Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 2 | Further to our telephone conversation last week , I am writing to inform you of the changes of circumstances concerning the above policy , which I had completely forgotten to do , and for which I apologize . |
| 3 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
| 4 | A certain crepuscularity of spirit had sauntered in , courtesy of a misunderstanding which I had n't bothered to trouble the prancing Squire and his Milady with ; not fair , in their state of mind , I thought . |
| 5 | Indeed I piled up on my home bookshelf many more volumes than appear here and which I have regretfully had to omit . |
| 6 | I must admit however that there are texts I used frequently with girls which I have not chosen to read with a mixed class , feeling that they would not attract the attention of the boys . |
| 7 | Slight and in his mid-twenties , he moved with energetic nervousness , his sharp eyes darting in all directions , as if on constant guard against a knife in the back — a worrying habit which I have since come to associate with compulsive back-stabbers . |
| 8 | You reproach me for being stupidly repelled by a taste of which I have never dared to become fully aware . |
| 9 | Which I have inadvertently forgotten to bring with me . |
| 10 | She wrote to Jane at the start of her employment : ‘ There are two things I beg you to do : get your time each day in the fresh air and strictly limit the hours you spend on your work , which I have always had to do anyway with such a large family and it does make sense in the end . |
| 11 | One morning , to my intense embarrassment , you brought her to my poetry appreciation class — which you had never bothered to attend yourself . |
| 12 | If you choose this type of holiday a good starting point is to decide on a city that fascinates you and which you have always wanted to visit and book a package trip ( that is one in which travel , hotel , and meals are included , with some guided tours ) . |
| 13 | There had been a pattern , an only too discernible repetition in the events and relationships of his life into which she had ruggedly refused to fit . |
| 14 | Apart from the finer details of the carving , which she had n't stopped to note , all the doors looked alike . |
| 15 | It was a confession of weakness which she had n't expected to make , not to him and not at such a moment . |
| 16 | In Liddie 's case , however , it had brought her face to face with a disenchanted childhood which she had not wanted to recognize . |
| 17 | Carolyn found it suddenly possible to talk about the future , which she had not dared to do before . |
| 18 | ‘ I could start immediately , ’ Sally-Anne roared on , striking while the iron was hot , just as Papa always advised — one maxim which she had not disdained to learn from him . |
| 19 | Balancing the tray , to which Mrs Darrell had kindly added the plate containing those cream cakes which she had not managed to devour , she heard her say to Dr Neil , ‘ You really ought to go into society again , my dear . |
| 20 | Physics and physical science students had a strong sense of the hierarchy of different disciplines ; Debbie , for example , described business studies ( which she had originally hoped to study at university ) as a ‘ soft option ’ ; a first-year physics student at A described astro-physics ( a course also run by the department ) as ‘ watered-down physics ’ . |
| 21 | And they would always be a perfect reminder , she told herself as they finally struggled back on board , loaded with parcels , none of which she had actually intended to buy . |
| 22 | He put out a hand to take the doll from her , to admire her exquisite handiwork , and when , in the doing , her hand touched his , a shiver of something which she had never thought to feel again passed over her . |
| 23 | If the birth of her child was to take place in London as had been arranged , then presumably for some weeks beforehand she would have to remain in the Harley Street flat , kicking her heels or at least suffering the kicks inside her , which she had greatly come to resent . |
| 24 | That is obviously something which we 've just got to keep topping up but it was recognised by the fathers that will there was we needed to be helped to train to sell and so we needed that training er to get us get us going so to speak , there were no natural salesmen amongst departments . |
| 25 | This goes back in section two , yes , and when they give you your induction report , which we 've still got to put some results on , that goes back in section three . |
| 26 | ‘ is a matter of confidence between him ( the Home Secretary ) and the judiciary which we have not sought to breach because such consultation truly lies in my view within the realm of confidence , i.e. privilege . |
| 27 | With the exception of artificial machines , which we have already agreed to count as honorary living things , nonliving things do n't work in this sense . |
| 28 | Signs like these were enough to convince educated contemporaries that it was worth trying to maintain the pressure on the authorities which they had already begun to generate . |
| 29 | The Djibouti government , he said , had never asked the French to mediate with the FRUD ; they had merely been asked to honour the mutual defence agreement signed between the two countries in 1977 , which they had singularly failed to do in the face of the FRUD " invasion " . |
| 30 | The opposite problem is experienced by those who are lacking in confidence , who feel that they should not worry other people with their problems and who , if they finally make an appointment , tend to rush through it and come away without covering all the points with which they had really hoped to deal . |