Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At an effective level , the one at which I made it possible for Jean-Claude to work uninterruptedly , I felt both the benefits of a com-panionable relationship with someone of whom I was , in many ways , admiring , and a sense of my own worth : I was useful to him . |
| 2 | I suspect that the hon. Gentleman had framed his supplementary before hearing my answer to his question , in which I made it clear that the number of nurses who were employed during that period was far greater than the number who qualified . |
| 3 | I refer you to my letter of 8 March regarding the above tape , with which I sent you two copies of the Agreement that had been drawn up ( following your request of 7 March ) . |
| 4 | A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ? |
| 5 | She was notorious for having lots of love affairs which she told us all about . |
| 6 | She listens to him more than anyone , and it was his will which prevailed when she composed last year 's Christmas speech , in which she made it clear that she would never abdicate . |
| 7 | Jazz was limping and making pained , mutterings and cursings which she thought it tactful to ignore . |
| 8 | When the Foreign Office List made its first appearance " it was strongly objected to in certain quarters , as likely to afford information to the general public with regard to the office , which they thought it advisable they should not possess , and much information was for a time withheld " . |
| 9 | He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters . |
| 10 | After other speeches condemning Ian Paisley , Terence O'Neill rose and delivered a long statement in which he made it clear that he regarded the defeat of Ian Paisley as a central part of his reforming Unionism . |
| 11 | Do you remember what I told you last night ? ’ |
| 12 | After what I told you last night , I — ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Just pray by reciting what I told you this morning , ’ the mother persuaded her . |
| 14 | But erm yeah ca n't remember what she called her little girl , Michelle I think or Michaela name anyway . |
| 15 | ‘ May I ask you what you asked me last week ? |
| 16 | ‘ My dearest David — although I do n't have the faintest idea why I should still call you this after what you told me last night — I 've had a long think . |
| 17 | ‘ Particularly , ’ she continued , quite spoiling the effect , ‘ when I remember all too well what you told me last time we met , as well as … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ What you told me last night , Rachel , only convinced me that this marriage could work , ’ he said softly , and walked towards her with a look of intent in his blue eyes that sent panic rushing through her in hot waves . |
| 19 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 20 | Dickie was in the gardens there , Pammie drove two tractor driver , Jo , Jo was the , where 's Jo , Jo was the dairy , milk , then I used to drive the other tractor when we wanted two , and what we did we all could take over from the milker when she was off , or Pammie , we could all interchange . |
| 21 | Get rid of all the clutter , but that 's what we found it most difficult |
| 22 | What they told me this morning ? ’ |
| 23 | Rather , they tell us what they told us last year — that they will maintain conditions for sustained growth . |
| 24 | Do you know what he told me last night ? |
| 25 | ‘ That is what he wanted us all to think , including the Men , ’ said Minch , ‘ and we should honour him for his cunning and intelligence . |
| 26 | He 's only recently started to take notice of Hannah like take her swimming and that on and since he found out that she 's got a heart murmur and that 's what it 's like , cos he for tea on the way back , and then he bathed the children and put them to bed , and last night no , what he put them all in the bath again , put that down again |