Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used a hot towel and left the product on for ten minutes after which time my hair felt very soft . |
| 2 | After what seemed its thirty-fifth repetition , Rowicki put down his baton , looked up and spoke to the ceiling in a low-pitched , conversational tone : ‘ Everyone can now play this correctly except Mr X ’ ( the fourth inside desk cellist ) . |
| 3 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 4 | This was the highlight of a generally flat year for Olivetti , during which saw its market share rise to 6.1% from 5.8% . |
| 5 | She spent about seven weeks during which time her mother spent a weekend with us too . |
| 6 | She lived for only seven weeks during which time her two sisters , Clare , five , and Victoria , three , bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 7 | Between 1973 and 1981 he was general manager at the Golf View Hotel in Nairn , during which time its turnover increased by 800% . |
| 8 | The compensation claim covered a period between 1919 and 1967 when Nauru was under Australian administration , during which time its phosphates were extracted and sold at below market prices . |
| 9 | Edward , his half-brother , succeeded , aged about 38 years , and he remained as King for twenty-four years , during which time his endeavours towards sainthood earned him the title of The Confessor . |
| 10 | Mozart 's final illness lasted 15 days , during which time his body swelled , he vomited intermittently and he suffered from high fever . |
| 11 | He then worked for many years as a country doctor , during which time his son Robert nearly died from smallpox inoculation performed by a ‘ surgeon of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 12 | My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress . |
| 13 | It took about a day and a half for each of them , during which time my nerve-ends were pinging like a Du-gnorian soniharp . |
| 14 | If you are heavily laden with treasure you might only manage a couple of swings of the sword before you have to rest , during which time your opponent can batter away at you ! ) |
| 15 | Above , students in Taiwan learn to produce their own community newspaper through which to voice their opinions and concerns |
| 16 | It is this manipulation of time and viewpoint which enables us to choose an appropriate frame through which to explore our dramatic situations . |
| 17 | Now that each party has formal election procedures through which to choose its Leader , the Queen in normal circumstances will not have to make a personal choice between rival candidates for Prime Minister , a choice which she had to make in 1957 and in 1963 before the Conservative Party adopted election rules . |
| 18 | As a medium through which to secure your fame and fortune , even those publications for whom discovering new talent is an important role are n't the force they were . |
| 19 | Deprived of any effective legal mechanism through which to express their discontent , the peasants expressed it instead through rural disturbances . |
| 20 | Is not the mugger a person who knows only the language of violence through which to express his desperation ? |
| 21 | The social reformers who staffed the think tanks that fed into the right wing of the Conservative Party and who advocated the restructuring of education , the dismantling of the welfare state and the restriction of local government power , needed a theme through which to proselytise their views . |
| 22 | As it happens , Baden has more than commercial prosperity for which to thank its industries . |
| 23 | The idea that England was an ‘ Empire ’ was not new : it was asserted in a letter from Cuthbert Tunstall to Henry VIII in 1517 : ‘ But the Crown of England is an Empire of hitself … : for which cause your Grace werith a close crown . ’ |
| 24 | The final possibility is to " hive up " the trade from Target to Newco , so that Newco commences trading and generates trading income out of which to fund its interest payments directly . |
| 25 | As has been recorded in this chapter , the principal anti-cancer drugs have been discovered either as a by-product of military research financed by government or by research in the pharmaceutical industry , much of which had its roots in research not primarily concerned with cancer . |
| 26 | The company was organized in approximately ten areas of business , each of which had its own board of directors and its own CEO , but all of which were wholly owned by the parent company . |
| 27 | To arrive at this viewpoint Miliband argued that society was stratified by a number of elites — social , economy ( including managers and not just owners ) , bureaucratic and political — each of which had its own basis of power . |
| 28 | This meant that , instead of being composed entirely of separate infantry , cavalry , motorized , engineering , supplies and medical units , it also contained battalions each of which had its own infantry , cavalry , motorized , etc. sections . |
| 29 | The pigeons were then split into two groups , one of which had their bills smeared with olive oil and the other with turpentine . |
| 30 | The Tarn is home to many varieties of water fowl including the curlew , the greater crested grebe and the lesser spotted sandwich-pinching duck , one specimen of which had my last tuna-fish butty while I was n't looking . |