I hope . |
| 24 | I told her how Aisha kept a close watch on what I ate and drank and how I had to take care of the house and children to pay for my board and lodging . |
| 25 | So much for what I saw and thought . |
| 26 | I responded like a monkey to what I saw and smelled , but in full awareness of the two flavours , in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 27 | What I saw and read was ‘ Our Father which art in Heaven ’ . |
| 28 | MY diary ( and letters to my wife ) noted what I saw and heard on night duty in the guardroom of an RAF aerodrome on the weekend of September 7–8 when reports came through that big Luftwaffe daylight raids had begun on London . |
| 29 | Did I like what I saw and heard ? |
| 30 | I tried to put what I knew and surmised into the context of other sports . |