Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 2 | The only politics which I saw representing them are those organised by tenants and feminists campaigning primarily around housing , health and children . |
| 3 | None of the nurses spoke to me , nothing , till 2 o'clock that afternoon , which I 'd had her at 7.30 in the morning … |
| 4 | Often I suggest to children that the piece of paper could be used for learning about the subject they 've decided on , or which I 've given them , in any way they feel is right . |
| 5 | and your point in this context , it , as I say the context in which I 've asked you to address me , I suppose you would say , erm given the matters are arguable or whatever the test is under those issues , er , nevertheless if you allow the case that 's been put up , erm , either by way of defence or by way of set up or by way of counter claim to impede the collection of funds , erm , then er you are not then you are erm , erm taking a measure which could could , jeopardize the of the objectives of this treaty , er whereas I image you will say , or you might say , I do n't know , erm , provided this does n't impede the collection of central funds erm , in the meantime , if er the defendants wish to pursue their counterclaim to trial then er , there 's nothing to prevent them from doing so |
| 6 | ‘ This is not the mood , these are not the spirits , in which I 've known him at home . |
| 7 | Not that I am deliberately distorting or mis-speaking our findings , but because I have selected and imposed an order on the research which suits my theoretical and creative purposes and which therefore paints nature in the colours in which I wish to view it . |
| 8 | ‘ These are facts of which I meant to remind him . ’ |
| 9 | He seemed so pleased with himself that I could n't help saying that I should mind them very much myself but that I had no objection to his wearing them — a view which I believed surprised him . |
| 10 | As the outcome bears no relation to either an efficient market or the declared aims of government policy , it sets up pressures for those who feel injured to seek political solutions , which mean greater government intervention and greater inefficiency — a treadmill with which I regret to say we are all too familiar in the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | Susanna Wesley spoke with her daughter in October and prayed that she would be given true repentance , ‘ without which I desire to see her face no more ’ . |
| 12 | The only occasions on which I had seen them in operation they had failed lamentably . |
| 13 | Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had . |
| 14 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 15 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 16 | I collect and season most of my wood , which I feel gives me a head start over the clinical pieces available at timber yards . ’ |
| 17 | In this talk I want us to consider an image which I believe takes us a little closer to the meaning of the cross — the image of reconciliation and representation . |
| 18 | Which I believe makes it that much more powerful than showing the vial and whatever . |
| 19 | In part 2 the author has given you the option of turning off those infuriating flashing lasers and electric grills , which I found helped me to think a little easier but , alas , did n't help me in solving the problem . |
| 20 | I had to read it , a little of it , and if listeners never hear any good of themselves , then the little which I read shamed me forever . |
| 21 | Derek 's mother was my great-aunt 's daughter which I think made him a half cousin to me . |
| 22 | And people have heard it which I think helps us in the long run . |
| 23 | He hit the pin halfway up and it was going like a rocket — — that was the shot which I think won us the Open . |
| 24 | Erm , matters have moved on from than then in terms of the er additional P P G guidance which I think makes it quite clear , as as you 've already s said that erm we should be as transparent as possible in our allocations and levels for provision for employment development . |
| 25 | It 's one of these which I think did I give you initially ? |
| 26 | I mean it 's not just letting the excesses go which I think understand it when you first said it , so that idea in itself is a Party idea , it 's not just letting the , the peasants do it and say well okay what you 're trying to say now is that okay that we have got this strategy , we 'll let the excesses go and then we 'll stop it , we get to about stage B and stage C and move on and move on . |
| 27 | My first attempt on these hills ended at about 1500 feet when two of us were simply blasted off , which I suppose served us right for even setting out on a morning dark and grey as a used Brillo pad . |
| 28 | My wife began , I know not whether by design or chance , to enquire what she should do , if I should by any accident die , to which I did give her some slight answer , but shall make good use of it to bring myself to some settlement for her sake , by making a will as soon as I can . ‘ |
| 29 | He found himself able to distinguish the Manchester Corporation case [ 1891 ] 1 Q.B. 94 , by which he was technically bound , on grounds which I have to say I find unconvincing , as did Morland J. Browne J. said , at p. 178 : |
| 30 | Thus , in 1973 , we are no wiser than we were in 1948 : the experience of twenty-five years has shed no more light upon the question , does the death penalty deter ? than was available at the beginning — except perhaps that the neutrality of the evidence , which I have explained I find so logically impressive , has been reinforced . |