Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb -s] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siobham half fills each glass in turn except one which she fills to the brim . |
| 2 | This was echoed by another boy : You see , my mom right , she says some words to me , right , sometimes , right , wha' I ca n't understand you know an' I sort of start laughin' , but then again right , y' know , I can understand some o' de words which she says to me y' know — I even speak it back to her , y' see . |
| 3 | In the original version , now lost , of the chapter in which she reads to Raskolnikov the gospel story of the raising of Lazarus , Dostoevsky intended and wrote a head-on debate about Christianity ; but his publishers refused to print it . |
| 4 | Ivy might have said ) fills her empty life by writing fantastic love-letters to herself which she reads to her employer . |
| 5 | She has a health card , which she produces to the cops on demand . |
| 6 | She becomes drawn into the business dealings of the Countess , a New York cosmetics tycoon , in the course of which she travels to the Rubber Rose Ranch , a Dakota health spa , and takes part in a revolt by the cowgirls . |
| 7 | His daughter , Mary Moore , who enthusiastically supported the exhibition and was guest of honour at the opening , is well known for opposing the approach to her father 's work and , above all to his house and studios at Perry Green , taken by the Henry Moore Foundation , which she considers to be over-institutional , insufficiently concerned with the memory of her father and out of tune with his intentions . |
| 8 | I think she 's going to go a long way — which she deserves to . ’ |
| 9 | She is smaller than her brother , with a rich mane of chestnut hair which she wears to the waist . |
| 10 | The creation of her own with which she claims to be most impressed is a roulade of guinea fowl with limes and cranberries . |
| 11 | Marshall outlines the history and special qualities of the so-called Piffaro Organ of 1519 in the Church of Santa Maria della Scale , Sienna , on which she brings to life works that almost demand the voicings and colours of such an instrument . |
| 12 | Rather than giving the same recognition to differences among literacies which he proposes to be differences among languages , he uses what is in fact the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy as the basis for arguments about the specific nature of the English language . |
| 13 | Robbe-Grillet stated that it was the tension between reference and reflexivity which characterized his works , and described as naive the belief ( which he admits to having encouraged ) in the self-generating text devoid of a controlling subjectivity ( see Robbe-Grillet 1984 : 10 — 13 ) . |
| 14 | In the same conversational turn , he changes the topic to a lengthy , rhapsodic utterance on the flexing motion of the aircraft 's wings : Anderson 's sudden topic-change and subsequent change of register in the very lyrical statement about McKendrick 's cigarette smoke , is partly explained by the fear of flying which he admits to here , and which is indicated just before the topic-change in Stoppard 's stage directions — " … |
| 15 | When I speak to him he responds ; but not with the same speed with which he responds to his nurse , from whom of course he obtains satisfaction of his physical needs . |
| 16 | Hilton recognises that while it is apparently unreasonable for man governed by reason utterly to devalue himself and attribute any good things which he does to Christ it is nevertheless the route to true identity , away from the temporal accidents which attract the self , to its essential which is discovered in Christ himself . |
| 17 | In a well-known Christian discourse , chapter 17 of The Acts of the Apostles , St Paul makes a speech to the Athenians in which he refers to an altar inscribed with the words , ‘ To an unknown God ’ . |
| 18 | His seeming determination to be confused with the distinguished British artist is evident in the recent press release advertising an exhibition of his work in which he refers to his emphasis on non-commissioned portrait drawings which ‘ entail months , even years , of work with the sitter , while very little peripheral material such as smaller studies , sculpture , and etchings is allowed to emerge from the studio ’ . |
| 19 | ON TRACK PAUL Merson models the new Umbro England tracksuit — which he hopes to be wearing in Spain next month . |
| 20 | Shklovsky calls this realistic side-effect ‘ motivation ’ , which he contrasts to the laying bare of the device . |
| 21 | He characterises the mining bourgeoisie in Peru as a corporate national bourgeoisie , which he considers to be progressive as it is nationalist and developmentalist . |
| 22 | This was the approach adopted by the Divisional Court in Reg. v. Governor of Pentonville Prison , Ex parte Osman [ 1990 ] 1 W.L.R. 277 , 299–300 , where it was stated that the magistrate should reject any evidence which he considers to be worthless . |
| 23 | ‘ The judge may read in words which he considers to be necessarily implied by words which are already in the statute , and he has a limited power to add to , alter or ignore statutory words in order to prevent a provision from being unintelligible or absurd or totally unreasonable , unworkable or totally irreconcilable with the rest of the statute . ’ |
| 24 | Already , said station manager John Moares , 130 people had applied for early retirement in recent weeks a situation which he considers to be partly connected with the station 's uncertain future . |
| 25 | The writer 's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what , without this book , he would perhaps never have perceived in himself . |
| 26 | Where the debtor intends to oppose the petition , he must not later than seven days before the hearing file at court a notice specifying the grounds on which he objects to the making of a bankruptcy order and send a copy of the notice to the petitioning creditor ( r 6.21 ) . |
| 27 | Szeliga has a promotional budget of £1 million this year to carve a slice of the UK market for loudspeakers , which he estimates to be worth £50 million , and an R&D budget of up to £20 million over five years to develop amplifiers , compactdisc players and cassette decks , a sector estimated to be worth £1 billion a year in Britain . |
| 28 | The price is more likely to relate to the individual picker and the regularity with which he sells to the warehouse . |
| 29 | What is a voidable title and how it differs from a void title can best be shown by an example : A owns some goods which he sells to B who in turn sells them to C. If the first contract ( i.e. Between A and B ) is valid then title passes from A to B. If it is void for any reason then it is no contract at all and no ownership passes to B. If it is voidable then it is initially valid but can be avoided ( set aside ) later . |
| 30 | For example , if a program calls for divergent responses to open questions and the teacher only accepts responses which he deems to be ‘ correct ’ , then the potential of the program to stimulate divergent thinking will be at least partly thwarted . |