Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ My GP prescribed an oral antibiotic which I took for five months , but it did n't do anything .
2 I personally use a .013-.056 gauge on all the acoustics and all the electrics with the exception of the Firebird , which I use for regular flatpicking in standard Spanish tuning , and that one has much lighter strings on it — an .009 set but with an .011 on the top E. ’
3 ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’
4 ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’
5 In many ways it is an abbreviated version of my earlier work Flying Model Helicopters , which I recommend for those who require a fuller appreciation of the subject .
6 However I do not recall hearing of any problem every being experienced by low-flying military hardware or cruise-level GA over Madley Earth Station which I managed for several years prior to my retirement last year , and which I believe is a much larger facility than Oakhanger .
7 And one of the differences that anorexia can become much more visible and identifiable , whereas those of us who have experienced bulimia , which I had for thirteen years , can be extremely secret and well disguised because we normally do n't change from normal body weight .
8 I have one or two such places up my sleeve which I save for difficult days but I do n't spoil it by going to them too often .
9 Also asked him for report which I needed for Statutory Review .
10 Snell bowled me a no-ball which I hit for six , then hit a four off the extra !
11 You can do this each year on a percentage basis which you set for that year on the basis of your knowledge of the church-going habits of the congregation .
12 peoples , can affect where you , which erm , which you needed for some
13 Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast .
14 This meant she could continue to level her basilisk stare ( the one which she reserves for special enemies ) at selected MPs .
15 The garden depicted with such passionate intensity is based on one at Maytham Hall , a house in Kent which she rented for many years and last visited in 1907 .
16 She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt .
17 In May 1936 , believing the emperor of Ethiopia 's cause to be a just one , she began a weekly journal , New Times and Ethiopia News , which she edited for twenty years .
18 Pest Control Anglia has passed the assessment and qualified and we are now evaluating the extent to which we apply for all other branches to be considered .
19 After a few hundred yards it crosses a road and indeed has become a road , which we followed for two miles .
20 Erm and I think that it is a very useful exercise to discover which things you know fall below that break even point and which things are therefore if you like internally subsidized or which we do for one reason or another .
21 His aim was to beat the weather and bowl them out again , which we did for 40 , thereby winning by an innings .
22 The sort of criteria which we used for paradigmatic delimitation are of no help here .
23 But the credit-worthiness requirements which they set for new customers are relatively stringent .
24 Both teachers keep on their desks , beside the National Curriculum ring binders , the registers and all the other tedious impedimenta of a teacher 's working life , a pile of books of poems , which they use for short sections of time throughout the day .
25 It is not impossible that nationalism will decline with the decline of the nation-state , without which being English or Irish or Jewish , or a combination of all these , is only one way in which people describe their identity among the many others which they use for this purpose , as occasion demands .
26 The price at which they bid for these bills determines the Treasury Bill rate .
27 Despite revolutionary zeal , or perhaps because of it , they sought immediate compensations for the miseries of daily life , and spontaneous methods of attack which they mistook for political strategy .
28 With atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected to double in the next century , plants would open the stomata through which they breathe for shorter periods reducing the transpiration of water and providing less water for cloud formation .
29 This project aims to explore what teachers implementing the programmes assume about the way children learn , how they interpret the differences among their pupils ( in the new atmosphere which emphasises ‘ attainment targets ’ ) and the ways in which they cater for those differences .
30 At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria .
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