Example sentences of "which [pers pn] had [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ An eternity of time passed during which I had a blazing row with a nosy seagull which kept hovering over me . |
| 4 | Er then I went on to Buffalo and Niagara falls and crossed over to Canada which I had a few friends there . |
| 5 | He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters . |
| 6 | His adventures concluded he retires to Dulwich saying that he will never regret those two years , with their ‘ scenes of which I had no previous conception ’ leading to ‘ the enlargement of my mind ’ , PP passim . |
| 7 | If you are moving from a place other than a shared home for which you had no personal responsibility , you will need to cancel the milk and newspapers for ever , and organise new deliveries at your new address . |
| 8 | Even if no one is around who can confirm a particular incident , if you are able to come up with details of surroundings and personalities of which you had no conscious memory , and if these are later proved to have been accurate , there is no real reason to suppose that a significant event was simply a figment of an over-active imagination . |
| 9 | The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 10 | Margaret Thatcher and the kind of neutral policy analysis the tank produced simply do not mix : ‘ Of its very existence it sort of encapsulated a view about government for which she had no great sympathy . |
| 11 | Lady Kitty 's wardrobes were crammed with clothes , and she would give those for which she had no further use to someone with little money — in exchange for some of their coupons , of course . |
| 12 | At the most profound , over which we had no conscious control , we were ideally suited and at peace . |
| 13 | The world communist movement , meanwhile , had virtually collapsed as an organised force , and individual parties had lost ground in nearly all the countries in which they had a legal existence ( some had simply disappeared ) . |
| 14 | Given that the majority was aligned on grounds which had nothing to do with policy , it was difficult for strangers to vote so publicly and at the same time to hold aloof from an alignment in which they had no personal interest , and which might even have damaged their commercial interests . |
| 15 | However , while the advisory team 's views had the undoubted consequence of making many Leeds primary classrooms seem busier and more attractive , the beneficial consequences for children 's learning were less clear ; and for some teachers , the claim of ‘ flexibility ’ had exactly the opposite effect , strait-jacketing them into practices to which they had no real commitment and which they had difficulty in managing . |
| 16 | Branson 's readiness to delegate responsibility and encourage people in tasks for which they had no particular qualification had been important in determining the mood of the company . |
| 17 | The report was bitterly criticised by the British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine which accused the authors of ‘ many inaccuracies ’ in describing treatments of which they had no first-hand experience . |
| 18 | He was educated at Marlborough College , to which he had a lifelong devotion , and at Balliol College , Oxford , where he captained both the cricket and hockey XIs and where he obtained a first class in classical honour moderations ( 1924 ) and second classes in mathematical moderations ( 1924 ) and literae humaniores ( 1926 ) . |
| 19 | He had , however , a natural ability with a penny-whistle , of which he had a great number , one of which he always carried in his pocket . |
| 20 | He was habited youthfully , in black jacket and trousers , over which he had a dripping cape . |
| 21 | McCallen has been having problems with the RVF Honda for which he had a new engine during final practice and as a result , his times have not been up to scratch . |
| 22 | There was , however , always one matter for which he had a personal responsibility which he could share with no one else . |
| 23 | ‘ . Thus if Scargill was satisfied that ( a ) Branch members would accede to a call for a strike by their local officials , ( b ) that those officials would call a strike , and ( c ) that the National Executive ( over which he had a strong influence ) would sanction such strikes , then he could achieve the equivalent of a national strike without submitting it to the membership at large for their endorsement . |
| 24 | For years he was a member of the Saturday sub editorial staff processing the comprehensive sports copy flowing in from all parts of the world for Ireland Saturday Night , a newspaper for which he had a deep affection . |
| 25 | Within days of moving up he assumed a Farmer Giles accent , extra-shapeless trousers ( nothing is so sexless as an Englishman 's trousers ) , broken boots ( ‘ They do n't just let water in , they suck it in , ’ he said proudly ) , and most important , a bucket hat , of which he had a whole series . |
| 26 | With great patience and no doubt a certain amount of pride , for here he was expert , he minutely described the cultivation of pineapples , melons and oranges in stoves and greenhouses , cucumbers on hot beds and of early fruits , wall-forced , for which he had a special reputation . |
| 27 | The short judgments proceed on the simple ground that the sheriff was not entitled to retain sums which he had no legal right to demand , but the sums were demanded in return for the rendering of a service , namely the issuing of warrants , so the case is capable of being rationalised on the basis that they were exacted colore officii , a concept which emerged more clearly in later cases . |
| 28 | As David Carlton has written , this plan ‘ represented a willingness to buy off a bully with territory to which he had no legitimate claim . ’ |
| 29 | Lord Brougham held that a debtor should also still be imprisoned if he refused to pay what he owed when he could do so by executing a deed , or if he was culpably extravagant or reckless in contracting debts which he had no reasonable expectation of being able to pay . |
| 30 | So when he said murder , even that was not sure , but it was going to be a relief to be investigating a crime in which he had no personal connection and of which he could not be suspected . |