Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [vb past] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lost a sodden pair of boots and socks , and William 's day bag , which I 'd borrowed for a rucksack . |
| 2 | I fingered Jo 's credit cards , which I 'd slipped into a trouser pocket . |
| 3 | Recently I sold a number of ‘ profit share ’ shares and found myself left with six shares which I had received as a dividend . |
| 4 | I 've got that broken arm , which I had to put in a sling every time . |
| 5 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
| 6 | ‘ For me , I was in the place which I had seen on a globe as a girl — where the pin went through it ! |
| 7 | I felt the strangeness then , and the wonder , not unmixed with revivals of half-forgotten fears , but transfigured and enhanced by a mature understanding , which I had lacked as a child in Africa , of what the whole performance was for . |
| 8 | I knew that informed public opinion might be shifting , but also that the school to which I hoped to return as head would not yet be very different from the one which I had left as a history teacher . |
| 9 | He handed me the seventeenth-century pamphlet , which I had left on a table on the landing . |
| 10 | After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain . |
| 11 | So , I did what I learnt to do as a working-class woman , which was to justify why I did my work by saying , well of course it is a metaphor for all kinds of struggle , and of course it is , but actually the original reason was n't that at all . |
| 12 | Apart from that , I had said more or less what I wanted to say in a way that I thought Belinda could not fail to admire . |
| 13 | ‘ I never knew what I wanted to do for a living . |