Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Housman has given us is a poem quite poignantly suggestive of that sense of private and personal loss that runs through so many of his lyrics ; a poem which refers us to the places and voices of The Other Shropshire , where the Graces go , and lads lie untimely in the earth . |
| 2 | I checked my hexagram against the index , which led me to the pages headed Ta Kuo : Preponderance of the Great . |
| 3 | Although this is an isolated example it is typical of the problems I encountered and which led me to the conclusion that the product simply is n't ready for release into the market in its current form . |
| 4 | Skirting the marshy end , they slowly climbed the gentle slope on the other side to join the carriage drive which led them to the stable . |
| 5 | In the 17 hours they were missing after losing their way , they trudged the forest to keep up their body heat until they eventually reached a path with white arrows which led them to the edge of the forest . |
| 6 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 7 | It was only after the demise of the ruling reptiles that the class had the opportunity to capitalize on the evolutionary advantages which propelled them to the dominance they have enjoyed ever since . |
| 8 | Alternatively , a person may place himself in a dangerous position which exposes him to the risk of involvement in the accident in which he is harmed . |
| 9 | A longer length of rope was circled around her shoulders and under the table , then over her gorgeous breasts and downwards until her rib cage was completely covered in coiled rope , which fastened her to the hard wooden table . |
| 10 | After three days hard riding , Corbett and his party reached Edinburgh in the middle of a sudden summer thunderstorm which drenched them to the skin . |
| 11 | Although a number of visitors had spontaneously mentioned the quality of the labels as one of the factors which attracted them to the exhibitions , the questionnaire also contained a specific question on the adequacy of the labels accompanying exhibits . |
| 12 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 13 | At first our after-dinner conversation was on general matters but when Lady Francesca withdrew , throwing Benjamin a smile which cut me to the heart , Clinton soon brought matters to order . |
| 14 | It had a lethal edge now which cut her to the bone . |
| 15 | Many of the pre-independence laws enabling action to be taken against privately owned media have been enforced by the new African governments , despite the fact that most new leaders issued statements which committed them to the ideals of free mass media and free expression of opinion . |
| 16 | Alternatively , it may be a prerequisite for the evolutionary development of intelligence — which leads us to the premonition that , in a few billion years time , there may be intelligent lugworms stalking the Earth . |
| 17 | Nevertheless there was a central thread running through the JCPT report which linked it to the feasibility study of merger which the CHC had commissioned . |
| 18 | Leaving aside the Prologue and the short Un-accompanied duet for Peter and Ellen which links it to the first act proper , each of the three acts is prefaced by an orchestral " interlude " , and there are three more of these interludes separating the scenes within the acts . |
| 19 | but I do n't think it 's really worth worrying too much about whether he 's fascist or communist because erm the only reason really there 's only link between him and Russia and the play is A is the opposite of America , in other words George and B because his name Khrushchev which links it to the leader of the er |
| 20 | It is this perspective which links us to the work of Goffman , Harre and Giddens . |
| 21 | The Holy Alliance which ties them to the USSR and to one another is the principle of Party infallibility , not the fact , and the certainty that the principle will be upheld — if necessary , by Soviet tanks . |
| 22 | ‘ She called an ambulance , which rushed me to the hospital immediately . ’ |
| 23 | For many black people , this is the only form of protest open to them in a society which is racist and discriminatory and which consigns them to the lowest positions in the class structure . |
| 24 | Nevertheless the political and diplomatic links which bound her to the rest of the continent were slowly multiplying and becoming stronger . |
| 25 | Donny O'Brien , the ancient typesetter inherited from the original Advent , swore each day that it was only by the grace of God that the paper ever got launched in the taxi which delivered it to the newspaper boys . |
| 26 | She and her husband were met at the station by a small open carriage which took them to the palace . |
| 27 | The first of two holidays they spent together was on a cruise ship , the SS Romantica which took them to the Greek Islands . |
| 28 | Two seasons ago , they beat Sparta Prague 2-0 in Czechoslovakia , then drew 0-0 in Napoli on a European Cup run which took them to the semi-finals . |
| 29 | Pearce pauses for reflection when asked to define the qualities which took him to the top with such apparent ease . |
| 30 | Then he received an offer to appear in Return from the River Kwai , which took him to the steaming jungles of the Philippines . |