Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] were [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time I saw you , you had an old Gretsch which you were thinking of getting rid of … |
| 2 | Another recipe relied on lily of the valley , lard and a cup of old wine , which you were advised to ‘ pound together in the manner which thou mightest work a plaister , and lay to the hand ’ . |
| 3 | This was set up by the Fair Trade Foundation which you were asking about , . |
| 4 | Now what that means is that you 've admitted the offence which you were arrested for which is er |
| 5 | I only add a few words of my own out of deference to the contrary view expressed by my noble and learned friend , Lord Lowry , and to consider the cases on thefts from companies to which we were referred in the course of argument . |
| 6 | And that 's all anybody got was section six , this dreaded section six which we were taught at the end of the year ! |
| 7 | The challenge with which we were faced on the day of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion was that we knew that a very full House , which had come to hear the prime minister 's Maastricht statement , would deplete rapidly after he was finished , as the business to follow — a debate on the Earth Summit — was not very controversial . |
| 8 | A contact in Spain has managed to acquire a scarce publication which we were looking for , and has given the Library a copy . |
| 9 | I think the postman would never have been able to decipher your scribble , your own version of Walser 's MS , Bleistiftgebiet or Kingdom of the Pencil , which we were to describe in a later poem , ‘ The Poem in the Pencil ’ . |
| 10 | We live in a century imprinted on the present , which regards the past as little more than the springboard from which we were launched on our way . |
| 11 | We gathered in the Holy Name of Mary Church , Middlesbrough , with our luggage , for the celebration of Mass led by Father Ronald Prince SSS , in which we were reminded of the purpose of our pilgrimage . |
| 12 | The trial of Galileo , of which we were reminded by your excellent article ( 7 April , p 25 ) , clearly is of paramount significance in several areas of human development . |
| 13 | We 'll we 'll we 'll leave no no we 'll no no we 'll leave these these prices here which we were gon na reduce , we 're gon na |
| 14 | Er he 's bought , he 's bought her two other things which we were gon na get her so we do n't have to buy her those either . |
| 15 | Despite the chaotic and inconsistent way in which they were applied to Poland , they had , on balance , an ultimately positive effect . |
| 16 | To stay in existence , each of these communities must constantly remind us and themselves , of the violence through which they were subjugated in the first place . |
| 17 | Methodological principles need to be discussed at the rather abstract level at which they were presented in the preceding chapters ; otherwise it is not always easy to assess the applicability of a set of methods to a new research context . |
| 18 | On this occasion , some of their bags were contained in the white diplomatic bag belonging to the Foreign Office , which they were using for convenience to contain their consignment — — and , as I have explained to the House , that was the commencement of the error in question which , of course , we very much regret . |
| 19 | By the end of the 14th century the Warren family of Poynton had become Lords of the Manor , a title which they were to retain until the death of Sir George Warren in 1801 . |
| 20 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 21 | There was thus a discrepancy between the increasing importance of the dukes in international affairs and the position to which they were relegated in terms of formal honours ; and as the seventeenth century progressed many governments became willing to regard them as de facto royal . |
| 22 | Although I believe that hysteria , as classically defined , can provide only a part of the answer to the problem of anorexia nervosa , it is a starting-point and , in the light of Szasz 's observation that ‘ hysterical conversion is best regarded as a process of translation , ’ I propose to translate the history of my own symptoms back into the language in which they were intended to be expressed . |
| 23 | I was working and all of a sudden and one the woman began to sing Rock of Ages in a loud voice and then the man joined in and I sort of thought I heard sort of and I thought oh , they 've got a bottle which they 've taken out of their pockets which they were passing from side to side . |
| 24 | Well my Lord I must say it had occurred to me erm that certainly on the basis on which I 'm contending for damages to be assessed with the plaintiffs and it is completely irrelevant , er er many of the matters to which the defendant 's expert goes to as to the damages and the extent to which they were caused by the negligence of the defendant , the breach of duty . |
| 25 | But it only increased the suspicion with which they were regarded by some of the boys , and there were those who were upset by the homosexuality which John and some of his friends made no attempt to hide . |
| 26 | Over time , constables assumed the same pathological spectacles through which they were seen by the organization . |
| 27 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 28 | There is much less evidence for the fifth century than for the fourth , when Philip and Alexander attracted attention to Macedon , but recently discovered gravestones show that by 400–350 Macedonians had good Greek names ( which they were given in the fifth century , of course ) like Xenokrates , Pierion and Kleonymos ( M. B. Hatzopoulos and L. D. Loukopoulos ( 1980 ) Philip of Macedon , plates 109–10 on pp. 206–7 ) . |
| 29 | For example , it included costs which ought more properly to have been included in their bill relating to the divorce proceedings , in which they were acting for the father . |
| 30 | Notwithstanding a marked inferiority at centre and back row , the champions , with only nine of their title-winning side and four newcomers to county rugby , made an unstinting contribution to a fluid game in which they were outscored in tries only three to four . |