Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One piece of research which I contemplated some years ago , but did not actually carry out , was a comparison between people who do go to the theatre and those who do not . |
| 2 | It also covers the competitiveness of British industry and commerce , a point to which I referred some moments ago . |
| 3 | When my right hon. Friend the Minister of State next has contact with the Indonesian ambassador , will he express the abhorrence of the House at the indiscriminate shooting of men , women and children in Dili , which I visited three years ago with other hon. Members ? |
| 4 | One moved to Woodhall Farm which I joined 11 years ago . |
| 5 | These are applications which you wrote ten years ago and they may have been written in a an old like COBOL , but they meet a business need and if they 're meeting the business need day in day out then why should you replace them ? |
| 6 | She also spent some time in her home country , Romania , which she left 20 years ago to live in the United States . |
| 7 | At an in-service course which she led three months later it was proposed and agreed that a working party should be set up to produce a draft policy for links with parents and the community . |
| 8 | Miss Asher also runs her own cake shop , which she opened three years ago in Chelsea . |
| 9 | Until she passed on , which she did two weeks past . |
| 10 | Which we made good margins on . |
| 11 | The process of reform upon which we embarked some time ago runs against some ingrained attitudes in public sector management , but they are beginning to change . |
| 12 | For instance this bit of woodland which we planted fifteen years ago — it 's becoming part of the countryside and in another generation will be here as a bit of habitat for wildlife — it 's of no monetary significance at all . |
| 13 | ‘ Project 1990 ’ , which we started two years ago , is a great help here and is a process that must and will continue . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In a fashionable area now known as Brompton Cross ( just a short walk from Harrods , Joseph and The Conran Shop ) , Linda and Neville Codling run Eastern Accents which they founded nine years ago on their return from the Far East . |
| 16 | In his account of the final stage , it is as if the unheard melody of which he had some intimation suddenly becomes audible and transposes all his experience into its terms : In my prayer I was reaching out to heaven with heartfelt longing when I became aware , in a way I can not explain , of a symphony of song , and in myself I sensed a corresponding harmony at once wholly delectable and heavenly , which persisted in my mind . |
| 17 | For McOwan he played Justin O'Connell in Waste in 1937 , the same Granville-Barker play to which he returned 48 years later , as Russell Blackborough , with the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 18 | The novel The Distant Lands , which he began twenty years later , abandoned , then took up again and finished in 1987 — a 52-year gestation ! — is dedicated ‘ to the memory of my mother , daughter of the South ’ . |
| 19 | The article unleashed a storm about his head , the more so because of his peerage , which he renounced six years later . |
| 20 | During the riot a freelance photographer sustained injuries from which he died three weeks later . |
| 21 | These attacks included sexually assaulting an elderly woman during a burglary ; heterosexual rape ; rape of women when their husbands , brothers or boyfriends were watching ; homosexual rape ( for which he got five times as long a prison sentence as for heterosexual rape ) ; as well as burglary . |
| 22 | Already , at the age of nineteen , he was experiencing the morbidity which occasionally harassed him and which he described sixteen years later in a chapter on the ‘ character ’ of Keats : |
| 23 | Frank Malton , 77 , of Acacia Street , Darlington , has called for action on a dangerous broken grating on Brinkburn Road which he reported two months ago but found yesterday that nothing has been done . |
| 24 | Britain 's top singer-impressionist told The People and friends he was planning to take the AIDS wonder drug AZT in a desperate fight against lymphoma , a rare and deadly form of cancer which he contracted four years ago . |
| 25 | Accordionist Tommy Edmondson , 58 , of Rothbury , Northumberland , has received £100 for the signature tune of the BBC children 's cartoon Captain Pugwash , which he recorded 40 years ago and was paid £2 . |
| 26 | Mahmoud was now in one of those moods in which he found implied criticism hard to take . |
| 27 | COYHAIQUE , Chile ( AFP ) — President Pinochet said he has decided to abolish the secret police which he established 16 years ago , shortly after coming to power . |
| 28 | His contribution , apart from general cooking throughout the year ( he had a small but excellent repertoire ) , was to make our bread , which he did each week unfailingly , and also the wine . |
| 29 | It was actually something of a momentous decision — and one which it seemed thirty years later was never to be repeated . |
| 30 | We must entertain doubts about Baden-Powell 's enthusiasm for Hooligans , and the extent to which it represented Edwardian wish-fulfilment rather than real accomplishment . |