Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] " 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 | After supper the ladies sung Erse songs , to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera , delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand . ’ |
| 8 | Denise Harriman , the senator 's aide , uttered a barely audible sigh which I translated as an expression of relief that her responsibility for the twins was ending . |
| 9 | I shall continue to pursue another matter on which I touched in an Adjournment debate , although it is difficult to arouse great interest in it among Conservative Members or among anyone else . |
| 10 | I shall certainly answer the question , because we have a policy to which I alluded as a result of an interruption made by the Government Whip . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out . |
| 13 | 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 ! " |
| 14 | I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles . |
| 15 | My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern . |
| 16 | They swarmed round the town at night and came close to the tent in which I slept in the consulate compound . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I hope you are both as well as you can be , and to make up for my lack of inspiration here is a poem which I discovered in a very nice book of modern Scottish poetry : — |
| 21 | The teacher punished me , and from then on I had to keep the bird in a small cage which I hung in a tree outside the classroom window . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Last year I was given a beautiful blue pot hydrangea which I planted in the garden when it finished flowering . |
| 24 | It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years . |
| 25 | Multiplied by three point five which I brought to a figure of a hundred and twenty six thousand five hundred and twenty seven pounds and fifty six pence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , in a " matched guise " test which I administered to a class of fourteen to fifteen year-old adolescents in the speaker 's own home area , seven out of eleven black pupils judged her to be black on the basis of an extract from the story above ( see Chapter 4 for a discussion ) . |
| 28 | Around that time I wrote a piece in a journal which I co-wrote with a friend . |
| 29 | The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November . |
| 30 | However , I shall return to the four themes which I identified at the beginning , and which have been threaded through the discussion . |