Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well a ponch er it 's sort of made of wood , and got a got a handle crosswise which you held in one half of it in each hand , it had a stem , and on the on the ponch itself was a sort of er piece of wood that had been er cut out to have about four , I think it was four , legs on this , you see and you used to stand over the ponch and |
| 2 | Did Tony all of this what he said about that |
| 3 | Before turning to these — set out in two stages ( see below , pp. 93 – 106 ) — we need to be clear what we mean by reflective thinking , and that pupils can do it . |
| 4 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 5 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 6 | Thus we need to be especially careful what we do with young horses so that the habits they establish are in their interests and not to their detriment . |
| 7 | ‘ Be careful what you murmur in each other 's ears , you two , ’ she advised . |
| 8 | Note that the basic approach , with very young children , is in many ways similar to that which we use with other age groups : I , the teacher , do not know . |
| 9 | An important indication ( although , as we shall see , not a sufficient one ) that a portion of a sentence is a semantic constituent is that its semantic contribution to the sentence is the same as that which it makes to other , different sentences ; in other words , it carries what is in some sense a constant meaning from context to context . |
| 10 | A typical letter was that which he wrote on 8 July 1940 : |
| 11 | As I discussed the history of changes in prisons with officials or ex-officials of TDC , or colleagues at the Criminal Justice Center , I came to think that the most logical order in which to look at the contemporary response to the questions that Howard raised was not the same as that which he followed in those chapters . |
| 12 | I have tried to mention the more common diseased which we see in young foals . |
| 13 | You feel more confident do n't you in a group situation if you know exactly what people er er know or what they do n't know , cos there 's nothing worse is n't there than to go in and thinking they may already know this , I might be going in an teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here , I 'm not sure what they know about this . |
| 14 | And I think er , I 'm hoping , sh , not quite sure what we decided about that . |
| 15 | Fabia was not sure what she expected after that . |
| 16 | Franca , now gathered into Marcus 's attempt , was saying in her mind , Oh let it be all right , let it be all right , not sure what she meant by this , whether that Marcus should revive Patrick , or whether simply that Marcus should ‘ get away ’ without some positive disgrace , some catastrophe or shameful happening . |
| 17 | and you 're if you think , Ooh I 'm I 'm not quite sure what he means by that . |
| 18 | I 'm not sure what I believe in any more . |
| 19 | The problem is , I 'm not sure what you do with all the spare time these two machines ( and all the rest ) suddenly provide . |
| 20 | And as the former were also comparable with the pavement from Great Witcombe , the latter exhibit similar , fairly close parallels with mosaics 7 , Verulamium ( pls. 20 ) , ( closer than those which they share with any other mosaic in this group ) . |
| 21 | We have felt obliged to play up those special things which we alone do and to keep quiet about those which we hold in common . |
| 22 | This particular comment was too good to be kept secret and so did the rounds of Parisian society , but in general what everyone remembered about these gala occasions was the sheer splendour of it all , to which the guests themselves contributed by the richness of their uniforms or , in the case of civilians , the elegance of the men and the style of the women . |
| 23 | ‘ I sometimes think , ’ said one of the proponents , ‘ that what we need in this country is a dictatorship . |
| 24 | Herbert complained of heat and hardship , declaring that what he longed for most in the world was a marble bathroom with warm scented water and soft towels . |
| 25 | Oh right are these of , what did you have , is that what you had before one of these with the bits of carrot on |
| 26 | It just was n't true what they said in those commercials . |
| 27 | It 's true what they say about that . |
| 28 | As he gets out of his chair , I ask him if it 's true what they say about short men . |