Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter ( in which I took a great personal interest ) required the installation of a special engine to pump up the Secondary Modern sewage into a tank , at the Grammar School level , from which it could then flow gently eastwards towards the Oxford Road . |
| 2 | The problem there was the children climbing the fence and with just having spent five hundred and eighty pounds putting a fence up , spent another fifty four pounds although it 's not in the budget , I accept that , er was er a necessary expenditure which I took a decision on straight away because I did n't want to see our five hundred pound fence being knocked down within a week of being put up . |
| 3 | ‘ At this present moment they are engaged in a fully comprehensive training course using the systems run by the local college , on which I took the liberty of enrolling them . |
| 4 | Ron then spoke about debt management and Bank deposits , after which I took the platform to talk about investment and pensions . |
| 5 | I had twenty-four kronor of Swedish money , which I thought a handsome sum , but it proved sufficient to buy only one hopelessly modest open sandwich , like the bottom half of a hamburger bun with a menopausal piece of lettuce and eight marble-sized meatballs on top . |
| 6 | Our next port of call was Piraeus , which I thought a dirty , uninteresting place . |
| 7 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 8 | Another gift that was well received was a book of poetry for which I made a pressed flower bookmark . |
| 9 | Which I made a note of . |
| 10 | ‘ Really , it was a game in which I made the rules : always being the one to decide whether or not we 'd make love when we met . |
| 11 | A few weeks ago I wrote to inform your Mother and Aunts of the Death of Mr. Green 's eldest unmarried Daughter , who was the main prop of the Family , and of a plan which had been set on foot for their relief by raising a Subscription , to which I received a most kind and satisfactory reply . |
| 12 | He took all my clothes , my underpants , my toothbrush and razor , in return for which I received a clean set of fatigues , underwear and a wash kit . |
| 13 | I was lending a hand in the store of one of my compatriots ; for which I received a miserly stipend and a corner of a room in the warehouse already occupied by two young Chinese . |
| 14 | I refrained from making any statement until I had the erm minutes which I received the er , agenda which I received the next day which contradict the abandonment , but if the idea was to sort of give this troublesome member from Bungay a heart attack , er it failed , cos I 'm still here and ticking , now I would like to go through once again the , the point regarding Bungay and I hope the committee will take it on board with . |
| 15 | I refrained from making any statement until I had the erm minutes which I received the er , agenda which I received the next day which contradict the abandonment , but if the idea was to sort of give this troublesome member from Bungay a heart attack , er it failed , cos I 'm still here and ticking , now I would like to go through once again the , the point regarding Bungay and I hope the committee will take it on board with . |
| 16 | If the invitation to the Phoenix Club came to nothing , as it did , an invitation from the English Club , in which I enjoyed no official status , though I was a member , bore fruit . |
| 17 | They were both enjoyable erm I ca n't really say which I enjoyed the most er , I thought they were both very good and of course good value for the money because they do n't charge very much for the fares well I do n't think they do . |
| 18 | The state of the sterling exchanges , the progress of the negotiations for financial aid , the estimates of the likely flow of oil-these were all matters on which I knew the Prime Minister would want the latest information . |
| 19 | But to return to the question with which I began the discussion of LTP , is it really a model for long-term changes in the nervous system , or is it something more , a mechanism for memory itself ? |
| 20 | At the first meeting of the committee which I attended the secretary announced that it would be necessary for members to disclose their interests , meaning thereby that they should declare with what companies and organisations they were involved . |
| 21 | ‘ She develops this grandiose theory of herself as being important , and makes Truth Or Dare which I saw a couple of minutes of but had to stop watching because it was so unpleasant and embarrassing and awful . |
| 22 | I thought it was just a or something which I 'd a owed stodge |
| 23 | There were bookshelves along one wall , with titles ranging from John Keegan 's Six Armies in Normandy and Richard Holmes 's Firing Line , which I 'd read , to anonymous pulp volumes called A Social History of the Hand Grenade or similar , which I 'd no intention of reading . |
| 24 | I have just completed a randomised study of 24 patients receiving oral hypoglycaemic agents , in which I compared the glycaemic control ( as indicated by monthly assay of fructosamine ) of a group allocated to self monitoring of blood glucose and a similar group who tested their urine . |
| 25 | I HAD EVEN WRITTEN : ONE , THE TRAVELLING COMPANION , WHICH WAS RETURNED BY AN EDITOR ON THE PLEA THAT IT WAS A WORK : OF GENIUS AND INDECENT , AND WHICH I BURNED THE OTHER DAY ON THE GROUND THAT IT WAS NOT A WORK OF GENIUS , AND THAT JEKYLL HAD SUPPLANTED IT . |
| 26 | I had , however , the good fortune not only to kill the bird myself , but , in one instance , to find its nest , from which I shot a female . ’ |
| 27 | Another day we hired bikes and rode through the forests , seeing the Blue Lake and the Green Lake , and William and I went to Buried Village ( where we found a nice cafe with a superb carrot cake , for which I got the recipe ) . |
| 28 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 29 | ‘ From the age of sixteen onwards , I had one single ambition , from which I never wavered , in the prosecution of which I spent every ounce I could , on which I really and deliberately staked my whole contentment ; and I recognise myself as having unmistakeably failed in it . ’ |
| 30 | In one Oxfordshire school in which I spent a day , I saw a nine year old begin a piece of descriptive writing at ten o'clock in the morning . |