Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [be] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q I have been given a poinsettia as an early Christmas present which I am determined to keep healthy . |
| 2 | What about the intrusion which I 'm destined to suffer ? ’ |
| 3 | My own personal favourite mountain biking route is a permissive route which I 'm authorised to use but I would n't like to advertise it . |
| 4 | Nowadays the manufacturers are producing cottons called two , three and four-ply which I 'm told knit up very well on the standard machine . |
| 5 | Of course the horse named Bess , which I was given had a mind of its own , since it would always be eating and when it was not it only plodded along . |
| 6 | Central Television came and made an interview/ documentary film for their weekly current affairs programme Central Lobby , during the course of which I was seen driving around the neighbourhood , first preceding and then followed by the camera crew . |
| 7 | Incidentally , the old man wrote Cathy a letter which I was charged to pass over unopened . |
| 8 | ‘ I was 17 years old when I committed the offence for which I was sentenced to die , and I did n't even start thinking and caring about my life until I was at least 20 . ’ |
| 9 | My hon. Friend the Member for Ashford ( Mr. Speed ) , the hon. Member for St. Helens , South ( Mr. Bermingham ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Kent ( Mr. Rowe ) touched on aspects of British Rail to which I was tempted to respond . |
| 10 | It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office . |
| 11 | I have forgotten how I picked up my copy , it may have been at a retreat which I was asked to lead at Pleshey . |
| 12 | One of erm questions which I was asked to address on this occasion was er in connection with the obtaining of new work was why erm do n't we er give financial incentives to er if they are successful in bringing in new work . |
| 13 | One incident in which I was involved followed a report from the pilot of an incoming merchant ship entering the river Thames . |
| 14 | It was in 1972 , after I had trekked to and from Rhodesia on several occasions , and the mission in which I was involved appeared to be a triumphant success , that I received a letter from Ted Heath , who asked whether it would be acceptable to me to receive a CH ( Companion of Honour ) . |
| 15 | I was very pleased , naturally , but the task of answering them all , which I was determined to do , was daunting , to say the least . |
| 16 | I sensed , without understanding the implications , that he had areas of being upon which I was forbidden to encroach . |
| 17 | When I was six my grandparents took me to see a film which I was told to observe closely because I would learn lessons about good behaviour and deportment from one of the juvenile characters . |
| 18 | I was invited to give an entertainment at the Bristol Old Vic theatre , the wonderful old Theatre Royal , the oldest extant theatre still being used in the country and one of the oldest in the world , a very beautiful place erm and I was asked if I would do an entertainment that I have called Come for the Ride which I was persuaded to concoct by my home town of Birkenhead in the North West of England . |
| 19 | I caught the sense of victory in seeing the film of Henry V — just as I had supposed that all schools were like that of Goodbye Mr Chips , which I was taken to see in 1939 . |
| 20 | I very much enjoyed this change of life , especially the 15 a week , of which I was allowed to keep half-a-crown . |
| 21 | Writing on the political humour of the Arab World , past and present , is a hazardous undertaking which I was resolved to risk , much against the advice of many friends . |
| 22 | I have a 48″×12″×18″ tank housing what I am led to believe is a Synodontis Schall Catfish of about six inches . |
| 23 | ‘ That is what I am tempted to suggest , ’ Miss Honey said cautiously . |
| 24 | In choices of means , I may pay severely for failing to recognize the equality of personal as of spatial and temporal viewpoints , if for example I lose awareness of the fact that a competitor 's need and determination is as great as mine ; but in choosing between our ends , nothing compels me to feel the pull of his inclination equally with mine , other than a recognition that it is illogical to shut my eyes in one case to what I am forced to acknowledge in the other . |
| 25 | Charlie , who did n't have a girlfriend at the time , hit back : ‘ I am an actor and doing scenes like that is what I am paid to do . |
| 26 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] To what numberless mean things did not this unmanly passion subject me ? [ to PAMELA ] My sister Davers would have had you live with her , but she would not do for you what I am resolved to do if you continue faithful and obliging . |
| 27 | I know now what I 'm meant to do ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I did what I was asked to do . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know what I was born to do . |
| 30 | Sex is n't what I was led to expect . ’ |