Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had twenty-four kronor of Swedish money , which I thought a handsome sum , but it proved sufficient to buy only one hopelessly modest open sandwich , like the bottom half of a hamburger bun with a menopausal piece of lettuce and eight marble-sized meatballs on top . |
| 2 | Another gift that was well received was a book of poetry for which I made a pressed flower bookmark . |
| 3 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 4 | I am saying Mr Major , as Prime Minister , if someone in my position is saying I believe , I believe , there is the best opportunity here for lasting peace , by which I mean a total cessation of violence , the least I expect is that you should listen to what I have to say . |
| 5 | Everyone , I 'm sure , has a ‘ little black dress ’ type of pattern , by which I mean a perennial favourite that gets made up in different yarns and colours over the years for various celebrations , parties and so on . |
| 6 | It seemed that they were either capitalist or social democrats which I mean a social democrat by any other na a Tory by any other name 's just the same . |
| 7 | In the Lyttelton , it 's such a thrill to see Alan Bennett blossom in another line of work , by which I mean a full-length piece like The Madness of George III . |
| 8 | I was lending a hand in the store of one of my compatriots ; for which I received a miserly stipend and a corner of a room in the warehouse already occupied by two young Chinese . |
| 9 | He took all my clothes , my underpants , my toothbrush and razor , in return for which I received a clean set of fatigues , underwear and a wash kit . |
| 10 | Throughout the following days of my work experience the owner and I had some stimulating conversations , from which I learnt a vast amount of information about music , his job and the popular music industry . |
| 11 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 12 | ‘ It was only much later , when it was too late to change anything , that I glimpsed the possibility that this may have been one small way in which I had a slight advantage over Gittel . |
| 13 | ‘ An eternity of time passed during which I had a blazing row with a nosy seagull which kept hovering over me . |
| 14 | Er then I went on to Buffalo and Niagara falls and crossed over to Canada which I had a few friends there . |
| 15 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 16 | I wish to add a personal word on a subject related to recent events , in which I played a personal role . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman referred to another issue in which I take a good deal of interest — women and work . |
| 18 | These documents appear to be expanding in length daily , but the principal provisions tend to remain constant , and it is because of this that I have felt able to expound a series of amendments which I believe a commercial conveyancer should have in mind in considering the draft documentation . |
| 19 | Which I found a little bit surprising . |
| 20 | I paid 100 pesos for them to tidy her up and put her in a 900 peso coffin on which I paid a 200 peso deposit . |
| 21 | It was dick-work , routing out pests , for which I paid a fair price . |
| 22 | Apart from the considerations which I mentioned a few moments ago , it would indeed . |
| 23 | The lady I hoped to marry was Miss Marjorie Alice Barrett , who was a teacher in the National school of St Luke 's , Maidenhead , which I had attended when the family moved up from Somerset , and from which I gained a free place to the local county school . |
| 24 | Her most ingenious moment on Whose Line Is It Anyway ? was one the public never saw : ‘ We once did the nativity play in which I portrayed a paranoid shepherd convinced I was n't following a star , it was following me . ’ |
| 25 | Lot fifty eight collection of record pads and bits and pieces for which I have a hundred pounds offered , and ten , one twenty , one thirty , any more at one thirty , forty , one fifty , one sixty , one seventy one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty two forty two forty on the left at the back , any more at two forty , two sixty , two eighty two eighty three hundred three twenty three twenty on the left near the back now , at three twenty , are you , it 's your bid , sir , at three twenty pounds , any more at three twenty and I 'll sell at three hundred and twenty pounds . |
| 26 | ‘ I believe , ’ he said , ‘ that I can obtain you a position as reader in a publishing house in which I have a certain interest . |
| 27 | I mainly use the package with my Brother 950i , to which I have a connecting cable , but I ca n't wait for Soft Byte to produce one for the Pfaff 6000 so that I can view the patterns on screen before knitting them . |
| 28 | ’ … in the meantime I would just like to explain the untimely interruption which you heard a few minutes ago . |
| 29 | We were achieving considerable success right up to the moment of the late King 's sudden and unfortunate death in which you show a great deal of interest . ’ |
| 30 | You cook the moules as for marinière : moules marinières is prepared by scrubbing the mussels , rejecting any that do not close when knocked against the sink , whilst allowing the finely chopped onion and garlic to thoroughly soften in the wine in a large pan for which you have a close-fitting lid . |