Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [vb past] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally I used five centimetres of narrow lace which I gathered and stitched around the neck to form a collar . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Just made a note of what I said and said thanks very much . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So much for what I saw and thought . |
| 19 | I responded like a monkey to what I saw and smelled , but in full awareness of the two flavours , in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 20 | What I saw and read was ‘ Our Father which art in Heaven ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Did I like what I saw and heard ? |
| 23 | I tried to put what I knew and surmised into the context of other sports . |
| 24 | But what I knew and felt kept interfering . ’ |
| 25 | I kept hugging myself as I imagined over and over telling Marcus what I knew and reassuring him that it would n't make any difference to us . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought you were interested in me as a person , interested in what I felt and believed . |
| 27 | So I just kept on my way , letting then all come along for the ride , while I hunted for confirmation of what I suspected and feared about Gharr . |
| 28 | I can look for reasons for what I did and call those reasons excuses ; what he did to Alice , how he bullied Mother , how I hated him . |
| 29 | Previous to my arrival in Sydney , I was at a stage of uncertainty as to what I did and did not believe . |
| 30 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |