Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 2 | The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November . |
| 3 | except for the last one which I missed off the last time . |
| 4 | In terms of Julia Kristeva 's model , which I introduced in the last chapter , this would be a first stage , liberal equal-rights-and-opportunities response . |
| 5 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 6 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 7 | Isaiah 's vision , which we heard in the first lesson , is of future deliverance . |
| 8 | I must thank you for replying so promptly to the questionnaire which we enclosed with the last issue of The Birmingham Magazine . |
| 9 | It was a pleasant walk along well-trodden paths through Birbeck Woods beyond which we came upon the first set of workings in Gunnerside Gill : the remains of dressing floors belonging to the Old Gang Mining Company . |
| 10 | First we need to start with the ‘ givens ’ of the situation — the objective features of the predicament which we reviewed in the first part of the last chapter . |
| 11 | The distinction between grammar and lexis which we used in the last chapter cuts across this distinction between levels . |
| 12 | The example of Barth which we examined in the first chapter is one form of reaction . |
| 13 | If a crack begins to.penetrate into the wood across the grain , the Cook-Gordon mechanism — which we discussed in the last chapter — comes into operation in the region around the crack tip and the various cells become separated so that each of them operates as an independent helix , something like a drinking straw . |
| 14 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 15 | The group had held a press conference two days earlier at which they called on the Fourth Communist Party Congress ( Cuarto Congreso del Partido Comunista ) to instigate radical political reforms and also attempted to distribute a statement to this effect to Congress delegates . |
| 16 | Such was the powerful rhetoric of Grimm and Jean-Jacques Rousseau that the very conducting habits in Paris which they denigrated in the mid-18th century seem to have affected all views about practice during the following decades . |
| 17 | Between 1840 and 1880 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels criticized and restructured the ideas they gleaned from all three sources , and combined them into a potent synthesis which they acclaimed as the first ‘ scientific socialism , . |
| 18 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 19 | In August 1971 , the same year in which he married for the second time , Canetti 's brother , Georg , was dying . |
| 20 | Any way Sunderland came out pumped up and we hardly got a touch before Goodmans strength made an opening from which he scored in the 6th minute . |
| 21 | Little is known of Francis Wright 's early years , but in 1830 , on the retirement of his father , he became the senior partner in Butterley , which he dominated for the next forty-three years . |
| 22 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 23 | He was a champion of 19th century book illustration , which he regarded as the last relatively unexplored corner of the English artistic tradition . |
| 24 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |
| 25 | What I said at the last committee was I merely advised the committee that if they went ahead in this current financial year that the grant would not be available . |
| 26 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 27 | Indeed , is this not what you advised in the first place ? |
| 28 | follow the detailed reasoning or argument ; 2. note what you missed at the first reading ; 3. if you own the book , you may mark key points ; and 4. if you do n't own the book , note key points . |
| 29 | ‘ Although you should n't need to hear it , and you should never have believed what you did in the first place … |
| 30 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |