Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The hostess came to greet me , and in reply to my question said that chicken curry was cooking , which I ordered with satisfaction . |
2 | They never ever mention them bloody things , they were them windscreen wipers which I ordered before Christmas and it 's , it 's ridiculous , cos that 's , I know I can eh , I know by the er , by the er , that 's where I sent them back to that Brian Mill whatever I call it , well |
3 | I found nothing noteworthy except on one , possibly the leader , who had a considerable amount of silver which I pocketed for distribution to the poor . |
4 | At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand . |
5 | Jesus Christ several times appeared to her with a sweet and gracious countenance , saying to her to rouse her courage , ‘ remember my love , that the bed of the cross on which I died for love of you was harder , narrower and more painful than that on which you are now lying' ’ . |
6 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
7 | Now the police authorities a and the local authorities and the magistrates may be thought to be indulging in special preening , but I do assure Your Lordships that they really are not alone in expressing their anxieties er about the er er er this bill and what it proposes , for example , if I may , I would like to refer to a letter which I received from Justice , chaired by my Noble Friend Lord Alexander of and with his Vice-chairman er er Lord and er they say as an all-party human rights organisation , Justice considers that the composition of police authorities is an important constitutional issue effecting the independence of policing . |
8 | Yeah I 've got another trip which I saw on telly , again which I shall never do I think , er which sounded pretty good , you flew , flew to er |
9 | Janice Flook ( Mrs Boniface ) writes ‘ after a varied career during which I migrated from chemistry to computing to telecommunications , I am now enjoying the early years of our son Keith who was born last year . |
10 | We have three levels of communicative assessments ( covering roughly the first three years of the secondary curriculum ) which I coordinate on behalf of EMREB and the LEAs . |
11 | Another emotion which is somewhat elaborated upon by the Chewong is that expressed by the word chan which I translate as anger or angry . |
12 | At 13 , I was sent to Dovercourt camp , which I remember with affection because it was my first home after leaving my family in Germany . |
13 | I think in all this textual fussing Dostoevsky was also — and increasingly — troubled by the chapter 's footnote status and by the problem which I picture as obstruction by Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov in his backward groping towards the underground man . |
14 | Inside the solid lumps of our brain lives the experience which appears to the subject as an ordered world , the room in which I write for example . |
15 | Are the rather variable and unpredictable patterns of kin support , which I identified in chapter 1 , of recent origin ? |
16 | I never wore the roll-neck out there again and as the years passed I was gradually given a large wardrobe of beautiful traditional dresses , which I wore with comfort and delight , each dress reminding me of the giver . |
17 | But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps . |
18 | Had I gone on with this research at the depth which I had in view I would undoubtedly have used a far more informal interview and , having chosen possible points of difference , I would have introduced these in the interviews and let the informants develop the themes themselves . |
19 | We squashed side by side in the small double bed which I shared with Grandma when she came to stay . |
20 | This was typified by the television commentaries , which I heard on video when I returned to Britain . |
21 | A story which I heard from Dad about his days at Charlton-All-Saints brought a chuckle from him as he told it but , at the time , the occasion must have been almost tragic . |
22 | This idea that parents have equal responsibilities towards their children has remained the dominant one in the twentieth century , as is evidenced by the contemporary research data on inheritance which I discussed in chapter 1 . |
23 | Professor Gilbert Kelling has suggested to me that the widespread early Cambrian and early Ordovician quartzites , which I discussed in chapter 1 , may represent episodes of plate stability . |
24 | But there is also a more general competition and conflict among nation states , some aspects of which I discussed in Chapter 5 , that has proved so far impossible to overcome , or even to moderate substantially . |
25 | lt is to be distinguished from summative evaluation , which I associate with assessment , a periodic measurement rather than a continuous monitoring of process . |
26 | And he took out of his wallet a tiny piece of paper , which I recognized as part of my sketch book , and showed it to me . |
27 | He produced in the palm of his right hand two slender plastic spools , which I recognized as nostovision bullets , ready to be inserted into the head-laser . |
28 | One held up a Bible and a rosary , but none spoke until an older man , their commanding officer , strode up with an outstretched hand which I shook without enthusiasm . |
29 | I raised over £4OO in total , which I gave to Cancer Research and the Multiple Sclerosis Society . ’ |
30 | We have just sent a supplementary response to the WTB which I enclose for information . |