Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 Oh no quite probably matinee and then the early evening which I thought those people were coming out from look and erm , and this one , good grief fancy doing that be here half a day , you 'd think you 'd earn the damn money would n't you ?
2 On my first attempt of the Sound and Waves test I managed to score 20 percent , I then decided I had better read the tutorial before my second attempt in which I scored 60 percent .
3 Then I said I was here with the family and she announced she was having a party for the local English , ‘ a rather disgusting barbecue ’ which she knew young people liked , and she supposed we 'd better come along .
4 Human language is not just a tool by which we control other people and control the material world out there ; it is also a device which allows us to formulate metaphysical concepts , and to recognize , at a conscious level , the binary oppositions which are basic to the structure of ordered thought .
5 We have reviewed the quota , as we have reviewed the range of ways in which we help disabled people into work , and we have decided to keep the quota under review , but the right hon. Gentleman knows of the difficulties in enforcing it .
6 Well you 've just you 've just er allow you 've just said something that allows me er to bring in er the way in which we approach advertising sales er Robert because er all of us who 've been in tra traditional sales , and I 'm I 'm just er that was my background as well er in addition to recruitment , er we are not used to giving everything over the phone before we go to see the people .
7 Their hatred for each other was even greater than for the capitalist enemy , and they were constantly locked in internecine warfare in which they accused each other.of a battery of heinous crimes .
8 And as to dictatorships — in which he says two people in every 100 are interested in politics as opposed to three in a hundred in a democracy — you could argue that some dictatorships succeeded because they appealed to primitive instincts in people who were not interested in politics .
9 Lord Aldington agreed with Mr Rampton that the date on which he left V Corps area was important .
10 The accused is dishonest if he acts in a way which he knows ordinary people would regard as dishonest .
11 A Mr J. Franklin from Beachampton , who worked in the Smithy , used to trap and bring rabbits to work every Monday morning when they were in season , for which he charged 2s 6d ( 12. ½p ) each .
12 And without any lead-up she said , ‘ From what I gather some people take the mickey out of her down there because of her name , punning it like , and she being a bit fat .
13 This relative freedom from negative reaction is what I imagine most people mean when they say they are happy in their work .
14 She was absolutely convinced that what she liked other people wanted too ; a canny instinct which she used always as her guiding principle and from which no one could shake her .
15 What you doin' frightening folk like that ?
16 Egg and bacon on each plate but one and on this one a dried up , curled-up-with-age piece of smoked fillet , or what we called finney haddock .
17 But , in this case , what they teach young people is life as a pattern of lies .
18 What they call unripe fruit … .
19 It was a small personal obligation , and to date it had n't particularly fretted what he supposed other people called conscience .
20 Among the nine member countries in 1985 the British pension came second to last in what it enabled older people to buy in their own countries .
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