Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the figure-drawing class , ( which seems to me the dreaded end , and the model has n't even got a beautiful figure ) has produced at least one lovely charcoal drawing . |
| 2 | In Lawrence 's Women in Love , completed in 1916 , Birkin contemplates the purchase of a ‘ clear , beautiful chair ’ which expresses for him the living thoughts of ‘ England , even Jane Austen 's England ’ , before these were destroyed by ‘ sordid and foul mechanicalness ’ . |
| 3 | I 'm sure your friend will put a good word in for you , ’ which brought from her the sharp retort : ‘ Yes , he will ! |
| 4 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 5 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 6 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 7 | She left a series of notes in my pigeonhole that started off plaintively : ‘ I 'm very confused by what happened between us the other night . |
| 8 | ‘ What happened between us the other day , after our picnic — ’ his deep voice was suddenly slow and compelling as he steered the boat slowly towards the busy quay at Kalkara ‘ — that seemed … special . |
| 9 | The defendants asserted their privilege against making possibly incriminating disclosure by what seems to me the unusual step of incorporating in a summons their application to set aside the paragraphs of Buckley J. 's order which appeared likely to upset that privilege and supporting that application by affidavits expressing their apprehensions in vague terms . |