Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also goes with the people he moves among , the ‘ circles ’ and ‘ sets ’ of The Possessed , many of whom are travellers too , and with the ‘ quintet ’ which he does n't belong to but is entangled with , which he tries to kick himself clear of , and which dumps him in that pond and leaves his cap behind . |
| 2 | You are good at expressing yourself , which stands you in good stead if you want to ask someone to do you a favour . |
| 3 | Anything which involved her in unnecessary enmeshment with Vitor d'Arcos would be sturdily fended off . |
| 4 | I know there are terrible things out there , but that is n't an excuse for giving up on that which sustains us in this life . |
| 5 | Dr Clark has written of the eigh-teenth-century Englishman : The agency of the State which confronted him in everyday life was not Parliament , reaching out as a machinery of representative democracy … but the Church , quartering the land not into a few hundred constituencies but into ten thousand parishes , impinging on the daily concerns of the great majority , supporting its black-coated intelligentsia , bidding for a monopoly of education , piety and political acceptability . |
| 6 | The Leeds average including the 39,106 that attended the QPR game is now 34,104 which keeps us in 4th place . |
| 7 | Gunn continues , describing the feelings which thrilled him in that time now past . |
| 8 | His tally now stands at 11 , which puts him in third place behind Robert Alner ( 16 ) and Philip Scholfield ( 12 ) in the Daily Telegraph Men 's Championship . |
| 9 | Second , the effect of the laws of rhythm in poetry is to set up a tension between two different principles of word combination : syntax , which determines it in ordinary language , and rhythm , which constitutes a second determining principle in poetry . |
| 10 | Mark Roe was altogether more scathing about the problem after a first round of 85 which left him in last place in the field . |
| 11 | Lanfranc , who had a practical mind , had foreseen this need when he was still prior of Bec , and had put together a collection of Canon Law , which stood him in good stead as archbishop . |
| 12 | She is the first to admit that she was bitten by the Puppy Love bug from quite an early age — which stood her in good stead when it came to dealing with the opposite sex in later years . |
| 13 | Burns 's poetry and songs have played an important part in my life from the earliest years , not only because of their simple beauty , but also because of their directness , honesty , and wry , lop-sided , humour ; the appreciation of which stood me in good stead the last time I was in Mauchline . |
| 14 | As we thawed out so our curling improved , which stood us in good stead when the tour progressed into the curling hotbed regions of Edmonton , Weyburn , Saskatoon and Calgary . |
| 15 | Any minority group is likely to include a substantial number of people who feel the need of … help and reassurance , … and many members of ethnic minorities suffer an additional persistent burden of racial discrimination which may well cause them to wonder what hope they could ever have of a fair hearing from a representative of the culture which treats them in this way … |
| 16 | This is what enables us in historical study to bridge the gulf between the present and the past , to enter into the experience and awareness which are opened up for us in the thoughts , beliefs , practices and social customs and institutions of other times and other cultures . |
| 17 | None the less , his fall from favour and loss of revenue farms and offices under the restored Commonwealth of 1659 may have been what stood him in best stead in the following year , rather than secret payments to the Royalist cause before May 1660 , for which there is no evidence beyond inference . |