Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another of his innovations was inviting students to Sunday lunch , after which they would join the family in the garden and give ‘ much valuable help ’ . |
| 2 | After which they would inveigh against them as decadent while ordering more of the same for their next well-attended private screenings . |
| 3 | There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get . |
| 4 | Most of the weekend exercises started off with a para drop on to a drop zone somewhere in the British Isles , after which we would spend two days marching with large packs , practising attacks and fieldcraft . |
| 5 | His room overlooked our house , and he could watch the comings and goings — we were having some turf laid at the time in which he was taking a great interest — and I used to drive round there every evening at half past five and bring him home for a meal , after which we would chat or watch television . |
| 6 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 7 | The treaty was scheduled to be signed in February 1992 , after which it would require ratification by the 12 national parliaments . |
| 8 | After which he would announce , ‘ Just going next door to ring up my Popsie ! ’ , and into the Signals Office he would disappear to ring up his fiancée , a Wren Officer stationed at Portsmouth . |
| 9 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 10 | Julie decided to top up her Californian suntan until Kitty Summerville called lunch , after which she would take a casual stroll to another of her favourite haunts as a child , the old summer house on the river bank . |
| 11 | I decided to make one last attempt after which I would start looking for a place from where I could obtain a map of the city . |
| 12 | I grew a little apprehensive when she informed me that I would see witches and some ugly things , after which I would see my grandfather and other long-dead relatives . |
| 13 | There are far fewer areas in the simulated map about which one would risk a definitive statement than in the map from the unsimulated process . |
| 14 | You are bound to have many questions you would like to ask , as well as certain anxieties about which you would like your mind set at rest . |
| 15 | Molly felt similarly safe , brought to this strange place about which she would have clearly so much to learn . |
| 16 | It was , I felt sure , something about which she would have something to say . |
| 17 | Ahead lay more normal days , during which they would experience more downs in proportion to ups and consequently discover the fickleness of supporters whose approval is conditional on success . |
| 18 | ‘ My pupils accompanied me here for a fortnight 's holiday during which they would acquire the art of fish cookery . ’ |
| 19 | A new period was about to begin during which they would regain some of their earlier superiority over the base , and bend their efforts even more towards the offensive . |
| 20 | Although the ceremony itself was a simple one — a private exchange of shared intentions in which the most important formal element was the document which laid down precisely who got what in the case of divorce — it was nevertheless going to be used by both sets of parents as an excuse to throw a party , during which they would vie with each other in largesse , showing off their wealth as well as arranging useful introductions for their unmarried children . |
| 21 | To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed . |
| 22 | But his labours were interrupted by frequent migraines , which sometimes lasted as long as three days , during which he would lie in darkness on the floor of his room , eat nothing , and demand silence from the rest of us . |
| 23 | Human beings chose the imagery through which they would capture their understanding of God . |
| 24 | The legal basis was being created for workers to set up their own professional , cultural and leisure-time organizations through which they would become integrated with the rest of society . |
| 25 | Here he learned from one of the officers captured in the High Bridge action and since released that Prince Charles was preparing to block the passage of the royal army at the Corrieyairack Pass , through which it would have to pass to reach Fort Augustus . |
| 26 | She had thought of that first male kiss as opening a door inside her , through which she would step towards adulthood , real sex . |
| 27 | We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all . |
| 28 | Torturers kept making up new arbitrary rules , for which they would punish disobedience . |
| 29 | Fourth , many participants frankly admitted that they had very low expectations at the outset : specifically that the course was simply designed to punish them , in return for which they would give the minimum amount of attention possible . |
| 30 | Not only would their number have to be increased but they would also need to undergo years of specialized training for which they would expect a commensurate reward . |