Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the survey did not ask them if they sold the products about which they said they had received insufficient training . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 5 | He replied , in pan , ‘ The questions and problems which you indicate are exactly of a nature about which I warned you . |
| 6 | Shortly afterwards PW held a meeting with the BCCI directors during which it gave them a comprehensive account of the frauds and malpractices . |
| 7 | You came to Kinghorn and the Queen graciously granted you an audience during which you disturbed her . |
| 8 | After two hours of conversation , during which he questioned me closely concerning Ouspensky , he apologized that his wife ( he used a different word ) was not present . |
| 9 | Lewis organized ‘ Beer and Beowulf ’ evenings for his pupils , during which he taught them to chant mnemonics to master the processes of sound-change : |
| 10 | And so here this rural craft er thing which I wrote for which you asked me which is arriving from the last minutes , is I 'll read it out to you . |
| 11 | Bob was soon back with her punch for which she thanked him gratefully . |
| 12 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |
| 13 | He soon had it back with Granny 's belongings intact , and I could hardly believe my ears and eyes when I heard her thank him and allow him to lift her back onto the driver 's seat , in gratitude for which she kissed him on the cheek . |
| 14 | Jean then set about teaching her the finest French ‘ Par quoi ele mout chier le tint ’ ( ‘ for which she held him very dear ’ ) . |
| 15 | He is quite brazenly staging a public spectacle — a spectacle for which he knew he would either have been stigmatised as an upstart and a blasphemer , or acknowledged as precisely what he claimed to be . |
| 16 | He solved the problem of how to eradicate this grass by commandeering a group of my school friends and myself with instructions to pick as many bundles of thirty of these grasses as we could , for which he paid us three-pence each . |
| 17 | Let him thus lose his eyes which gave him sight of the maiden 's beauty for which he coveted her . |
| 18 | They demanded an even more radical approach to delinquency that would tackle not the individual offender but the wider deprivation and social injustice of which they considered him the product . |
| 19 | Neither my sister nor I can remember exactly what we had for dinner , but we chose not merely a good cheese but a claret of which we hoped he would approve . |
| 20 | Last week Mr McTear , who was 48 , began giving evidence in the case the end of which he knew he would never see . |
| 21 | The president of the Wolverhampton chamber of commerce delivered precisely the same speech as the one of which he sent me a copy beforehand and I have it here . |
| 22 | ‘ The action is an action for money had and received ; and it is brought upon this ground ; namely , that the money was paid to the defendant without any consideration ; the duty , for which , and in respect of which he received it , not having been imposed by lawful or sufficient authority to warrant the same . |
| 23 | ‘ The action is an action for money had and received ; and it is brought upon this ground ; namely , that the money was paid to the defendant without any consideration ; the duty , for which , and in respect of which he received it , not having been imposed by lawful or sufficient authority to warrant the same . |
| 24 | Then , both quickly and suddenly , he turned to the Reverend-who was now holding before him a photograph , of which he allowed us only the briefest glimpse . |
| 25 | ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . ) |
| 26 | There was no sign of her raft , the line of which she realised she had cut . |
| 27 | Her father had expected excessively high standards of her as a child — better deportment , better table manners and better school reports — all of which she felt she could never attain . |
| 28 | He nodded , looked as though he was going to say something else , but then thought better of it , and headed off upstairs , leaving Alyssia clutching a confusing array of emotions , none of which she felt she could deal with . |
| 29 | All these advances have been real , even when dogged by the ills of which I told you . |
| 30 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the excellent report of Lancaster health authority , a copy of which I sent him , showing the immense progress that it has made during the past year — all within its budget ? |