Example sentences of "[noun] from which [pers pn] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after the 29th Division began landing , officers walked unmolested to the village of Krithia some 3km/2mls inland and to the 180m/600ft high summit of Achi Baba , commanding positions from which it would have been easy to repel any Turkish counter-attack . |
| 2 | 2.47 Lord Pearson would have awarded a multiplicand of £4,000 from which he would have deducted £250 for the accelerated receipt of the £10,000 . |
| 3 | The unfortunates were sent over to the other building from which they would ring clients who owed money , and would demand of them immediate payment . |
| 4 | The whole thing hidden beneath layers of ice and rock , untraceable from the air : a flexible and formidable system of defences from which they would launch their attack on the Seven . |
| 5 | They wished their uncle would come and they could vanish into the huge car but no motor could be heard in the direction from which he would come . |
| 6 | Yes , a Portakabin from which you would have to produce three cooked meals a day for roughly 2,000 people , including a turkey dinner with all the trimmings . |
| 7 | Leaning back in his chair John-William was unaware of the sleep which abruptly overcame him , an old man 's sleep from which he would wake presently with a start and in great confusion . |
| 8 | Beside him on the counter were large dirty bottles of gilt glass from which he would take out the stoppers and daub them on the sleeves of passers-by . |
| 9 | It was a nightmare from which he would awaken at any moment . |
| 10 | Even their kisses might give him a disease from which he would die or become horribly spotty . |
| 11 | The persons assigned to act as regional commissioners were placed on standby and the secret bunkers from which they would control their regions were prepared for occupation . |