Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The movies are true , ’ screamed my eyes from the back of the yellow can which I took from the airport . |
| 2 | Well I er do n't agree that there has been er understaffing and in the statement which I made to the House today I was able to point out what a very big increase in er the total complement of the prison officers has taken place during recent years , but it 's up to Lord Justice Woolf to look in to whatever evidence is put before him , it 's for him to look at the terms of reference and he will no doubt decide what is relevant and what is not . |
| 3 | And according to the erm agreement which I made with the franchisee in June eighty nine erm his rent is also due for review er this August . |
| 4 | However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art . |
| 5 | If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines : |
| 6 | My honourable friend from the front benches made the point about the gaps in er these regulations , they do n't cover Lloyds , they do n't cover pension schemes , pension funds they do n't cover banks which are domiciled er in the er in in the United States but er we also have the point which I made in the interjection to the minister that unless there 's a duty to detect fraud er er as well as report it , it 's really doubtful if the auditors can perform er the function . |
| 7 | We began filming with Richard Phillips on the sidelines ( by which I mean on the floor , through the windows , in the lounge and peering at the man peering through the lens ) , Nigel ( Grubby ) Foster and Michael Hall representing J Walter Thompson , the Agency . |
| 8 | The second matter which I mention at the outset is this . |
| 9 | I was crying outright now , and he made a move towards me which I sensed in the darkness , but I lashed out with my hand and knocked his arm down , and cried , " Leave me alone , that 's what you want to do ! " |
| 10 | AS a regular reader of your paper which I regard as the voice for the North-East , I have become increasingly frustrated at your sports section . |
| 11 | They swarmed round the town at night and came close to the tent in which I slept in the consulate compound . |
| 12 | The person concerned is , generally speaking , the mother , but , given the role reversal which I experienced during the school holidays , it seems reasonable to point to my father 's behaviour as a possible contributory factor to my becoming anorexic . |
| 13 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 14 | I was fourteen at the time , so was she ; she sent me a signed photograph which I keep in the breast pocket of my school blazer until both photograph and blazer fell apart . |
| 15 | Last year I was given a beautiful blue pot hydrangea which I planted in the garden when it finished flowering . |
| 16 | However , I shall return to the four themes which I identified at the beginning , and which have been threaded through the discussion . |
| 17 | Now those honest grey eyes , which I associated with the moon , were furtive and unkind . |
| 18 | Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy . |
| 19 | All my tools which I had underneath the kitchen sink , my washing powder : all gone . |
| 20 | ‘ A ludicrous , yet just image presented itself to my mind , which I expressed to the company . |
| 21 | The approach which I take to the subject is one concerned almost exclusively with the Anglo-American tradition , though Hegel is allowed into the last chapter , at the end of which I give some references to sample writings in the continental tradition , especially critical theory . |
| 22 | I lean into the compost box to grab a double armful of grass cuttings which I take to the courgette beyond the shed and carefully place around the stem . |
| 23 | In a copy of Burma Today for March 1945 , which has somehow survived in my papers , I see an editorial which I wrote under the heading ‘ Britain 's Best Ambassador ’ , namely the BOR ( British Other Ranks ) , who had been fighting for over three years to liberate Burma . |
| 24 | In response to the article on Zahira 's experiences which I wrote in the Guardian I got , in addition to the usual sick and abusive letters from racists , a number of letters from English women who sympathised with Zahira . |
| 25 | The rain which I collect from the downpipe often has debris in it from the guttering . |
| 26 | So I I accept there are a number of items here which I discussed with the chairman and he agreed to . |
| 27 | The group suggested some amendments to a draft motion which I proposed from the chair ; the amended motion was then signed en bloc with only two colleagues declining . |
| 28 | Fishing into my green Marks & Spencer carrier bag I found some biscuits and an apple , some old sandwiches , which I threw into the water for the fish — and oh yes , there was still some dandelion wine left . |
| 29 | For guitars I just used the Jaguar and a Broadcaster-type thing made for , I think , Jerry Donahue , which I found at the studio . |
| 30 | The particular one hundred words in this case categories as follows : this is the order in which I worked through the set . |