Example sentences of "and [Wh det] he [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His lecture is a very good example , therefore , of " pragmatic ambivalence " ( Leech 1983 ) , conveying , on one level , an academic argument which is appropriate to the speech event , but on another level , a strongly political protest which is not , and which he may deny was intended if challenged . |
| 2 | That secret self which he drew on , and which he would draw out and test as time went on , was not for public display unless Burton willed it . |
| 3 | He even had on a collar and tie , which I 'd never seen before and which he would tug at every now and then as if it were too tight . |
| 4 | Man must learn to distinguish between those things which are given and which he must accept as part of his creatureliness , and those conditions which , exercising his responsibility towards creation , he must seek to change . |
| 5 | There is a sundial over the door , dated 1751 , and inscribed with the reminder ‘ Time Passeth ’ — a concept which surely impressed the young Tennyson and which he must have mused upon a length as a boy . |
| 6 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 7 | A quiver ran through her which heated as it travelled through her body and which he must have noticed , for he smiled mockingly at her . |
| 8 | He may receive suggestions from the parties on which they may agree and which he can adopt . |
| 9 | David Greenland , of North Terrace , Gainford , said Sturdy , whom he knew from school , offered him a deal which he thought would boost trade and which he could terminate if he wanted to . |
| 10 | The tiger that was nearest to him , and which he could see most easily , seemed so bored that he did the same thing day after day , hour after hour . |
| 11 | Opposite him , he noticed that Janet Roscoe had delved once more into the deep handbag , this time producing a very slim volume , whose title it was impossible for him not to see , and which he could have guessed in any case : CHAUCER , Tale of the Wyf of Bathe . |
| 12 | I told him all about himself and what he ought to do in life . |
| 13 | He forgot , momentarily , about the MP and what he might have to say . |
| 14 | And what he would do in return . |
| 15 | Heinrich was thinking over all the implications of the last hour , and what he would do if he were correct . |
| 16 | I wondered how comfortable he would be and what he would make of the covers I had borrowed from the farmer 's wife . |
| 17 | Curious about everything ; about the men who paid so little attention to her , wondering where they were taking her ; about Allen , wondering what he was doing ; about the Friar and what he would think when he found them gone ; about herself that she should be so indifferent to her circumstances and so little fearful ; and a little curious , but least curious of all , about the Friar 's sack , curious as to why if it contained only the remnants of a meal he had been so concerned to hide it and so uneasy at leaving it in their care . |
| 18 | She knew why he had come and what he would tell her , and she did n't want to hear it . |
| 19 | He dressed quickly , all the time arguing fiercely with himself , working out possible conversations with his mother , and what he would say to her , the devastating arguments he would present … and all the time he knew that she would say her piece and he would agree . |
| 20 | This means someone who knows what makes an artist tick and what he would like — a father confessor or counsellor if you like ’ . |
| 21 | The deadening sense of obligation with which Coleridge had returned to Bristol was now swiftly transformed , until , as a ‘ neutral spectator ’ ( perhaps Cottle ) told Thomas De Quincey , ‘ if ever in his life he had seen a man under deep fascination , and what he would have called desperately in love , Coleridge , in relation to Miss F , was that man ’ . |
| 22 | What I said was there was some discretion was in the hands of the Home Secretary when he brought forward that commencement date and what he would have in mind is of course the er er not merely what happens er er i er erm in the er er our colleague countries in the community on their commencing er their changes , er but also in the kind of time we would actually need , political parties would need , candidates would need , to run an efficient election campaign here . |
| 23 | Acting on that basis , the kind of socialism that he advocated was then , was guild socialism , or more popularly nowadays , workers ' control , and what he would have hoped to see was something which , most mysteriously , does n't yet even now seem to be coming to the fore , the use of industrial power by the workers not merely for economic advantage but for political ends . |
| 24 | He was much more content now , though melancholy about himself and what he 'd come to . |
| 25 | ‘ Never , ’ Harrison said , lying , for his whole purpose was to get back to his father 's farm to work out when he could return and what he could offer Mary . |
| 26 | And what he used to do in this , he had a string in the and er he could the string put some some er crumbs in the in the er in a and the birds go in and he used to he used to catch them and we used to kill them and pluck them you know . |
| 27 | A task has been allocated to the human operator and what he must do is a function of the needs of the hardware . |
| 28 | But his hand was up , silencing me and what he must have guessed were to be my thanks . |
| 29 | The polarising thinker needs to know what he is to agree with and what he must attack . |
| 30 | " It would have been immensely preferable for my return to be accomplished by the [ legal ] process , " de Gaulle told Dulac , but added cryptically : " Tell General Salan that what he has done and what he will do is for the good of France . " |