Example sentences of "[subord] [det] [noun] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One design may be very much better than another design from which it is only slightly different . |
| 2 | How fortunate you are to have found yet another chance at happiness together , with a better understanding than most people of what you should do to make a successful marriage , and how much you will gain . |
| 3 | Would it even matter , if this rabble of which he had himself once been a part , managed to get their vote and fill the House of Commons with men who would pass Factory Acts galore , including that damnable Ten Hours Bill of Richard Oastler 's , so that no man would be able to control his own affairs ? |
| 4 | Because another way in which I had to throw good money after bad was that after he died once I started having things done in the house they kept on turning up things that he had done that were absolutely N B G |
| 5 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 6 | Though this notion of what I shall be calling ‘ discursive metaphor ’ may seem itself to be metaphoric , it is , as we shall see , a justified extension of the standard definition , as it accounts for the distinct use of figurality in Brooke-Rose 's fiction . |
| 7 | Parents or relatives often make donations to their old public school or college as some repayment for what it has done for them , or in the hope that it may give their child a better chance of entry ! |
| 8 | Mark my words , he feels as guilty as all hell for what he did , which explains the verbal abuse . |
| 9 | He constantly brings others into our lives who are able to bring out the best that we have , as well as those traits of which we are most ashamed ; the one for his glory and the other for correction . |