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

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1 ‘ The movies are true , ’ screamed my eyes from the back of the yellow can which I took from the airport .
2 Well I er do n't agree that there has been er understaffing and in the statement which I made to the House today I was able to point out what a very big increase in er the total complement of the prison officers has taken place during recent years , but it 's up to Lord Justice Woolf to look in to whatever evidence is put before him , it 's for him to look at the terms of reference and he will no doubt decide what is relevant and what is not .
3 And according to the erm agreement which I made with the franchisee in June eighty nine erm his rent is also due for review er this August .
4 However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art .
5 If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines :
6 My honourable friend from the front benches made the point about the gaps in er these regulations , they do n't cover Lloyds , they do n't cover pension schemes , pension funds they do n't cover banks which are domiciled er in the er in in the United States but er we also have the point which I made in the interjection to the minister that unless there 's a duty to detect fraud er er as well as report it , it 's really doubtful if the auditors can perform er the function .
7 Perhaps these contradictory interpretations illustrate the dangers , to which I alluded in the earlier discussion , of assuming an automatic association between classicism and positivism and specific political ideologies .
8 This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out .
9 I was crying outright now , and he made a move towards me which I sensed in the darkness , but I lashed out with my hand and knocked his arm down , and cried , " Leave me alone , that 's what you want to do ! "
10 They swarmed round the town at night and came close to the tent in which I slept in the consulate compound .
11 This is a campaign booklet which I prepared for the RCN 's Association of Nursing Students in 1985 ; much of it also applies to returning nurses .
12 The person concerned is , generally speaking , the mother , but , given the role reversal which I experienced during the school holidays , it seems reasonable to point to my father 's behaviour as a possible contributory factor to my becoming anorexic .
13 The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room .
14 I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes .
15 Last year I was given a beautiful blue pot hydrangea which I planted in the garden when it finished flowering .
16 To bring you all up-to-date , I enclose a copy of a memo which I circulated to the members of the sub-committee in January .
17 The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November .
18 However , I shall return to the four themes which I identified at the beginning , and which have been threaded through the discussion .
19 Now those honest grey eyes , which I associated with the moon , were furtive and unkind .
20 As they went downstairs , Joanna said , ‘ I 've got one dress which I wore to the veterinary congress banquet .
21 ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera .
22 Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy .
23 All my tools which I had underneath the kitchen sink , my washing powder : all gone .
24 ‘ A ludicrous , yet just image presented itself to my mind , which I expressed to the company .
25 ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character .
26 I poured him a glass of the special malt which I kept for the rare occasions of celebration or consolation in my life .
27 In a copy of Burma Today for March 1945 , which has somehow survived in my papers , I see an editorial which I wrote under the heading ‘ Britain 's Best Ambassador ’ , namely the BOR ( British Other Ranks ) , who had been fighting for over three years to liberate Burma .
28 In response to the article on Zahira 's experiences which I wrote in the Guardian I got , in addition to the usual sick and abusive letters from racists , a number of letters from English women who sympathised with Zahira .
29 He is , however , right about the basic seriousness of the problem , which I discussed with the Indonesian Foreign Minister — as , perhaps , the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) has done .
30 So I I accept there are a number of items here which I discussed with the chairman and he agreed to .
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