Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 'm boat fishing I use a plain , bodied waggler , which I shot down to a quarter inch or so off the surface . |
| 2 | I had bought an Afro wig and added hooks on to a charm bracelet , then worked out three minutes of self-deprecating material which I wrapped up in a song — Roberta Flack 's ‘ Killing Me Softly ’ . |
| 3 | Do n't zoom the lens in and out , either , but save this effect for the last shot in which you zoom out to a wide view of the garden again . |
| 4 | At first people were suspicious ; they could not understand why she was so interested in these details , which she wrote down in a schoolbook . |
| 5 | She wrapped them in a piece of pale yellow silk which she tied up with a purple ribbon , and enclosed them in a square biscuit tin which she pushed to the very back of the buffet , behind the piles of tablecloths and napkins . |
| 6 | I could still read the name of the English toffee manufacturer on the lid which she prised off with a knife . |
| 7 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 8 | The upper half of their beak has a hook in it with which they latch on to a flower . |
| 9 | That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album . |
| 10 | By the age of nineteen he was back at home , which was probably , by this time , in Yafforth about twenty-five miles from Thornton Dale , the way of development through the competitive channels of establishment institutions behind him , and his face turned towards the alternative life-style of the recluse which he embarked on with a comically home-spun rite of passage . |
| 11 | But it does mean that the job is immensely diverse , with a lot of administration and only a small element of number crunching , which he seeks out as an extra because he likes doing it . |
| 12 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |
| 13 | Walter made quite a business from stealing rationed food from the grocer he worked for and selling it on the black market , while Theo dealt mostly in men 's clothes which he shifted on to a second-hand dealer who paid ready cash . |
| 14 | Then there was one from ‘ R. Ufricks District Postmaster ’ informing residents of his area that pillar boxes with two holes in them had been ‘ put to an improper purpose ’ , which he spelled out in a way unlikely to commend itself to the Royal Mail . |
| 15 | Mr Zeman was sharply attacked in the official news media in the days following the publication of his views , which he followed up with an article in the most important samizdat newspaper , Lidove Noviny . |
| 16 | His grey hat , which he swept off with a flourish as the ladies approached , was set at a jaunty angle . |
| 17 | In addition , ‘ bounty money ’ was paid from a fund created by Michelins , the tyre manufacturers ; Guynemer , the French ‘ as des as ’ , earned before he died the huge sum of approximately 15,000 francs ( which he handed over to a foundation for wounded airmen ) . |
| 18 | But more affecting still is the first half of the record , in which he looks back with a wry , but far from dry , eye on his own childhood . |
| 19 | His income he augmented by writing pamphlets about railways , teaching an evening class in car maintenance — a subject he knew little about but which he mugged up from a handbook the night before — and , if things got bad , painting houses . |
| 20 | Alexia brought him his headset , which he slipped on like a minimalist space helmet . |
| 21 | There it has a store of food and a nest of grass and other materials in which it curls up into a ball , tucking in extremities . |
| 22 | For testing purposes , Praxis ran Unix SVR4 through a C producer and generated an ANDF version which it brought up on an ICL plc DRS6000 box using its Sparc installer . |
| 23 | What essentially what you need to do how to do is if you wan na be able to work Saturdays we need to be able to prove that in fact pound per , per item of post on a Saturday is cheaper than because the productivity in the week will be lower therefore and even at time and a half , the cost of doing an hour 's overtime for the work you get out in the week is , is less productive than doing double time with what you get out on a Saturday . |
| 24 | ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’ |
| 26 | To do this you must know : what you are capable of , what you want out of a job , and your weak spots so that you are prepared to counter any negative questioning . |
| 27 | In short , what you leave out of an essay can be as important as what you put in ! |
| 28 | Obviously what you say to another person and the way you say it will have an effect on what they say back as a response . |
| 29 | What they want out of a gang fight is a nice big bruise … that they can show around during the week . ’ |
| 30 | No , what they mean is they if it 's put in on a Thursday so it 's there so when they , whatever they get in on a Friday they can pay out then but if it 's paid in on a Friday then |