Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any one of us may also apprehend an individual whom we know to be , or whom we have reasonable grounds for suspecting to be , guilty of such an offence as long as it has been committed . |
| 2 | Egg and bacon on each plate but one and on this one a dried up , curled-up-with-age piece of smoked fillet , or what we called finney haddock . |
| 3 | At the Dunn Nutrition Laboratory in Cambridge , Dr John Cummings has built his reputation on the importance of dietary fibre ( or what he calls non-starch polysaccharides ) . |
| 4 | How does that help us in the outside world if people know that we we give good training ? |
| 5 | She was absolutely convinced that what she liked other people wanted too ; a canny instinct which she used always as her guiding principle and from which no one could shake her . |
| 6 | In the enterprise of seeking to understand consciousness as something more manageable and decently scientific than what it calls ghostly stuff , it is understood as yet less than ghostly stuff . |
| 7 | Yeah , would you , but a couple of years because John was busy he bought us all tokens , erm , he bought the others tokens from Woolworths and me token from a body shop and we all , and I we had great fun looking and seeing what we wanted to buy with , with the book tokens , er , maybe , maybe I mention it providing we ca n't find anything . |
| 8 | She wanted to find out what it was like , Antoinette in the cellar , Madeleine in the big marital bed , their mysterious life in the arms of men , the embrace which the daughter was banned from and which they told endless lies about . |
| 9 | It had been unnecessary , of course , for her to mention that the silver was one of my father 's main responsibilities and one he took great pride in . |
| 10 | What a fine piece of historical irony it would be if from the heart of this wounded part of Europe there were to emerge a politics that would begin to show us how to be at home in the world , decently balancing the requirements of social justice and economic sufficiency , of finite nature and what we call human nature . |
| 11 | Rosin and Glatt ( 1971 ) differentiated between primary factors which caused chronic , long-term alcohol abuse , chiefly pathological personality characteristics such as neuroticism , and what they called reactive factors which were particularly relevant for late-onset drinkers . |
| 12 | Heinsch saw sacred geometry and what he called sacred geography as being part of a continuum stretching out from the structure and form of the building into the surrounding countryside . |
| 13 | SHL Systemhouse , the new owner of the remains of Interactive Systems Corp — now minus the Lachman technology piece ( see front page ) — is targeting client/server computing and what it calls transformational outsourcing through its new buy , thinking competitor Anderson Consulting may be asleep at the switch . |
| 14 | No Europe is n't just western Europe but I I have personal doubts about the pace of enlarging things . |
| 15 | You knew the seas were hitting the tower but you you had great faith in the stability of the tower . |
| 16 | Unless you you take electric blanket down ? |
| 17 | ‘ But as soon as he he had real problems and got unhappy with Williams , he became seriously interested in Indy racing . |