Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say the distance between two species is the number of characteristics which they do n't have in common . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've also got an old ‘ 57 brown sunburst which I do n't take out on the road , as last time it got knocked over twice , and I do n't want it to get battered any more . |
| 3 | When the line-up was finalised with Charman in the spring of 1985 , they already had a set of six songs which they rehearsed repeatedly . |
| 4 | He 's twelve , and he 's got a horse which he rides sometimes . ’ |
| 5 | It was also a revelation to see the wildlife — birds and animals which I had only seen in Zoos were free for me to enjoy . |
| 6 | Increasingly underwriters took blocks of stock which they moved on to clients . |
| 7 | A difference of one thousand one hundred in the base dwellings stock which I 've not discussed and do n't propose to go into . |
| 8 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 9 | The letters gave him the chance of ‘ discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar and imitated in fairly cold blood . ’ |
| 10 | As appears from the chronology which I have already recited the purpose of the December charge being executed in favour of the mortgagees was simply to replace the defective charge that had been given in September . |
| 11 | Zen sat down on the large sofa which occupied most of one wall , thinking about that last card which he 'd fondly thought he had up his sleeve . |
| 12 | Moreover , Truman was ready to act decisively , following the advice of the card which he displayed prominently on his desk : " The buck stops here " . |
| 13 | Can you tell Mummy which one to put on ? |
| 14 | There was some shrapnel in one of his legs which they had never been able to get out . |
| 15 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |
| 16 | The criticism of the argument from analogy which I gave above is due to Wittgenstein . |
| 17 | Opponents of the Government have criticised the policy because it makes unions responsible for disruption which they have not organised and in some cases may oppose . |
| 18 | When she had aimed the bottle at Gazzer 's head , years of pent-up hurt and frustration had spilled over into violence : violence which she had previously directed against herself or had lived through only in her mind . |
| 19 | There was not a poet 's emotion which we did not heartily believe ourselves to share , evoked by the poem but not imitated from it . |
| 20 | Struggling with a painful emotion which she preferred not to analyse , but which felt uncomfortably like jealousy , Luce watched his tall figure disappear into the café . |
| 21 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 22 | On his left was a small , plump girl with round brown eyes which she blinked rapidly , as if smoke from the fire made them smart . |
| 23 | She mentioned a concoction which I had never encountered before . |
| 24 | Pausanias goes on to talk of stories of Theseus 's end ; irrelevantly , it seems , but it has often been thought that the subject must have been suggested by a fourth mural which he does not specify . |
| 25 | On the one occasion when I made a direct appeal to her , in connection with the battle against the closed shop for journalists which I describe later , her response was gratifyingly supportive and it was no fault of hers that she was unable to persuade Lord Hailsham to a course of action that might well have altered journalistic history . |
| 26 | There he flung himself into the local setting with characteristic abandon and commitment , participating in the daily round of village life with an eagerness and zest which he attributed partly to his Polish temperament ; there he established standards of meticulous and painstaking observation and inquiry which have been an inspiration to social anthropologists ever since . |
| 27 | There was a bank of salmon traps over at Clapton which he had n't visited for ages . |
| 28 | Thompson v. Robinson was distinguished also in Lazenby Garages v. Wright ( 1976 C.A. ) where Mr. Wright refused to accept a second-hand car which he had previously agreed to buy for £1,670 from a car dealer . |
| 29 | And he had a status-symbol mega car which he drove very slowly in the middle lane , his knuckles white with the strength of his grip on the steering wheel . |
| 30 | Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house . |