Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er a pity too and er also the villages erm in the in the area erm which I know very well and my and the Letchworth er Letchworth itself . |
| 2 | In his judgement , the Lord Chancellor said , ‘ I am seldom called upon to decide in a case in which I felt so strongly that on one side or the other there had been abominable wickedness . ’ |
| 3 | Having seen the devastation in that beautiful valley that has resulted from the conflict , and having seen the impact of terrorism , which I deplore both there and here , may I say to the Secretary of State that while , of course , the matter must first be decided between India and Pakistan , no settlement can be acceptable that is not acceptable to the people of Kashmir , both Muslim and Hindu ? |
| 4 | I was reading through back copies of MKM which I do quite often and started to read Help Line in the April '91 issue , when my husband ( who had been clearing out the attic ) came into the room with an old TV Times — Feb 1960 . |
| 5 | He was being very much the doctor , Sally-Anne noted , even through her distress , which was growing less by the minute as she regained the self-control which she had so suddenly and disastrously lost . |
| 6 | She had a vast helping of shepherd 's pie , which she put away quickly and carefully . |
| 7 | Her eyebrows , which she darkened artificially so that they no longer merged into her skin , lifted slightly . |
| 8 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 9 | One of those tricks is simply to take a lip-hold of the maggots without the hook being inside their mouths , which they do quite easily when the hook is a substantial one . |
| 10 | To help her , she is allowed to ask three people to turn round , which they do as far as possible without revealing whether or not they have the ball . |
| 11 | In the seventeenth century Herbert saw this kind of understanding as a form of prayer which he describes not only as " God 's breath in man returning to his birth " but as an illumination in terms which Rolle and Hilton would have recognised : Church bels beyond the starres heard , the soul 's bloud , The land of spices ; something understood . |
| 12 | The monthly Civil Engineer and Architects Journal , in its March edition , said that Hall was ‘ indulging the weakness of feeling annoyed that the scheme on which he had so greatly and justly plumed himself should fall into the hands of his successor ’ . |
| 13 | When he got out , he had the feeling he was n't wanted and that as an infant he was a problem to his family — a feeling which he expressed publicly long before he became aware that his sister was really his mother . |
| 14 | His left hand , bent with arthritis , curved over a stick on which he leant so heavily as to give him the appearance of physical deformity . |
| 15 | Another influence was The Girls ' Own Paper , which he liked much better than the Boys ' Own version . |
| 16 | At the end of 1864 he went to Bombay to superintend a large land reclamation scheme adjacent to the harbour , which he did so successfully that in 1873 the government of India formed the Bombay Port Trust with Ormiston as chief engineer . |
| 17 | ‘ Our witness ’ he said , ‘ is to be for goodness ’ , which he defined not only as being ‘ honest , temperate , chaste ’ and leading an ‘ upright , decent , useful life ’ , but as the spirit or motivation behind all this . |
| 18 | Okay , now erm , today as you realize with feelings of immense relief is the last lecture of the term , so , so what I 'm gon na do , is to start talking about the er , so called black books of Freud , the set texts in this , in this course and I 'm gon na start talking today about the first , and in some ways , one of the most important of these , Totem and Taboo , and since it 's the last lecture of term , and you probably all forget what I said over the Christmas holiday , and wo n't be able to recall it afterwards , through the alcoholic haze , er what I thought I 'd do today , was talk about Totem and Taboo in the way in which it looked backwards rather than forwards . |
| 19 | That is exactly what I said both then and subsequently . |
| 20 | To avoid this happening to me , I am being careful to describe what I saw as exactly and carefully as possible . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 22 | She knew it did n't matter what she decided so long as there was no doubt about it . |
| 23 | I sha n't be here , so you can ask him what you like as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |
| 24 | Do what you like so long as you do n't get caught . |
| 25 | what you put on there and that |
| 26 | ‘ Anyhow , it does n't really matter what you use so long as you 've got the right top . ’ |
| 27 | What we went out there for I haven t the slightest idea . |
| 28 | Consequently , what we get more often than not is a textureless meat with a slightly sweet taste and a gummy quality that makes stick in your teeth . |
| 29 | By way of contrast members of a moral or rule-based association share nothing other than their recognition of the authority of those practices ; sharers of a common language , for example , may say what they like so long as they comply with the canons of that language . |
| 30 | It was delightful — not only to hear two of them boast so loudly about the lotus-eating weekend but to see what they said so effectively and hilariously challenged by a person from a different social group . |