Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Shortly before Christmas and in the middle of correcting the proofs , he wrote to Rohde again : " The whole last part , which you do not know , will certainly astonish you ; I have been very daring , and I can cry out to myself in an altogether enormous sense , animam salvavi [ I have saved my soul ] ; for which reason I think of the book with great satisfaction and am not worried for it turns out to cause the greatest possible offence and in some quarters a " cry of outrage " greets its publication . |
2 | On the probable site of Wallace 's birthplace at Elderslie a modern memorial bears inscriptions in Gaelic ( Bas agus Buaiad — Death and Victory ) , English , and Latin , a translation of which reads I tell you the truth . |
3 | Only that you have a sharp tongue and an undisciplined sister , neither of which attributes I find endearing . |
4 | Tinbergen ( 1958 ) describes his delightful experiments on Philanthus , only one of which did I have space to explain . |
5 | I forwarded to him an estimate of the probable expence which I calculated at under £4000 with which sum I engaged to organize a party to keep the field for two years . |
6 | In what follows I wish to differentiate between those automated office systems which store unique documents for multiple access , and e-mail , in which multiple copies of documents and messages can be disseminated . |
7 | In what follows I hope to lay a finger on some of that discography 's oddities , and suggest ways in which it might be enriched and enlarged during the next 70 years . |
8 | In what follows I have shortened and transposed Griffith 's arguments . |
9 | In what follows I have used my interviews with parents as a counterpoint to a professional judgement . |
10 | In what follows I have tried to be explicit and specific about experiences which are by their nature woolly and indeterminate , resisting expression . |
11 | Then there is the matter of sex and lifestyle , on which subject I recall a curious interview between Stirling Moss and Hunt in which Hunt says something like , ‘ Luckily , I never made no-sex a rule before a race . |
12 | Before the hon. Gentleman gets stuck into the CAP , on which matter I hope that he will be as robust as my right hon. Friend in defending the interests of the British farmer , may I advise him that I was interested to note that he began his speech by talking about animal diseases and BSE ? |
13 | ‘ So to what do I owe this honour ? ’ she asked instead . |
14 | ‘ To what do I owe this pleasure ? ’ |
15 | ‘ To what do I owe the pleasure ? , |
16 | ‘ Yes , I am , and to what do I owe this pleasure ? ’ |
17 | ‘ To what do I owe this new attack on my character ? ’ |
18 | I hiss and spit : ‘ And to what do I owe this dubious honour ? ’ |
19 | ‘ Anyway , to what do I owe the pleasure of this visit ? ’ |
20 | ‘ And to what do I owe this pleasure ? ’ she enquired , telling herself that she must be light and bright . |
21 | If you 're over that side , you 've got ta come on the heath and come to what do I call them ? |
22 | There 's our subject I 'm gon na train them all on what did I hear someone say ? |
23 | and there 's about what did I put it ? |
24 | For what do I have , what can I miss , from here ? |
25 | Oh well , there goes another theory for what did I find in one of my favourite swims but a handful of zander in the four to six pound weight range . |
26 | At which point I turn and see that they have n't gone off at all , that I 'm sitting on the fourth step , the bottom step , right up against the barrier . |
27 | At which point I asked Mr Heseltine what he was up to . |
28 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
29 | They accumulated beneath the television until they threatened to be seen , at which point I smuggled them out of the house in my knapsack . |
30 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |