Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 2 | I poured him a glass of the special malt which I kept for the rare occasions of celebration or consolation in my life . |
| 3 | I had erm an eight ba er eight band wireless which I bought for a hundred and twenty quid when I was working . |
| 4 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 5 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 6 | In other words , sticking to those sectors that we know and understand and which we chose for the nineties because we believe they had good growth prospects . |
| 7 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 8 | They had all the grain of which they needed for a good breakfast to finish |
| 9 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 10 | In August 1971 , the same year in which he married for the second time , Canetti 's brother , Georg , was dying . |
| 11 | His visit , during which he apologised for the French role in the Rainbow Warrior affair , marked a considerable improvement in bilateral relations [ see p. 38153 ; but see also p. 38345 for New Zealand condemnation of the honouring of the French agent involved in the Rainbow Warrior affair ] . |
| 12 | He recalled Blaney 's pallid and innocuous watercolours of the better-known beauty spots of Norfolk : Blakeney , St Peter Mancroft and the cathedral at Norwich , which he produced for the local shops . |
| 13 | The book was never written and his only publications were two pamphlets , A Guide to the Electors of Great Britain , upon the Accession of a new King ( 1820 ) and Letters of Lord John Russell , upon the original formation of the House of Commons ( 1826 ) in which he declared for a thorough reform of the close boroughs he had always represented . |
| 14 | Little is known of Francis Wright 's early years , but in 1830 , on the retirement of his father , he became the senior partner in Butterley , which he dominated for the next forty-three years . |
| 15 | But last Thursday he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene . |
| 16 | Last Thursday , however , he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre-left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene . |
| 17 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |
| 18 | When Ken thereupon resigned , however , William appealed to him to remain , which he did for a further year . |
| 19 | Lord Newport asked Richard to teach in his place , which he did for a few months . |