Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My topic was press coverage of the IQ controversy , which I thought distorted to the point of newsworthiness . |
| 2 | The door was open , and as there was no reply to our knocking , we walked in and along the corridor which I knew led to the main living quarters . |
| 3 | but I , I 'd like to go and ask there some time whether they did Oh that 's the one for sale which I saw advertised in the paper today |
| 4 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 5 | It was published shortly after I 'd taken part in a time and motion study during which I 'd spoken to the man with the clip-board and asked a few pertinent questions . |
| 6 | As a parting gift the Keraing had given me a scale model of the prahu we were sailing in , which I had lashed to the hull walls facing backwards . |
| 7 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 8 | I was pleased at being only a metre behind which I had lost at the start , but it was all really anti-climactic after Stuttgart . |
| 9 | My best course would have been to follow the track to the village , strike the road , and then to go along the road until I met the track by which I had come from the shore . |
| 10 | I determined that it should not happen again and it seemed impossible that it should for this time I should carry with me the foundation of happiness which I had found behind the wire . |
| 11 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
| 12 | So I soon turned away , regretting only the loss of the shiny new tenpenny piece which I had inserted into the coin box to avoid any irritating boop-boop-boop cutting in to what I had stupidly hoped would be an uplifting and wholly encouraging conversation about my work and prospects . |
| 13 | It was the manuscript of Lord Byron 's poem which I had retrieved from the floor on the previous evening . |
| 14 | The knowledge which I had acquired from the LCCIEB was so relevant that I enjoyed the course tremendously . |
| 15 | It looked and tasted exactly the same as the previous day 's meal which I had sampled in the Superintendent 's office — a medium-hot vegetable curry containing a mixture of root and leafy vegetables . |
| 16 | I went to the store to check up on some things , and saw that eight Kandinskys which I had bought from the widow of Kandinsky 's secretary were missing . |
| 17 | Incidentally , the P-40 in the RAF Museum at Hendon was based on a picture my father had of FX760 ‘ GA- ? ’ which I had donated to the Museum a number of years ago for such a display . |
| 18 | We at Holy Cross were able to have a happy relationship with the Baptists at Judson College , and I was invited to give a regular course in the comparative study of religion , which I attempted to do in the way which would now be described as that of dialogue . |
| 19 | In this case , the bouquet was a curved shower , the shape of which I tried to recreate in the picture shown opposite . |
| 20 | It was in London that you could live anonymously , could create your own ambience , could deliberately fabricate the persona which you chose to present to the world . |
| 21 | Include also those items which you wanted to have in the past but dismissed because you thought you could not have them or simply forgot about them . |
| 22 | Prunskiene , who had resigned as Prime Minister on Jan. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 37944 ] , consistently denied the accusations ( made in April — see p. 38880 ) , claiming that a document bearing her signature in which she agreed to work for the KGB was a forgery and that the trial was politically motivated . |
| 23 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 24 | They hoped that the dynamic forces released by socialism would generate new wealth , enabling Britain to stride the world once more in a continuing and -equal partnership with the United States , rather than as the American satellite which she had become in the latter phases of the Second World War . |
| 25 | She ran down the stairs , unbolted the heavy wooden door and was off , running in her nightdress , barefoot across the garden , holding the torch which she had snatched from the chest in the entrance hall . |
| 26 | She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards . |
| 27 | Comments which she had made to the Washington Post after the Los Angeles riots — including the remark that " if black people kill black people every day , why not have a week killing white people ? " — were , Clinton said , " filled with a kind of hatred that you do not honour tonight " . |
| 28 | She put up her hands in a gesture reminiscent of the one which she had made in the attic , when she had been still fearful of him and of all men , but the gesture was as much for Havvie as for him . |
| 29 | Somehow Dr Neil 's touch did not seem to affect her as badly as that of most men , even though in the cab home sitting so near to him nearly brought on the kind of faintness which she had felt on the walk home from church . |
| 30 | Furious but civil , he had offered to go round to her flat to see her , an offer which she had declined with the first sign of decisiveness she had been heard to display . |