Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yeah , Alex this fucking stupid project which means I 've got ta stop after prac after rehearsal . |
| 32 | She 'd do anything for us — and we both know that , which means I suppose that we have a sort of shell of security which goes with us everywhere . ’ |
| 33 | I suffer from debilitating shyness , which means I socialise very rarely . |
| 34 | No , when it comes to resurrections , I believe in the defibrillator and that 's about it ; which means I have less trouble with Frankenstein than I do with say , Lazarus , to cite one of Pa 's favourite yarns . |
| 35 | Which means I have to be rational on her behalf . |
| 36 | The writing is idiosyncratic ( which means I have n't yet deciphered it ) but fascinating . |
| 37 | You know , so I , I mean , I talked about this before , this is a mailing that I want to do in October , which means for example , that I 've got to print the catalogue in July , which means I 've got to proof it in June , which means I have to actually design it in April and May . |
| 38 | Which means I have to claim my money back . |
| 39 | I sometimes do a bucket shot , which means I do n't get my gun out and I shoot my leg off . |
| 40 | Pulled between the conflicting impulses , I ought to resist the craving which dulls the awareness which moves me to abstain , because for me that is a causally necessary condition of obeying ‘ Face the fact that you might get cancer ’ . |
| 41 | I think life is easier for me than it would be for a lot of working women because of the university creche , which enables me to go to work and sort of see my daughter at lunch time , that sort of thing . |
| 42 | I use a Shakespeare 13ft match rod , which enables me to play big fish on light tackle without undue fear of breakage . |
| 43 | I think one of the things which the French have learnt to do is , indeed , to integrate specialists , whether they 're scientists , whether they 're economists , erm and their generalists , that 's to say the people who have basically a legal , economic , administrative background , to integrate them within the administrative hierarchy in a much better way than we have , erm and this is erm something which does I think make it easier sometimes to provide advice that really is erm clued up about the technical aspects of something . |
| 44 | It seems fairly certain that this subvention , which Artaxerxes I had confirmed in 459 B.C. ( Ezra 7.21–2 ) , had been continued by Alexander and the Ptolemies : it was later reconfirmed , though with a changed formula , by Augustus ( Phil . |
| 45 | It was a horrendous attack which leaves me stuck for words . |
| 46 | There is an old-fashioned quality to these performances which leaves me wishing for something just a little less well-upholstered , although I can imagine anyone coming to Bach for the first time with this recording could well come away with the impression that old LEAVES is quite simply the ‘ bizz ’ , and I for one would not wish to argue with that ! |
| 47 | And yet , wrote Harsnet , it is this which excites me , this which makes me want to go on . |
| 48 | There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages . |
| 49 | Kirishima is nothing like Dana , but he has that male charisma which makes me want to lie in his arms — I feel safer just gloating over his superb body on the television screen . |
| 50 | Perhaps it is this point of political reassessment ; perhaps it is because I am mid-way through my life — the time when the past stretches widespread enough to contemplate , and the future is no longer infinite — which makes me want to catch memories . |
| 51 | Or perhaps it is all that rain which makes me want more water . |
| 52 | The Mermaid is frequented by the local fishermen for breakfasts and lunches , which makes me think its fish must be the freshest . |
| 53 | I find that I 'm questioning my own authority , which makes me think even more . |
| 54 | ‘ There 's something about its jizz which makes me think it 's a … ’ is a very handy phrase when only a brief glimpse of the bird has been caught . |
| 55 | It was built before the war , and I have a Shanks loo , which makes me think that the British must have had a hand in building it . |
| 56 | They think my Yorkshire accent is amusing , and Nicola , my boss , tells friends that I 'm ‘ from the country ’ , which makes me feel as if I 'm from another planet . |
| 57 | And I think this has been proved you know that ask when people have changed their minds and said I do n't know , that this is what has happened in the last er ten to fifteen years erm and which makes me feel that once again I think that advances can only be evolutionary erm I think that erm , I do n't know if you , anybody saw Joseph Conrad 's erm spy story on the television ? |
| 58 | It always strikes me when you see meths drinkers and imagine those people as children — they were all beautiful then , and it is simply an inexplicable phenomenon which makes me sit here and that other person is out there on the street . |
| 59 | ‘ It is not very much , ’ concedes Anna Perry , ‘ which makes me wonder why so many of these porters had been with us for so long . |
| 60 | Again it 's Bass , Mid and Treble and each pot has a recommended start setting of 12 o'clock to allow for cut or boost , which makes me wonder why these controls are labelled 0 to 10 — would n't -5 to +5 have been more sensible ? |