Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a [noun] [noun] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they were thinking this one out I served them with a summer casserole which Swire Sugden demolished and Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke toyed with absentmindedly . |
| 2 | Then he invited me to a gypsy baptism which was to be held that night in the suburb of Vallecas . |
| 3 | The ‘ aye dein' ’ character was the tone of voice from behind me on a bus run which was supposed to be a ‘ Mystery Tour ’ but he gave a detailed commentary on the whole journey . |
| 4 | ‘ He put me on an iron tonic which bucked me a little . |
| 5 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 6 | The King , having word of this in advance , provided him with a signet ring which he showed and which entitled the matter to be transferred to the King 's presence , where the accusers were roundly rebuked . |
| 7 | She still sees him in a business capacity which I find ‘ odd ’ . |
| 8 | They promptly referred her to a housing association which has found her a three-bedroomed house . |
| 9 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 10 | They employed hundreds of workers who had previously known lace-making as a domestic craft , and turned it into a mass-production industry which brought an end to cottage lace-making here and in the villages of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire . |
| 11 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 12 | A student of mine in a Spenser class which read A Present View suggested it seemed peculiar to be reading a piece by an author commonly hailed as one of the great writers of the English Renaissance putting forward views which makes him a type of war criminal within a twentieth-century perspective . |
| 13 | PHH AllStar Ltd are advising people who used an All Star Fuel Card to purchase private fuel during the 1989/90 tax year not to pay National Insurance contributions on it until a test case which PHH is currently bringing against the Department of Social Security is decided ( p 106 ) . |
| 14 | Fleet management specialists PHH AllStar Ltd are advising people who used an All Star Fuel Card to purchase private fuel during the 1989/90 tax year not to pay National Insurance contributions on it until a test case which PHH is currently bringing against the Department of Social Security is decided . |
| 15 | The effect of the decision in Aveling Barford is that where a company has no retained earnings , a transfer by it to a sister company which is known to be at an under value may be treated as an unauthorised return of capital . |
| 16 | She also began to read her father 's books , Freud , Jung , Melanie Klein , the psychoanalytic canon , which became the subject of endless conversations between them across a dinner table which most often they shared alone . |
| 17 | One of the Ness men was acting as guide and he took us to a rock bothy which the men use during their stay . |