Example sentences of "which [pron] [adv] [vb past] as [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring .
2 His departure was thought to improve the ruling Social Credit Party 's prospects ( from which he also resigned as leader ) , with an election due in 1991 , of withstanding the challenge of Canada 's increasingly successful social democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP — for its September 1990 provincial election victory in Ontario see p. 37705 ) .
3 Scotland , which he also claimed as part of his sphere of primatial authority , was cut off by the barrier of the province of York .
4 He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope .
5 It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope .
6 In the midst of fraught domestic politics and Anglo-papal aggravations , Bubwith was twice translated in reshuffles in 1407 , first to Salisbury ( which he never visited as bishop ) and then to Bath and Wells , not unwillingly .
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