Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had twenty-four kronor of Swedish money , which I thought a handsome sum , but it proved sufficient to buy only one hopelessly modest open sandwich , like the bottom half of a hamburger bun with a menopausal piece of lettuce and eight marble-sized meatballs on top . |
| 2 | Another gift that was well received was a book of poetry for which I made a pressed flower bookmark . |
| 3 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 4 | I was lending a hand in the store of one of my compatriots ; for which I received a miserly stipend and a corner of a room in the warehouse already occupied by two young Chinese . |
| 5 | He took all my clothes , my underpants , my toothbrush and razor , in return for which I received a clean set of fatigues , underwear and a wash kit . |
| 6 | I refrained from making any statement until I had the erm minutes which I received the er , agenda which I received the next day which contradict the abandonment , but if the idea was to sort of give this troublesome member from Bungay a heart attack , er it failed , cos I 'm still here and ticking , now I would like to go through once again the , the point regarding Bungay and I hope the committee will take it on board with . |
| 7 | If the invitation to the Phoenix Club came to nothing , as it did , an invitation from the English Club , in which I enjoyed no official status , though I was a member , bore fruit . |
| 8 | The state of the sterling exchanges , the progress of the negotiations for financial aid , the estimates of the likely flow of oil-these were all matters on which I knew the Prime Minister would want the latest information . |
| 9 | I have just completed a randomised study of 24 patients receiving oral hypoglycaemic agents , in which I compared the glycaemic control ( as indicated by monthly assay of fructosamine ) of a group allocated to self monitoring of blood glucose and a similar group who tested their urine . |
| 10 | I HAD EVEN WRITTEN : ONE , THE TRAVELLING COMPANION , WHICH WAS RETURNED BY AN EDITOR ON THE PLEA THAT IT WAS A WORK : OF GENIUS AND INDECENT , AND WHICH I BURNED THE OTHER DAY ON THE GROUND THAT IT WAS NOT A WORK OF GENIUS , AND THAT JEKYLL HAD SUPPLANTED IT . |
| 11 | Throughout the following days of my work experience the owner and I had some stimulating conversations , from which I learnt a vast amount of information about music , his job and the popular music industry . |
| 12 | In an autobiographical account written a couple of years later , he described himself in having been " absolutely alone , of the most painful experiences and disappointments " ; and of his first response to " Schpenhauer 's masterpiece " he wrote that " in this book , in which every line cried out renunciation , denial and resignation , I saw a mirror in which I espied the whole world , life and my mind depicted in frightful grandeur " . |
| 13 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 14 | ‘ It was only much later , when it was too late to change anything , that I glimpsed the possibility that this may have been one small way in which I had a slight advantage over Gittel . |
| 15 | ‘ An eternity of time passed during which I had a blazing row with a nosy seagull which kept hovering over me . |
| 16 | Er then I went on to Buffalo and Niagara falls and crossed over to Canada which I had a few friends there . |
| 17 | He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters . |
| 18 | His adventures concluded he retires to Dulwich saying that he will never regret those two years , with their ‘ scenes of which I had no previous conception ’ leading to ‘ the enlargement of my mind ’ , PP passim . |
| 19 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 20 | I wish to add a personal word on a subject related to recent events , in which I played a personal role . |
| 21 | Which I found a little bit surprising . |
| 22 | In the slide in which I showed the overall results it appears that about half the patients , the erm marker tumour had been eradicated and in quite a lot of patients there were tumours present . |
| 23 | I paid 100 pesos for them to tidy her up and put her in a 900 peso coffin on which I paid a 200 peso deposit . |
| 24 | It was dick-work , routing out pests , for which I paid a fair price . |
| 25 | Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat . |
| 26 | Apart from the considerations which I mentioned a few moments ago , it would indeed . |
| 27 | I have received with great satisfaction the loyal and dutiful expression of your thanks for the Speech with which I opened the present Session of Parliament . |
| 28 | The lady I hoped to marry was Miss Marjorie Alice Barrett , who was a teacher in the National school of St Luke 's , Maidenhead , which I had attended when the family moved up from Somerset , and from which I gained a free place to the local county school . |
| 29 | Her most ingenious moment on Whose Line Is It Anyway ? was one the public never saw : ‘ We once did the nativity play in which I portrayed a paranoid shepherd convinced I was n't following a star , it was following me . ’ |
| 30 | ’ … in the meantime I would just like to explain the untimely interruption which you heard a few minutes ago . |