Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , let me say there 's one component of what Brian and Gerry have been saying , which I most passionately agree with as it happens — get that bit off my chest first — and that is that until we have a clear understanding of the mechanisms and processes of development , the processes whereby an egg turns into an adult , our theory of evolution will , indeed , be very imperfect , and we do not have such a theory , erm it 's exceedingly important that we should work on such a theory , and such a theory it is n't sufficient simply to say ‘ Oh well , there 's a genetic programme for development ’ and imagine that in other ways actually said something , because you actually have n't . |
| 2 | ‘ That is something for which I no longer have the slightest desire , ’ he assured her . |
| 3 | As regards utilising the services of third parties for debt collection , you have once again assumed the worse scenario as if I meant their complete extinction , which I quite clearly stated ‘ less dependent ’ . |
| 4 | This being Ma 's first day back , I am excused the dark , which I so richly deserve … |
| 5 | My talk , if you so wish to interpret it , is a reaction to the somewhat sterile presentation of the language which I so often see in textbooks and curriculum documents . |
| 6 | But I think it would be glorifying things a bit to say that re-created Cabinet government in its full glory , if it ever existed in its full glory in the nineteenth century , which I frankly rather doubt . |
| 7 | A post in Italy , the nature of which I never fully learnt , save that it would be of sufficient importance to take me out of uniform if I were in it , fell through with Italy 's declaration of war . |
| 8 | When I had the children I put on lots of weight which I never really lost . |
| 9 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 10 | And if you 're to try and fill her shoes , which I very much doubt you 'll ever do , but if you 're to be even half the woman that she was , may God have mercy on her , then you 'll need all the reminding I can give you . ’ |
| 11 | No , it 's too easy to forget that something which I hardly ever think about now was then a very great concern . |
| 12 | I decided not to go in there on the grounds that Tommy would not , and Tommy off duty in Tommy 's off-duty clothes was what I most definitely wanted to be at that moment . |
| 13 | what I most often heard when I phoned people a couple of days in was that it 's been the worst two days of my life ! |
| 14 | In view of what I bad already had , i. e. a kidney removed with cancer , the offensive blob we were all staring at could well be malignant . |
| 15 | ‘ He said to me , ‘ Look , you black bastard , I can do what I bloody well like ’ , ’ Roberts says . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll do what I bloody well like in my own office , ’ Mike said . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll say what I bloody well think . |
| 18 | This is just the objectivity which is to be claimed in general for the good ; what is good for me now is not necessarily good for you or for me at other times , nor even what I now spontaneously prefer , it is what anyone would spontaneously prefer for me if sufficiently aware from my present viewpoint . |