Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was ten , my Dad bought me a guitar for Christmas , which I 'd asked for , but at the same time he enrolled me at the local golf club ! |
| 2 | I lost a sodden pair of boots and socks , and William 's day bag , which I 'd borrowed for a rucksack . |
| 3 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 4 | And that 's called erm er a special word which I 've forgotten for the moment . |
| 5 | Mr Devaux said : ‘ I have had 22 happy years at the bar but I 'm pleased to be appointed particularly in the area in which I 've practised for 14 years now . ’ |
| 6 | I 've got a pewter-coloured Strat Plus which I 've had for two years now . |
| 7 | It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve . |
| 8 | I took stock of my fur-lined leather jacket which I had prized for years , and I did n't see any problem . |
| 9 | ‘ Indeed , writing the novel ( Nice Work ) was for me a process of discovery — of hitherto unknown aspects of the city in which I had lived for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 10 | It was still my task to fight for the present , although that task was becoming less appropriate daily , and to maintain the status quo which I had made for myself , and which was the only place where I belonged . |
| 11 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 12 | I stared out of the window at this country about which I had wondered for so long . |
| 13 | As the DGM was later to point out ‘ The 45 per cent included the revenue which I had negotiated for transfer to other districts which had been dependent on Horton and Banstead . |
| 14 | ‘ The only real pre-requisite for a trade within the forces police is a GSCE grade C or better in English and a special forces driver 's licence which I had to qualify for at RAF St Athan . |
| 15 | It is difficult to define this atmosphere which I find exists for me in many of our traditional buildings and churches . |
| 16 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 17 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 18 | The alternative to Regan 's typically liberationist view of animals , which I have argued for in this book and summed up in the concluding section of Chapter 6 , is that animals are primitive creatures . |
| 19 | I found Springsteen sitting on the draining-board gazing out of the kitchen window , which I have to open for him so he can come and go as he likes . |
| 20 | FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing . |
| 21 | I have a grey trilby which I have had for many years . |
| 22 | I made his socks on my Singer KE2400 single bed machine which I have had for years . |
| 23 | Well it 's very , they are talking about er other issues up to they are talking about the workforce and of the erm the the report from the and er it seems that they do n't really want much to programme forward which I have put for next year very structural maintenance of the and I what the services are actually doing , they have lost council probably say that they are out of control . |
| 24 | So do all the lemon recipes which I have chosen for this article . |
| 25 | Nevertheless a sheriff officer has the right to come to our home , take possession of items which I have paid for and take me to court . |
| 26 | Because I , I 've received a letter erm from a parishioner , if I can find it , er which I have photocopied for everyone , which I think was a direct response to the fact that there was something in the magazine and perhaps a direct response to other meetings and to a general feeling as well . |
| 27 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |
| 28 | Then return refreshed with added zest and sparkle to participate in the particular circumstances which you have prepared for and chosen . |
| 29 | Bibliography , which cites the principal sources on which you have drawn for your research , in alphabetical order of authors ' surnames . |
| 30 | If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt . |