Example sentences of "[det] [noun] which [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 2 | Obviously , Beatrice was enjoying taunting her editor and former lover with her constant references to another man which he would have understood . |
| 3 | One of the few complaints which I would make is that the actor looks much too spruce for someone who is living rough in every sense of the word — forever dossing down in stations and trains and consuming endless quantities of the most vicious liquors . |
| 4 | That is sufficient for the disposal of this appeal which I would allow albeit with no little regret . |
| 5 | I have a thick wad of these letters which I would love to read out , so that they would be put on the record . |
| 6 | I can not think of anything that happened that day which I would have wished otherwise . |
| 7 | I have never shared the wild enthusiasm for anything ‘ single-bit ’ with which its arrival was greeted in some quarters ; indeed there are still only a handful of players of that ilk which I would contemplate as replacements for a good multi-bit machine , but this is one of them . |
| 8 | So as a small token of appreciation , I just have two books or two copies of the same book which I would like to hand to your president and to your general secretary as a token of appreciation and it 's the authorized biography of Nelson Mandela of whom we are all very proud , considering what he has suffered through and what he has done and we hope that this little token will be a kind of memento for all your support but by doing this I 'm not saying that your support is over because the struggle continues . |
| 9 | One upper-class motherless boy moved to live with a great-uncle who ‘ treated me with the same affection which he would have given to a son . |
| 10 | They seem unskilled in the simple acts that console women when they are distressed — like being held gently for as long as they need to be held , making murmuring noises rather than using words ( or even worse , forming sentences ) , wiping tears away and blowing noses … in other words giving the same comfort which you would give to a child . |