Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After supper the ladies sung Erse songs , to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera , delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand . ’ |
| 2 | My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern . |
| 3 | On point d ) of this paper , which I regard as a separate issue , I have already made the point at Research Management that Library staff are receiving many more non-Library enquiries now , referred from Exhibition Hall staff , from Shop staff , and from new Support staff on the switchboard . |
| 4 | So much for the jerk-off theories put forward by the police , in which I figure as an adulterous version of George Joseph Smith — not the brides in the bath but the wittol in the water . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The outcome of this process , which I indicated as a possible development in the first edition of this book , is the pre-eminence in the present-day labour movement of social democratic parties ; that is to say , of parties which are themselves coalitions of diverse groups and intellectual tendencies , rather than centralized , monolithic organizations held together by strict discipline and an authoritatively interpreted ideology . |
| 7 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 8 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 9 | All my possessions began to smell of smoke ; even my better clothes which I kept in a closed cupboard under the bunk . |
| 10 | She certainly lived up to her name , and was the inspiration for the poem " Revenue Cutter " which I wrote after a particular stormy passage in the North of Scotland . |
| 11 | There were also , in more recent years , the series — like " At Home " , in which I talked to a different subject each week in his or her domestic setting . |
| 12 | Bed after regular bed shows a dark , laminated lower portion which I identify as an algal mat type deposit that has been ripped up and incorporated , in a graded fashion , in " cleaner " , paler sediment from offshore . |
| 13 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 14 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |
| 15 | I had them to dinner at my principal residence , having prepared a tagine of lamb with apricots , which I teased with a husky Australian Shiraz from the Mudgee River . |
| 16 | In particular , it is necessary to pay close attention to the relationship of civil society ( within which I will include much of what I mean by a specific urban culture ) and state forms and processes , in a context of ‘ disorganized capitalism ’ . |
| 17 | Now what I mean by an easy question something like |
| 18 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |
| 19 | Enough of what I regard as a premeditated incident at Lord 's . ’ |
| 20 | The next fallacy that causes some confusion in the discussion is the persistence of what I regard as a narrow outdated approach to the notion of sovereignty . |
| 21 | It meant that I could still do what I regard as a worthwhile job . |
| 22 | That at least was the gist of what I gathered from a long complex explanation . |
| 23 | I had been what I saw as a stop-gap anchor-man for Report , the teatime news programme , for less than eighteen months . |
| 24 | right , right what I see as an interesting possibility the papers that we got in this week from Telford College that came to me |
| 25 | Or do I merely interpret what I see in a different way ? ’ |
| 26 | To my mind , what I do as a medical sociologist is just as scientific . |
| 27 | As Chairman of the National Curriculum English Working Group I was given the responsibility of deciding on programmes of study for all children from 5 to 16 , of putting right what I regarded as a major omission in the Kingman Report . |
| 28 | I therefore recommended to him what I regarded as a sensible viewpoint . |