Example sentences of "which i [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | After supper the ladies sung Erse songs , to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera , delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand . ’ |
2 | Perhaps these contradictory interpretations illustrate the dangers , to which I alluded in the earlier discussion , of assuming an automatic association between classicism and positivism and specific political ideologies . |
3 | This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out . |
4 | My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern . |
5 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
6 | It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years . |
7 | The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November . |
8 | As they went downstairs , Joanna said , ‘ I 've got one dress which I wore to the veterinary congress banquet . |
9 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
10 | The outcome of this process , which I indicated as a possible development in the first edition of this book , is the pre-eminence in the present-day labour movement of social democratic parties ; that is to say , of parties which are themselves coalitions of diverse groups and intellectual tendencies , rather than centralized , monolithic organizations held together by strict discipline and an authoritatively interpreted ideology . |
11 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
12 | ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character . |
13 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
14 | I poured him a glass of the special malt which I kept for the rare occasions of celebration or consolation in my life . |
15 | All my possessions began to smell of smoke ; even my better clothes which I kept in a closed cupboard under the bunk . |
16 | She certainly lived up to her name , and was the inspiration for the poem " Revenue Cutter " which I wrote after a particular stormy passage in the North of Scotland . |
17 | He is , however , right about the basic seriousness of the problem , which I discussed with the Indonesian Foreign Minister — as , perhaps , the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) has done . |
18 | The entire New Jersey garage movement which I documented in a 1988 issue of THE FACE was disco . |
19 | A coherent school policy on Standard English can be based on the different views of the main aims of English teaching which I listed in the previous chapter. : |
20 | There were also , in more recent years , the series — like " At Home " , in which I talked to a different subject each week in his or her domestic setting . |
21 | except for the last one which I missed off the last time . |
22 | I 've got the first issue which I bought at the away match at the Arse earlier on . |
23 | I had erm an eight ba er eight band wireless which I bought for a hundred and twenty quid when I was working . |
24 | The relevance of the lengthy preliminary exposition which I devoted to the modern Freudian theory of society should now begin to become apparent . |
25 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
26 | In terms of Julia Kristeva 's model , which I introduced in the last chapter , this would be a first stage , liberal equal-rights-and-opportunities response . |
27 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |
28 | I had them to dinner at my principal residence , having prepared a tagine of lamb with apricots , which I teased with a husky Australian Shiraz from the Mudgee River . |