Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and I think that it is a very useful exercise to discover which things you know fall below that break even point and which things are therefore if you like internally subsidized or which we do for one reason or another . |
| 2 | ‘ You deserve it , but I was afraid they were n't the sort of people to make wills and the house would go to the Crown or whatever they do in these cases . ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes they leave their fingerprints there so they get what 's known as the Scenes of Crime Officer or what they call like all po well like all forces |
| 4 | I do n't know if you would agree with that or what you think of that , and one might to combat that if you agree that is does exist ? |
| 5 | The truth was that the Conservative party under Baldwin had managed to recover a large area of that middle ground in politics which is the key to electoral success and which they lost in 1206 , after being in possession for nearly twenty years before that . |
| 6 | With the leave of the House , Mr. Deputy Speaker , I wish once again to refer to the St. Kentigern-Oatridge problem , which is repeated in all our constituencies in one form or another , and which I recommend to some diligent Peer in the other place . |
| 7 | At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food . |
| 8 | I have therefore to agree with both the councils , that the comments you have just made and which you make at some length in your proof on this point , amount in effect to a late objection . |
| 9 | The imprisonment was , in fact , to last for six years , a period which Louis-Napoleon later called his ‘ university years ’ , and which he put to good use by both studying and publishing . |
| 10 | This is why he calls the object of his study ‘ narrative discourse ’ , which he defines as ‘ the oral or written discourse which undertakes to tell of an event or a series of events ’ , and which he distinguishes from narrative as series of events ( story ) , and narrative as the act of narrating . |
| 11 | She attended an excellent direct-grant grammar school ( which has since gone independent , much to Robyn 's disgust ) where she was Head Girl and Captain of Games and which she left with four A grades at A-Level . |
| 12 | We are inclined to think they are pretty typical , given our less detailed work at other football grounds and what we know of other groups of schoolchildren . |
| 13 | The same principle obtains if a man permits his personal belief to derange dramatically the laws of probability and what we know of human nature . |
| 14 | But I do think that the district auditor is beginning to be presented as a bogie man erm , waved in the faces of people in rural areas , as a sort of threat that even if the council does n't want to close your school , it might , and I think that probably is n't a very proper use of the district auditor 's image , nor of his report , and I think perhaps some direct contact with him , er to show what progress we 're making , paragraph by paragraph , and what we think of that report from December ninety-one , probably needs to be made . |
| 15 | Thus , when we think of a person , the impression we give to him and the one we wanted to give to him and what we really think of him , and what we say to other people about him are all exactly the same . |
| 16 | Because there are some people that want to listen to what we say in our house , and what we say to each other . |
| 17 | They wore tights , and what they wore underneath that no one had told Coffin . |
| 18 | Only because of that , and what they said in that totally shocked me , because erm , I , he had n't given me any feedback about how I was doing . |
| 19 | Then we analyse how individuals collect data about each other and what they do with those data . |
| 20 | He has several businesses in the district — a bobbin mill , a gunpowder factory , a cotton mill , and more — and what they have in common is that the people — usually women and children — who are unfortunate enough to be employed in them are driven as cruelly as possible and paid as little as possible . |
| 21 | His eyes met hers , and what she saw in those burning blue depths sent a wave of pure sensation racing through her . |
| 22 | I then asked John whether in recent years America was producing good literature , and what he thought of popular authors such as James Michener . |
| 23 | And what he said to this woman resulted in the transformation of her life ! |
| 24 | Me dad told us all about you , and what you said about Big Norm , Sniffer , Uncle Billy , an' that back in t' seventies . |
| 25 | And what I mean by that is for example er a pan like that we can buy for a quid which happens to be a . |
| 26 | It 's it 's on the basis that any employer has a duty of care to employees and what I mean by that is that er an employer has a responsibility to not work employers er er employees under conditions that that are known to be unsafe . |
| 27 | Before I come to discuss the philosophical problems that are raised by this sort of account of self and autonomy , I want to look at what I have called its implicit politics ; and what I mean by this primarily is its possible consequences for the way in which women might think about their relationships to each other , and the way in which they might think about themselves . |
| 28 | I suppose you may say : ‘ Why should I be more green ’ ? and what I say to that is : ‘ I do n't know what the reason is for you but I do know that for me it 's about showing compassion for the planet we live on and trying to hand on as much beauty and good-will as we possibly can to future generations ; while improving our own quality of life . |
| 29 | To understand why damage to Broca 's area impairs speech we need to know both where it gets its input from and what it does to that input . |
| 30 | The ‘ authors of the ‘ neutralisation ’ idea ’ were accused of trying to decide the Afghan people 's fate for them ‘ without asking the government of that country what its position is and what it thinks on this score ’ . |