Example sentences of "something [prep] which [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves .
2 Something with which we could go to the customer and say , ‘ This is the sort of thing it is now possible to do .
3 I looked round for something with which I could knock him out after we had taken off .
4 It 's not something on which one could fault the Victorians , for instance . ’
5 A number of tradesmen in the timber , textile and tin-plate industries looked upon coffin-making and funeral furnishing as something by which they could profit , and it was not unknown for some to meet with such success that they abandoned their established trade to go into undertaking full time .
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