Example sentences of "[prep] which i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I spent almost all of them on a visit to a barber and on a meal , after which I felt my humanity returning . |
| 3 | Ron then spoke about debt management and Bank deposits , after which I took the platform to talk about investment and pensions . |
| 4 | My method throughout was to begin faintly , after which I progressed to more definite drawing in a suitable colour or tone . |
| 5 | The urgency of nausea brings me to Siobhan 's house without difficulty and , once there , I crumble to my knees and vomit into the toilet , after which I fall headlong into bed and sleep for three or four |
| 6 | I only kept the machine for a month and then sold it ( I often wonder how the lady buyer fared ) , after which I bought a Knitmaster 3500 . |
| 7 | The year after I joined , I attended the party and drank several pints of a mixture of lager and gin , after which I lost consciousness in the changing rooms ; I woke up to find myself being hit , kicked and pushed down the stairs . |
| 8 | Then she helped me put on my white satin dress , after which I pulled on my shoes . |
| 9 | In cases about which I know only that his performance is better than mine , letting his advice tilt the balance in favour of his solution will sometimes , depending on my rate of mistakes and the formula used , improve my performance . |
| 10 | I stared out of the window at this country about which I had wondered for so long . |
| 11 | The triple alliance which I originally sought to conclude after the peace of Frankfurt and about which I had already sounded Vienna and St. Petersburg in September 1870 , was an alliance of the three Emperors with the further idea of bringing into it monarchical Italy . |
| 12 | The Triple Alliance , which I first tried to arrange after the Franco-Prussian War , and about which I had already approached Austria and Russia in 1870 , was an alliance of three Emperors , with the further idea of including the King of Italy . |
| 13 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 14 | A recent addition to the Cichlid world is the albino form of our old favourite the Oscar Astronotus ocellatus , about which I receive many queries , mostly asking whether it has special requirements . |
| 15 | Like my contemporaries I first attended an elementary school , about which I remember only three things . |
| 16 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 17 | But lastly I 'd like to come to the word community , about which I feel so strongly . |
| 18 | The first , about which I have mainly been talking so far , is the generality , or potential for generality , of things in the world . |
| 19 | There are certain topics about which I have nothing to say , and they covered almost every one of them that night . |
| 20 | And then there are all the seaside towns and the dockyard towns , about which I have said nothing . |
| 21 | This charity does magnificent work for children , caring for over 11,000 of them each year ; today they run 200 projects , about which I have written in previous diaries . |
| 22 | Many are English , about which I have no objection , but it would be nice if more Scottish pubs had at least one tap for an indigenous product . |
| 23 | Sums over histories also played an important psychological role in the development of physics since they led Feynman to propose his diagrammatic ideas about which I spoke so warmly at the start of this chapter . |
| 24 | My interest at the time was in describing the close bonds of friendship women often from , an intimacy rarely found amongst men and about which I spoke on Women 's Hour . |
| 25 | He replied , in pan , ‘ The questions and problems which you indicate are exactly of a nature about which I warned you . |
| 26 | Might I ask the right hon. Gentleman a question about which I gave notice to his office earlier this morning ? |
| 27 | The other recollection was a speech by Hanif Kureishi , the film-maker , about which I recall only how much I disliked it . |
| 28 | They played in here and slagged the place off which I thought was a bit pathetic but I do n't pretend that I like all their ideas . |
| 29 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 30 | An argument of 45 minutes ensued , during which I became distraught . |