Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] i [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er , when you know you go home and lying on the doormat on the Friday night is a great tome of paper that came second post which made me out to be the biggest idiot philanderer , thief , cheat and liar in the world |
| 2 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 3 | It was my desire to be active , to earn my way in life , which encouraged me into these new fields , that is it was a positive impulse which drove me on . |
| 4 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 5 | ‘ It was an old-fashioned impulse which drove me back to my own room before the house staff and my other guests awoke . |
| 6 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 7 | There was a split second of violent clattering as cannon shells hit the machine and then I was clear , and in a 270° turn which took me back across my flight path and into the safety of that wonderful cloud . |
| 8 | Another thing — Vic would n't let them bring in newspapers , which pissed me off . |
| 9 | There was a fantastic atmosphere of pulling together , an almost overwhelming strength which bowled me over . |
| 10 | Which put me off gambling for good , because whilst we won every day , it seemed , we 'd lost a lot of money at the end of the year . |
| 11 | Each time , like , I 've learned not to do this because that 's what got me back into it the last time . |
| 12 | The sound of the collision was what woke me up : a terrible grinding , smashing wrench . |
| 13 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 14 | Not so much the opposition — what shook me up was to see children being used in the front line by protestors . |
| 15 | No I had a Group Manager who actually introduced me to this , I erm , I work out with him , but , he brought a , actually what turned me on to this was the fact that erm , where he is , he 's thirty six now , and erm , he 's got no mortgages , he 's got a , he paid eleven thousand pounds for a , a Kawasaki Z Z eleven hundred R super bike , worth that is |
| 16 | In the middle of this quiet preview of my academic future , Ma does something — only a small thing , but it breaks an unwritten law of the household — and that 's what started me off … |
| 17 | That 's what pissed me off , when you lot got moved down there fucking ridiculous . |
| 18 | But what pissed me off was , right , |
| 19 | What pissed me off is , is he 's hanging about with James and that lot now right , but when you talk about James and that lot to him its , oh they 're a bunch of chiefs . |
| 20 | I think what put me off in th and certainly em embedded was some of the comments as around control of our lives . |
| 21 | knots , very few knots , just lovely yellow pine and er and they make all their furniture out of these pieces , so , he said that 's what set me off on making furniture he said |