Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw several brand new technical institutes , complete with Japanese-equipped language laboratories , which no-one knew how to use , and libraries stacked with scientific books . |
| 2 | You may think you are a good enough driver to go over the speed limit , but you may also realise that a world in which everyone drove very fast might be a little on the dangerous side . |
| 3 | The ham , which everyone ate avidly , and which Sally-Anne forced down , was off and the butter was so rancid that she almost choked over it . |
| 4 | Mr Vernon added that the fund raisers highest recompense would perhaps come when they heard the citations read for the gallantry medals to be awarded that afternoon , there being no better proof of the importance to the Institution for which everyone worked so willingly . |
| 5 | On the stable block , in which nothing had ever been stabled in Adam 's memory , was a little tower with a running fox weathervane on it and below the small pitched roof a blue clock with hands of gold . |
| 6 | Then I realized I was kneeling on a tarpaulin which someone had carefully placed over what could have been a small metal gate — or — the detached ‘ fun bumper ’ cow-catcher device from a small four-wheel-drive vehicle , say , a Shogun . |
| 7 | A remark which someone had once made to me about a man who had gone mad in the camp came clearly out of the darkness : |
| 8 | It was a shabby army-surplus shoulder-bag which someone had painstakingly embroidered with purple stars . |
| 9 | Then the last number , which someone said earlier , is the number of the layer in the ground . |
| 10 | If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines : |
| 11 | Aristotle said something very interesting in that extract from the Politics which I quoted earlier ; he said that women have a deliberative faculty but that it lacks full authority . |
| 12 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 13 | I conclude that which I took so much pains about will never come to thy hands . |
| 14 | So erm Which I thought well where 's that all about the cake , other day , that three pound one , and then two of us went |
| 15 | and I said well your be bored , no I wo n't , and about half past eight , which I thought well we should be finishing by now , he said well are n't we going ? |
| 16 | there 's two files at the end which I thought maybe ought to be at the beginning . |
| 17 | Part of it 's erm which I thought actually , I should n't really three of them each , you know he was getting silly |
| 18 | I was really rather taken with two or three of these , and seriously tempted by Hotwire , which I thought close to being fully achieved . |
| 19 | The church and state broadcasts to which he referred in his next letter were noteworthy as containing one of his own , of which I thought highly . |
| 20 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 21 | It gave me an unwelcome feeling and a ‘ you 're not wanted here , get out ’ complex , from which I became utterly pessimistic and a trifle hostile . |
| 22 | I had the good fortune to work with a brilliant head of department , and paid £10 for a 1927 Austin 7 in which I drove uncertainly every day from Wimbledon . |
| 23 | Thank you for your catalogue of outdoor clothing , which I received recently . |
| 24 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |
| 25 | All this raises the whole issue of the relationship between interpretation and conceptual evaluation which I touched on in Chapter 2 . |
| 26 | This is a conference which keeps very much in mind the symbolic advice offered in that pamphlet , to which I alluded just now , the one which tells you how to lay out election leaflets . |
| 27 | So much for the son 's manic triumph over the phallic mother symbolized by the arrogant domination and tree-felling exploits of Gilgamesh or the Amazon-slaying of the Greek heroes ; but what of the homosexual element in the situation to which I alluded earlier ? |
| 28 | I 'm grateful to Mr for raising this very fundamental question which I wished simply to comment on about the strategic aspects , I mean in Chichester we 've now had , as you all know , fire and flood and we have the pestilence with us ! |
| 29 | We did a fortnight 's production which I enjoyed immensely . |
| 30 | McFarlane talked of a ‘ Rabelasian cast to messages ’ and of ‘ the creation of romantic kinds of activities ’ ; he had four or five years ' experience , he noted wearily , ‘ of reading things which I knew not to be compatible with the realities of things . ’ |