Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual pattern was for all to congregate in Minton 's studio where he might cook a large risotto after which they went to a film . |
| 2 | Professor Thomas Gordon joined them for breakfast at the New Inn , after which they went to a Service at the ‘ English chapel ’ , that is to say , the Episcopalian , that is to say , the Anglican church in Scotland . |
| 3 | I rang the owner Gary Harris , and arranged with him to go out to the USA and view the aircraft , after which we came to an agreement and I purchased the Corsair . |
| 4 | Thereafter it appears that Haycock himself rather than his father was the main architect member of the firm , although , in partnership with his brother Robert , he continued to engage in building as well as architecture until c .1845 , after which he practised as an architect only . |
| 5 | Connolly was sentenced to one day 's imprisonment , after which he applied for a summons against the labour master for alleged assault . |
| 6 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 7 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 8 | On Feb. 18 after what he described as a " routine investigative hearing " a Libyan judge rejected extradition of the two men accused of the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 9 | One sees that X ( and Y ) alternates between intervals during which it oscillates about a positive level and ones during which it oscillates about a negative level . |
| 10 | One sees that X ( and Y ) alternates between intervals during which it oscillates about a positive level and ones during which it oscillates about a negative level . |
| 11 | Yet to give instant opinions on the long term impact of the many educational reports , speeches , Parliamentary debates , learned researches , books , ideas and happenings which marked the years through which I worked as a teacher was quite impossible . |
| 12 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 13 | This had a limited circulation : mainly , it seems , through the party for which it acted as a channel of information about policies . |
| 14 | I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week . |
| 15 | Steve Kember is a Croydon lad and has always been a great favourite at his local Football League Club , for which he signed as an apprentice in 1963 and full professional in 1965 . |
| 16 | ‘ A night out with John Minton , ’ Lehmann recorded in his diary in October 1951 , ‘ for which he arrived with a bunch of carnations in the wildest , gayest form , having been on a jag for three nights — and continued it that night in spite of my attempts at restraint ( which were spoiled by laughing all the time ) , flinging his arms about , shouting shrilly with highly risqué asseverations at the White Tower ( at which Tennessee [ Williams ] appeared for a hallucinatory moment ) , becoming embarrassingly affectionate and enthusiastic about me , and pouring money out for champagne in the Caribbean and another unidentified night club . ’ |
| 17 | Tom Sutcliffe 's wife not only acted as his Secretary and personal interpreter , but made her own contribution to the cause for which he worked as a teacher of sign language and an outstanding interpreter particularly in the educational field . |
| 18 | He was a very much larger than life character who it is understood , although it may not be strictly true , was sacked three times by his company for which he worked as a salesman . |
| 19 | The twins ' outfits for the panto , two of which they modelled for a preview , have cost £13,500 . |
| 20 | They had all the grain of which they needed for a good breakfast to finish |
| 21 | While the soft-voiced viol consort was peculiarly suitable for domestic music , there was a standard mixed consort for public occasions , of which we hear in an account ( 1591 ) of an entertainment for Elizabeth I at Elvetham in Hampshire : an ‘ exquisite consort , wherein was the lute , bandora , base-viol , citterne , treble-violl , and flute ’ . |
| 22 | Forbes 's 1989 list of the 400 wealthiest people in the United States estimates Mr Kluge 's net worth at $5.2bn ( £3.3bn ) , much of which he realised in a sale of six television stations to a fellow media mogul , Rupert Murdoch . |
| 23 | He spent a year in Britain during which time he was commissioned to write numerous articles criticising Russia which earned him a considerable amount of money , some of which he spent on a very comfortable lifestyle . |
| 24 | A worker 's average earnings are £100 per week , all of which he spends at an even rate throughout each period . |
| 25 | ( Berkeley was familiar with perspective machines , one of which he described in a later work . ) |
| 26 | Whilst in Madeira , Sir Winston was loaned the Leacock family 's Rolls-Royce , the boot of which he transformed into a bar . |
| 27 | Truman 's work focused more explicitly upon organised groups , the increasing number and importance of which he regarded as a result of governmental growth : the ‘ trend towards all increasing diversity of groups functionally attached to the institutions of government is a reflection of the characteristics and needs , to use a somewhat ambiguous term , of a complex society ’ . |
| 28 | She has always painted botanical illustrations of flowers in watercolour some of which she published in a portfolio in 1982 and others she sold . |
| 29 | Writing in 1900 , the German architect and critic Hermann Muthesius identified as one of the most significant developments in European architecture the tendency of certain British architects towards what he described as a ‘ modern ’ style , which referred to no tradition , and created a new architectural language of space and mass . |
| 30 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |