Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also had two 1Mb SIMMS which I fitted to test the viability of Dixon 's proposed upgrade . |
| 2 | ‘ And what his idea was , in a way I suppose , was just to see the position which I had to get the horse into before he had the job with the mare ; and he wondered how the job was done with the harness I 'd got on . |
| 3 | There remained one area in which I wanted to improve the effectiveness of the Accidents Investigation Branch . |
| 4 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 5 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 6 | ‘ Victoria , you 're a sensible girl , you go first , ’ was an order she heard often and with pleasure , for whatever ordeal into which she had to lead the rest , from construing straight-faced a suggestive passage of Ovid to pushing her pony through a muddy ford , was always rewarded by authority 's approval . |
| 7 | She negotiated a fee of $1,800 a week from which she had to pay the Girls ' salaries of $45 each , netting considerably more for herself . |
| 8 | These included Candida , Heartbreak House , The Wild Duck and An Ideal Husband in which we agreed to play the dreadful Chilterns . |
| 9 | I sought to score points earlier on the cavalier way in which previous Ministers dismissed the suggestions from the then Select Committee , by which we sought to limit the rate of increase in the residential care part of the Government 's budget . |
| 10 | Another way in which we sought to understand the nature of information structure in 5 was by saying that written discourse with a low degree of reciprocity proceeds as though answering a series of ‘ ghost ’ questions . |
| 11 | " We lunched at the Inn at Port Askaig , and being unable to get a hire we secured seats in the post 's gig to cross Islay to Bridgend where was a good Hotel in which we intended to pass the night . |
| 12 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 13 | This schematic characterization , however , does not do justice either to the manner in which they attempted to keep both poles in play at once , nor to the way in which they came to concede the impossibility of the theoretical projects which they undertook . |
| 14 | In these transitional years of fluctuating opinion some continued to adopt a passive attitude towards fatalities , in which they sought to trace the hand of God , whilst others favoured active remedies for what they held to be primarily human failings . |
| 15 | The simple reason for which they failed to make the headlines and fire up the imagination of rugby pundits around the world is that they were blacks and coloureds in an apartheid-ridden South Africa . |
| 16 | Although the specific physiological mechanism which they proposed to explain the effect , based on Livingston 's ( 1967a , 1967b ) ‘ Now Print ! ’ theory has attracted little support , the basic demonstration of a surprising ability to report such memories even after considerable delays attracted a great deal of interest and has now been found in a large number of studies ( e.g. Bohannon , 1988 ; Christianson , 1989 ; Colegrove , 1899 ; McCloskey , Wible & Cohen , 1988 ; Pillemer , 1984 ; Winograd & Killinger , 1983 ; Yarmey & Bull , 1978 ) . |
| 17 | The other hand grasped a kind of huge steering wheel attached to the side of the ladle , which they turned to tip the molten metal into the small holes in the mould-boxes . |
| 18 | They were not simply transcriptions of the power of the conquerors and the coercive force with which they attempted to annihilate the existing culture and beliefs of the Indians and impose Christianity . |
| 19 | A Peasants ' Revolt — the workers of Kent and Essex — led by Walter the tiler ( who became known as Wat Tyler ) , occurred in 1381 , in which they refused to pay the Poll Tax , and they gathered together to sweep in revolt into London , Although only a lad , Richard II subdued the revolt . |
| 20 | Harry Bradshaw , who died in December at the age of 77 , was probably as well known for the manner in which he failed to win the 1949 Open as his considerable success elsewhere . |
| 21 | He scrutinized the documents as if they were a puzzle picture in which he had to spot the deliberate mistakes . |
| 22 | Which he traversed to reduce the sum of |
| 23 | A man was a shareholder in a manufacturing company for which he wished to increase the overdraft facility . |
| 24 | The newly arrived archbishop quickly manifested his reforming zeal by convening a provincial council at Reading in 1279 at which he proceeded to publish the decrees of the Council of Lyons against pluralism and nonresidence , and to condemn royal encroachments on the church 's liberties . |
| 25 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 26 | His object was to organise a defence of the village behind which he hoped to rally the army . |
| 27 | In February and June 1912 Hourcade published articles entitled respectively ‘ La Tendance de la Peinture Contemporaine ’ and ‘ Le Mouvement Pictural vers une école française de peinture ’ , in which he attempted to reassess the achievements of the preceding year . |
| 28 | A buyer , on the other hand , may well be concerned about such sub-contracting , since one of the factors on which he decided to place the contract with the seller may well have been his perception of the seller 's own quality standards and competence to carry out the contract . |
| 29 | In its place was now a dark ground , into which he started to gouge the outline of a figure . |
| 30 | Following a request for a reference in 1989 , NatWest wrote to Mr Maitland stating that the company to which he proposed to send the games was good for £5,000 credit . |