Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] do [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But should go to another factory and er hold your own in the factory you could expect to get the full money , which I did at twenty one . |
| 2 | But an acknowledgment of bias is not a license to parade personal prejudice as sound reasoning , which you do in this issue . |
| 3 | Granny decided to dismount which she did with some difficulty on account of.having to keep her frock pulled down to hide her torn drawers . |
| 4 | Finch encouraged her to talk about Sam , which she did to nervous excess , while Barrett made innumerable cups of tea and coffee . |
| 5 | Erm and I think that it is a very useful exercise to discover which things you know fall below that break even point and which things are therefore if you like internally subsidized or which we do for one reason or another . |
| 6 | His aim was to beat the weather and bowl them out again , which we did for 40 , thereby winning by an innings . |
| 7 | It confirms their arguments by showing us a wealth of British paintings and prints , and allows the ‘ victims ’ — in the form of contemporary artists from the Lebanon , India , Iran and Iraq — to answer back , which they do with uncomfortable success . |
| 8 | If private certification firms are in business to earn profits , which they do by charging firms for a certificate attesting the quality or safety of a product , which then allows firms to sell more of the product at any given price , will not firms have an incentive to bribe the certifier to obtain the certificate ? |
| 9 | ‘ All the restaurants are very good and one of the specialities is tail of lobster which they do in various ways , with garlic butter or tarragon butter . ’ |
| 10 | Informed of this impasse , Mr Baker instructed the civil servants to go away and sort it out , which they did with admirable diplomacy . |
| 11 | Melissa , struggling to follow the staccato bursts of speech that punctuated their intake of food , was so fascinated by their mannerisms that more than once she lost the thread of what they were saying and had to beg them to speak more slowly , which they did with great good humour and shrieks of tinny laughter . |
| 12 | Once I did this without looking where I was going and went straight into the backs of nine armourers who were ambling towards the Mess for supper , and had to be disentangled from my machine , picked up and dusted off , which they did with all the gleeful enthusiasm which Thursby reserved for drawing his heavy black frontal lines on our neatly drawn charts . |
| 13 | The pro-choice forces in the republic advised voters to vote ‘ yes ’ to travel abroad for abortion , ‘ yes ’ to receive information about abortion services ( both of which they did in large majorities ) , and ‘ no ’ on the ‘ substantive ’ issue because the preceding judgment in the Supreme Court was in fact more liberal : it permits abortion in Ireland if the woman threatens suicide . |
| 14 | The Railway was purchased by The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Preservation Society , formed by people who wished to re-open the line , which they did in 1968 . |
| 15 | Bishop Lacey asked Lady Alice Dundas and her sister Charlotte to form a Guild , which they did by 1892 — 14 years after the Diocese began . |
| 16 | Shaw 's intent was always to challenge the conventional , which he did through dialogue-based plays of ideas . |
| 17 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 18 | Each evening , the child was given a piece of chalk and shown how to cross the days off which he did with great satisfaction . |
| 19 | He was warned of at least 15 contacts in the Cranfield overhead by the Luton Approach controller and instructed to contact Cranfield by radio which he did at 1227:05 hrs , stating his altitude as 2000 feet . |
| 20 | At first , the only way was to rent studio space on a percentage basis with the services of a secretary , which he did for eighteen months or so . |
| 21 | Nothing is known about his activities until he was authorized , by Elizabeth I 's signet of 8 July 1563 , to prospect for minerals in England , which he did during that summer . |
| 22 | At the end of the war OSS naturally expected it would be allowed to continue in some peacetime role but the FBI , which was jealous of the way OSS had taken over its role of supplying the president with foreign intelligence , pressured President Truman into terminating OSS 's activities , which he did in 1945 . |
| 23 | But after graduating he joined rival firm Scott Oswald to complete his formal accountancy training , although the understanding was that he would return to the family fold once he had qualified with the opposition , which he did in 1985 . |
| 24 | Which it does for several years . |
| 25 | It issues pollution warnings only when the level exceeds 100 ppb , which it did on seven occasions in the 1990 summer . |
| 26 | They had waited for the Darkfall to blow itself out , which it did in spectacular fashion . |
| 27 | What I done on that night was no more than any other police officer does or would do in the same situation . |
| 28 | you know what I did at four in the nursery ? |
| 29 | Not that I have anything against gas fitters but I do think that to do what I did at 15 takes a bit more courage . |
| 30 | And er I thought I can do what I did at forty , and I did it , but look what I 've got now . |