Example sentences of "which i [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 After supper the ladies sung Erse songs , to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera , delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand . ’
2 My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern .
3 On point d ) of this paper , which I regard as a separate issue , I have already made the point at Research Management that Library staff are receiving many more non-Library enquiries now , referred from Exhibition Hall staff , from Shop staff , and from new Support staff on the switchboard .
4 So much for the jerk-off theories put forward by the police , in which I figure as an adulterous version of George Joseph Smith — not the brides in the bath but the wittol in the water .
5 It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years .
6 The outcome of this process , which I indicated as a possible development in the first edition of this book , is the pre-eminence in the present-day labour movement of social democratic parties ; that is to say , of parties which are themselves coalitions of diverse groups and intellectual tendencies , rather than centralized , monolithic organizations held together by strict discipline and an authoritatively interpreted ideology .
7 I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time .
8 I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump .
9 All my possessions began to smell of smoke ; even my better clothes which I kept in a closed cupboard under the bunk .
10 She certainly lived up to her name , and was the inspiration for the poem " Revenue Cutter " which I wrote after a particular stormy passage in the North of Scotland .
11 There were also , in more recent years , the series — like " At Home " , in which I talked to a different subject each week in his or her domestic setting .
12 Bed after regular bed shows a dark , laminated lower portion which I identify as an algal mat type deposit that has been ripped up and incorporated , in a graded fashion , in " cleaner " , paler sediment from offshore .
13 I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 .
14 I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square .
15 I had them to dinner at my principal residence , having prepared a tagine of lamb with apricots , which I teased with a husky Australian Shiraz from the Mudgee River .
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