Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] which [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that there was a good meal of mutton stew and Aunt Sarah 's feather-light dumplings ( none of which anyone could eat ) and they went to bed early . |
| 2 | There was nothing with which she could find fault , and eventually she turned to Mr Miller and said , ‘ You 've got a wonderful collection here and I 'm full of admiration at the way in which you look after them . ’ |
| 3 | It was everything for which he could have asked . |
| 4 | There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves . |
| 5 | Something with which we could go to the customer and say , ‘ This is the sort of thing it is now possible to do . |
| 6 | I looked round for something with which I could knock him out after we had taken off . |
| 7 | What he meant was they might be able to come off the building sites , and fall into a featherbed job , one in which they could wear nice suits and drive fancy cars , in return for looking after one very rich old man 's ‘ interests ’ . |
| 8 | Two fifteenth-century archbishops of Canterbury , Chichele and Bourchier , write of ‘ the Church of England ’ in terms which show that they regarded it as a distinctive entity within the Church Universal , and one in which they could take considerable national pride . |
| 9 | This early atmosphere was not one in which we could have survived . |
| 10 | The ideal working dress would , therefore , be one in which you could reach up high to bring down the best china , bend down low to pick up the dropped toy , feel comfortable in for walking around the park and pushing a pram or playing ball , not worry about if baby food was deposited on it , move around in easily with a baby on your hip and cover up totally for rolling out pastry or helping with painting . |
| 11 | It 's not something on which one could fault the Victorians , for instance . ’ |
| 12 | I did n't envy them their individual futures , which seemed dull or trivial to me , but I did envy the fact they had futures at all , whereas I had none , or , at least , not one to which I could look forward with any confidence . |
| 13 | A number of tradesmen in the timber , textile and tin-plate industries looked upon coffin-making and funeral furnishing as something by which they could profit , and it was not unknown for some to meet with such success that they abandoned their established trade to go into undertaking full time . |
| 14 | But , of course , there was nothing on which she could strike the flint . |
| 15 | But there were never any open words expressing the inflection , never anything to which he could raise objection . |