Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , to the extent that our assumptions for thinking about them remain within the framework which derives from Weberian thought , we may well not recognize them for what they may be . |
| 2 | The mercenary ones simply put up with them and pretend that they love them for what they can get out of them . |
| 3 | There were lessons all around me about what I should be doing , where I should be going , but I chose to ignore them . |
| 4 | You joked me about what she should of in the day ? |
| 5 | Yet we are also familiar within ourselves with what we may call our rational streak . |
| 6 | There something terrible has happened to them of which they will not speak : ‘ A darkness lies behind us … and we have turned our backs on it ’ ( p. 141 ) . |
| 7 | There was nothing about him he could understand , nothing of which he could be sure . |
| 8 | ‘ Nothing of which you would approve , Doctor Horrocks , ’ she teased , and saw immediately that the Rector might misunderstand . |
| 9 | Rachel looked up sharply but his expression was inscrutable , giving away nothing of what he might be feeling . |
| 10 | To be greeted by complete strangers with instant derision was a sobering experience , and it vividly reminded me of what it must have been like for those first black people , in the eighteenth century , walking the streets of England freely . |
| 11 | I had a conversation the other day with Con that reminded me of what I used to be , before I got corrupted by this place . |
| 12 | And all the time my cut thumb reminded me of what I must forget to stay sane ; all the time sick with worry about what 's happening to me so I have to keep ordering myself : Think about the invalid . |
| 13 | He has reminded me of what I should have said in my supplementary answer to the hon. Member for Pontypridd ( Dr. Howells ) . |
| 14 | The assumption is based on religious writings , which in their turn are probably based on the primitive beliefs which early man formulated in pursuance of that almost uncontrollable urge to find something beyond himself to which he could ascribe the origins of the many mysterious things around him . |
| 15 | Nothing like what he would call ‘ photography ’ . |
| 16 | She gave him what was left of the already denuded packet : only two hundred pounds , it was true , and nothing like what it should be . |
| 17 | Unless , like Chris Patten , she needed you for what she could n't do herself ( write a decent speech ) , any wet , however bright , was kippered on the back benches . |
| 18 | Thank you for what you may be able to do . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't blame you for what you must be thinking . ’ |
| 20 | This road takes you through what I would say was the most savage landscape you are likely to see in the Pyrenees without actually setting off into the mountains on foot , a valley which has rocks where other valleys have trees . |
| 21 | We had visiting lecturers delivering a variety of information , none of which I can recall . |
| 22 | And the only basis upon which you can l lead a party of that sort , is to find a pivot th where you around which you can coalesce . |
| 23 | It seemed Noah wanted the magistrate to find nothing with which he could possibly take issue . |
| 24 | Yet when he seeks refuge in history , other men 's deeds and words , Gerontion finds nothing with which he can connect , only vacancy , vanity , and inane deception : the emptiness of the uninspiring , fragment-bearing wind that blows through much of Eliot 's poetry . |
| 25 | There was nothing with which she could find fault , and eventually she turned to Mr Miller and said , ‘ You 've got a wonderful collection here and I 'm full of admiration at the way in which you look after them . ’ |
| 26 | It was everything for which he could have asked . |
| 27 | This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company . |
| 28 | There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves . |
| 29 | A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul . |
| 30 | I have what to you may seem a small problem but one for which I can find no reason . |