Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is Labour 's insistence on putting the cart before the horse which fills me with gloom . |
| 2 | In my opinion in Ex parte Agegate Ltd. , the fact that the residence requirement was applicable to British citizens and nationals of other member states alike was the main element in the reasoning which led me to take the view , unlike the court , that that requirement was compatible with Community law : see para. 57 . |
| 3 | calmer than the blood which left me |
| 4 | ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’ |
| 5 | I remember , after one lesson , having a sensation of a collar being around my neck which prevented me from turning my head ( similar to the kind people have to wear after painful neck injuries ) . |
| 6 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 7 | I was re-assured however by an old sheep fence which guided me — incredible that anyone could put a fence on such a slope ! |
| 8 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 9 | After her decision to stop working with a model , she wrote : ‘ Through the long time of working on studies , I finally have attained a certain background in technique which allows me to express what I want without a model . ’ |
| 10 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 11 | One direction which interests me is the development of what one might call cognitive archaeology , if that is not too grandiose a term : using the material evidence from the past to allow us to begin to say something useful about the way peoples thought , the way they used communication systems , the way they used symbols . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been disappointed with our results , but I would like to stay on and honour my contract which keeps me in the post until December 1994 , ’ said the Dutchman . |
| 13 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 14 | He stated a little later , ‘ At the start it was patriotism not communism which moved me to believe in Lenin and in the Third International . ’ |
| 15 | It was either the carrot or the stick which helped me to complete the analysis and report on my results . |
| 16 | ‘ He put me on an iron tonic which bucked me a little . |
| 17 | ‘ It was a psychological tonic which helped me to cope with a silent Parliament . |
| 18 | But it is a part which gives me so much pain that sometimes I ca n't bear it — ca n't bear it at all . ’ |
| 19 | There was a printed card fixed above the doorbell which told me I had about ten minutes before visiting times were up . |
| 20 | It is a dead debate , and its tombstone was the BFI Reader Theories of Authorship which offered an inbuilt teleology , a narrative trajectory which led me , as a postgraduate student , away from the embarrassments of romantic individualism to the chastening rigours of poststructuralist thought . |
| 21 | He gave me a look which made me wonder whether Mavis had n't , after all , spilled the beans . |
| 22 | He gave me a look which made me wonder if the leather riding gear was knife-proof , then he sprang at the internal phone and pressed two buttons . |
| 23 | ‘ The joke is , ’ said Nicol , crying into his pint , ‘ it was the only thing in the pub which cost me nothing . |
| 24 | It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised . |
| 25 | We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path . |
| 26 | The papers to which he had referred , and which he kept in a tin box underneath his bed , contained an unexpected coda to this small adventure — an unfortunate little postscript which reminded me how Captain Scott must have felt when he reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 27 | At last there occurred , suddenly , a most strange event which I shall never forget ad which astonished me : the little girl flung her arms round my neck ad in a rush began kissing me frenziedly . |
| 28 | When an emotionally articulate speaker wants to convey to me , not the fact that he is sad , but in what way and to what degree , his language becomes rhythmic and metaphorical , pulls me to his viewpoint to visualize his situation becomes a poetry which infects me with his melancholy and a rhetoric stirring me to help him , and afterwards perhaps I find myself regretting having committed myself to an action in his interests rather than my own . |
| 29 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 30 | The restaurant is on a lease and I understand that when the lease ran out there was a law which entitled me to a new one . |