Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [vb base] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | ‘ So to what do I owe this honour ? ’ she asked instead . |
| 6 | ‘ To what do I owe this pleasure ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ To what do I owe the pleasure ? , |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , I am , and to what do I owe this pleasure ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ To what do I owe this new attack on my character ? ’ |
| 10 | I hiss and spit : ‘ And to what do I owe this dubious honour ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , to what do I owe the pleasure of this visit ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And to what do I owe this pleasure ? ’ she enquired , telling herself that she must be light and bright . |
| 13 | If you 're over that side , you 've got ta come on the heath and come to what do I call them ? |
| 14 | For what do I have , what can I miss , from here ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | At which point I asked Mr Heseltine what he was up to . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They accumulated beneath the television until they threatened to be seen , at which point I smuggled them out of the house in my knapsack . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Your welcome letter found me at Launceston at which place I remained two days with Mr. Kerr , Captn Friend etc . |