Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [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 | Then there is that recipe for a sauce for lobster which I came across in a French dictionary of cooking of the 1830s . |
| 3 | I wrote the above lines several years ago about a site which I visit regularly as an indication of the sort of way in which we might best approach sacred sites in the landscape . |
| 4 | I had fewer than a hundred rounds for the gun which I kept solely as a deterrent for those remote places where cruising yachtsmen are seen as plump victims , ripe for pillaging , and the Webley offered me good protection for , though the gun was over seventy years old , it was massively built and frighteningly powerful . |
| 5 | Another beautiful volume was The Rosary by Florence M. Barclay which is a story intertwined with a song which I heard once on a record sung by Paul Robeson . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bella lit a cigarette , which she smoked now with a holder . |
| 9 | Sybil had composed a poem about dead flowers , each quatrain ending with the line ‘ And the spent petals fall , one by one , to the ground ’ , which she read aloud to a receptive audience , a note of melancholy in her voice and a trace of moisture dimming her eyes . |
| 10 | At first people were suspicious ; they could not understand why she was so interested in these details , which she wrote down in a schoolbook . |
| 11 | But Finn came and sat beside her and gave her another cream bun , which she accepted gladly as a token of friendship , although she did not want it . |
| 12 | He had quite a cheerful blaze going by the time she came back , with an armful of twigs and berries which she arranged artistically in a vase on the table . |
| 13 | In her column , which she used almost as a diary , she gives a charming account of the early encounters . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Madame looked at her through a veil of smoke which she fanned away with a jewelled hand . |
| 16 | I could still read the name of the English toffee manufacturer on the lid which she prised off with a knife . |
| 17 | Through his determination and vitality Browning led Elizabeth Barrett from the sick-room in which she languished almost as a prisoner and ‘ carried her into the light and sunshine ’ , inspiring her finest poems and being inspired in turn to write his greatest works . |
| 18 | She wrote an article about evangelical Christianity , in which she complained bitterly about a particular writer , a Doctor Cumming , who she said was not merely intellectually dishonest in attempting , by slipper means , to reconcile traditional Christian belief with certain new kinds of discovery in archaeology and so on , but he was also lacking in charity and the way which he hammered everybody who did n't subscribe to his particular form of religious believe did n't seem to her to be anything to do with the true spirit of Christianity , so she was discontented with that form of Victorian religion . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Some principles of association that emerge are that solitary hunters feed on prey they can subdue individually which they kill suddenly after a stealthy approach . |
| 21 | The upper half of their beak has a hook in it with which they latch on to a flower . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The jibes of the kids at his scattered schools , which he attended sometimes for a token day or two to throw a sop to the government , struck him as neither here nor there . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | His grey hat , which he swept off with a flourish as the ladies approached , was set at a jaunty angle . |