Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years . |
| 2 | I 've got the first issue which I bought at the away match at the Arse earlier on . |
| 3 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 4 | As some hon. Members may know , I have some interest in that subject , and I hope that I shall be able to have an Adjournment debate in which to discuss the process by which we arrived at the present stage of the project . |
| 5 | Admittedly such corollaries as ‘ Face facts ’ , which we introduced at the very start of the discussion in the first chapter , do support their authority by the urgency of factual awareness in choices of means . |
| 6 | Through the Declaration of Ilo , the two presidents committed Bolivia and Peru to implement the terms of the Gran Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz bilateral framework agreement , which they signed at the same time , for economic co-operation between the two countries . |
| 7 | Both came to lead theoretically revolutionary parties , which they staffed at the higher levels with relatives or friends from their home region . |
| 8 | Richard Roberts seized the opportunity to contract with landowners for the purchase of their wood and furze crop , which he sold at a handsome profit to the tinners . |
| 9 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That 's what we said at the general election . |
| 15 | What he said at the Tory Party Conference last year was that he was going to set the agenda ; the environmental agenda for the nineties . |
| 16 | In fact , that is just what it did at the last election . |