Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I poured him a glass of the special malt which I kept for the rare occasions of celebration or consolation in my life . |
2 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
3 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
4 | In other words , sticking to those sectors that we know and understand and which we chose for the nineties because we believe they had good growth prospects . |
5 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
6 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
7 | In August 1971 , the same year in which he married for the second time , Canetti 's brother , Georg , was dying . |
8 | His visit , during which he apologised for the French role in the Rainbow Warrior affair , marked a considerable improvement in bilateral relations [ see p. 38153 ; but see also p. 38345 for New Zealand condemnation of the honouring of the French agent involved in the Rainbow Warrior affair ] . |
9 | He recalled Blaney 's pallid and innocuous watercolours of the better-known beauty spots of Norfolk : Blakeney , St Peter Mancroft and the cathedral at Norwich , which he produced for the local shops . |
10 | Little is known of Francis Wright 's early years , but in 1830 , on the retirement of his father , he became the senior partner in Butterley , which he dominated for the next forty-three years . |
11 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |