Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it included costs which ought more properly to have been included in their bill relating to the divorce proceedings , in which they were acting for the father . |
| 2 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 3 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 4 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 5 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 6 | He directed the Orchard Gallery in Derry , ( 1978–84 ) for which he was nominated for the Turner prize . |