Example sentences of "which he [verb] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his appointment , the wages were increased from £90,000 a year — which he thought was a poor salary — to £220,000 a year . |
| 2 | He asked Mr Jotter who had picked the vowels and why they 'd chosen the letter ‘ u ’ instead of ‘ s ’ which he thought was a nicer shape . |
| 3 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 4 | His memories of Heather , bolstered by his possession of her photographs , had given him courage and hope , emotions to which he had been a stranger for more years than he cared to remember . |
| 5 | Although in theory Gow disapproved of all art later than 1500 except for Rembrandt , Velázquez , and , with some reservations , Rubens , he left to the Fitzwilliam Museum , of which he had been a syndic from 1934 to 1957 , twenty-four works by Degas and six each by Rodin and Forain . |
| 6 | A selection of such writings appeared posthumously as Essays in Jewish History ( 1934 ) under the auspices of the Jewish Historical Society of England , of which he had been a principal founder . |
| 7 | When he had gone the Feldwebel imitated his accent which he said was a thick Austrian one which he could hardly understand . |
| 8 | Richard Baxter was further saddened by the loss of thousands of precious books in the fire , which he believed was a great loss to ‘ piety and learning ’ . |
| 9 | When I used to ask him where he was going he would tell me ‘ To Phucke ’ , which he claimed was a small town to the north of Inverness . |