Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In City Fur Manufacturing Co. v. Fureenbond ( 1937 K.B. ) A owned some skins which were stored for him at an independent warehouse .
2 He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon .
3 FIRST BLOOM DIANA 'S latest outing in the original dress , a favourite which was made for her in 1988 .
4 I–live in a house which was planned for there to be one , and we keep a reminder of that — a bell-board in the kitchen , used to summon the maid from there to other rooms in the house .
5 Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said :
6 That the Church in the form in which it was re-established eventually survived the Puritan onslaught was to a large extent due to the philosophical and historical basis which was provided for it with formidable learning by Richard Hooker .
7 For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house .
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