Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ My GP prescribed an oral antibiotic which I took for five months , but it did n't do anything .
2 Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another .
3 I was able to realize this desire agreeably by means of a small scholarly society which I formed with two friends . "
4 This book is about Britain 's Defence policy in her post-imperial era , and is the sequel to my Withdrawal from Empire , published in 1986 , in which I looked through military eyes at the creation , development and eventual transformation of the Empire into the loosely-knit British Commonwealth .
5 and placed his resignation in my hands , which I accepted with great regret .
6 ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’
7 ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’
8 But I soon learnt how to bake little cakes made of corn , which I ate with warm milk .
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10 Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle .
11 The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence .
12 Some , like Bina Gardens , where he had spent pleasant evenings with Frank Morley and Geoffrey Faber in the 1930s at John Hayward 's flat , resulted in the Noctes Binanianae , a little private anthology which I came upon later in the Houghton Library at Harvard .
13 However I do not recall hearing of any problem every being experienced by low-flying military hardware or cruise-level GA over Madley Earth Station which I managed for several years prior to my retirement last year , and which I believe is a much larger facility than Oakhanger .
14 The European arts festival , which I announced on 9 December will be a rewarding and imaginative way of celebrating our Presidency of the European Community in the second half of the year .
15 And one of the differences that anorexia can become much more visible and identifiable , whereas those of us who have experienced bulimia , which I had for thirteen years , can be extremely secret and well disguised because we normally do n't change from normal body weight .
16 The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers .
17 I was hustled away to a cold , stone-flagged cell beneath the Guildhall which I shared with two of the biggest rats I have ever clapped eyes on .
18 I 'm just describing my attitude at the time , which I shared with most of my fellow students : an attitude of complete boredom and feeling that nothing was worth making an effort for .
19 An American film was showing which I recognized as Double Indemnity .
20 I soon felt hungry and thirsty , and my first food was fruit which I found on some trees near a river .
21 Two members of the W.A.A.F. posted to Station X neatly encapsulated the idiosyncratic nature of Bletchley Park and its denizens in these verses , which I found with great pleasure in Beryl Escott 's recent Women in Air Force Blue :
22 I was also gratified by the immense good will and friendship towards Britain which I encountered on all sides .
23 Also asked him for report which I needed for Statutory Review .
24 Erm , since that particular time , the financial climate has significantly changed , and the government policy in relation to certain areas of expenditure which I comment , which I commented on earlier , erm , has also changed , in that instead of paying direct grant , they are now issuing credit approvals , which permits borrowing to agreed levels within the constraints of the capital control mechanisms , that the government have in place , the controlling overall levels of indebtedness of councils .
25 It is interesting to note that Murphy 's concept of evaluation in this respect is at variance with that of Breen and Candlin which I referred to earlier .
26 And the main projections that have been work out by erm population council , United Nations and people like this , suggest a series of alternatives , which I referred to earlier .
27 The national and local results of the tests of seven-year-olds which I published on 19 December give , for the first time , a clear picture of how our seven-year-olds are performing .
28 In many ways , the area at the top of the tree parallels a structure called the ‘ Spectrum of Response ’ which I described in 1985 .
29 At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food .
30 Mrs Di Billups was head of Broughton Junior School , South Humberside , which I visited with great pleasure and profit in the summer of 1988 .
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