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Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby .
2	I conclude that which I took so much pains about will never come to thy hands .
3	He 's got a really good band now , too , which I saw about three months ago .
4	And I have lots of letters which I discovered about five years ago , which I thought were probably letters that my father had written it , Adam , because his name and my grandfather 's name were exactly the same .
5	Indeed , the next months were taxing in a different way , culminating in my appointment to a post in Bahrein for which I had little enough relish .
6	On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own .
7	I had blank sections under my topic headings on paper in which I wrote very brief notes at the time and these were expanded more fully immediately after the interviews while my memory was still fresh .
8	I bought a long yearned for Gimson and Slater leather suite at an outrageous cost of £600 which I paid unfailingly each month over a year .
9	I am the ‘ concerned parent ’ who initiated the survey of modes of travel to Currie High School which you filled in last year .
10	In this situation you will automatically revert to those fixed-wing reflexes which you spent so much time in developing and they can lead you sadly astray !
11	Mike let her go with rueful amusement in his dark eyes as she made her way towards the lift , having refused all offers of help with her overnight bag , which she slung over one shoulder .
12	Her hair was done on top like a cottage loaf with bits dangling around her ears , in which she had long red glass earrings , and peeping out from under the long russet-coloured dress were her brand new button-up boots .
13	She had dark-brown , shiny eyes and a tanned , muscular frame on which she hung brightly coloured blouses and skirts .
14	As for Monica Seles , her desire to play at Wimbledon this year , coupled with the fact that she already has the Australian title under her belt , might be all the incentive that she needs to go for that Grand Slam this year , that same Grand Slam which she passed up last year with her refusal to play the British leg of the four majors .
15	Having thus resigned herself to the passive lifestyle of a semi-invalid literary lady , she became a regular contributor to the Spectator , then edited by her father 's close friend Richard Holt Hutton [ q.v. ] , in which she published over fifty articles between 1880 and 1893 .
16	When General Ayub Khan said , ‘ Martial Law is now imposed , ’ both cousin Zafar and I understood that his voice — that voice filled with power and decision and the rich timbre of my aunt 's finest cooking — was speaking a thing for which we knew only one word : treason .
17	Following a stately early development , the TSB Group is now undergoing rapid change — new products , new services , new technology , even new companies such as United Dominions Trust , the instalment credit company which we took over last year .
18	Counselling ended with our third session , at which we wrote down this couple 's agreed terms for marriage .
19	The reconstruction of our control tower and the field from which we flew so many missions , is a beautiful reminder and a lasting memorial to all the men in Three- Ninetieth .
20	Instead , I wrote a short paper with Jan Moss in the same journal in which we pointed out this problem with the bubble and showed how it could be resolved .
21	As well as being taught the basic techniques of childcare , some girls may also need to learn how to give and take love , if they have come from environments in which they experienced very little love and affection .
22	By September 1991 , a combination of the impact of the recession , the high fixed costs of the Newport office and the loans to pay off the four partners had landed the firm with a £1.65m debt , £1m of which they saw as long-term borrowing and £650,000 as their working capital requirement .
23	I am certain that with no additional resource , we can do more for our researchers than provide then with yet another data archive where they can deposit the materials which they developed with inadequate support and for which they got too little recognition .
24	The Stones resigned from the Football League , which they joined just three years ago , unable to fulfil their fixtures .
25	West Hartlepool registered their expected win put up fighting resistance in losing 22–4 in stark contrast to their previous two matches , in which they conceded over 80 points .
26	West Hartlepool registered their expected win put up fighting resistance in losing 22–4 in stark contrast to their previous two matches , in which they conceded over 80 points .
27	She cooked the turkey and booted the uncles ' wives out of her way when they came cluttering into the kitchen trying to help , i.e. interfere , which they did unfailingly each year .
28	Condy eliminated unprofitable product lines and made significant improvements to production methods , for which he took out fifteen patents over the period from 1852 to 1888 .
29	Legislation in the nineteenth-century Russian Empire looks like a series of royal fiats , but the laws whch freed the serfs emerged from a process which the tsar barely understood and over which he had only partial control .
30	A FORMER head of a council children 's home was jailed for four years yesterday for indecency against young boys in his care which he committed almost 15 years ago .