Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against the woman 's express wishes , he lit a piece of paper and went into her bedroom anyway , and reported a ‘ bedstead of wood with heath [ heather ] upon it by way of a bed ; at the foot of which I saw some sort of blankets of covering rolled in a heap ’ . |
| 2 | To make the top rectangular picture , I used a card mount in palest pink , behind which I stretched some cream silk . |
| 3 | For the central , gold oval design , I used a dusty pink satin backing , on to which I arranged some cow parsley leaves , gypsophila , small ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ red roses , some ‘ Princess ’ pink potentillas and astrantia . |
| 4 | The top right-hand corner was decorated with small rose leaves interspersed with some ladies ' bedstraw , on which I arranged some geums and cow parsley centres . |
| 5 | In 1940 I had prepared an essay on Ivy 's novels , which I had some prospect of placing in Horizon . |
| 6 | One piece of research which I contemplated some years ago , but did not actually carry out , was a comparison between people who do go to the theatre and those who do not . |
| 7 | At which I uttered some condolences . |
| 8 | The card background I used for this photo frame was an extremely pale peachy pink , on which I placed some rose leaves , heuchera flowers and green spiky leaves , with ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ and ‘ Yesterday ’ roses forming the central focus . |
| 9 | It also covers the competitiveness of British industry and commerce , a point to which I referred some moments ago . |
| 10 | This done , she whipped up a piece of tape , which she tied some inches from the bottom ; then , while still holding on to the hair with one hand , her other hand shot out and pulled open a drawer from which she grabbed a pair of large scissors . |
| 11 | The process of reform upon which we embarked some time ago runs against some ingrained attitudes in public sector management , but they are beginning to change . |
| 12 | The companies of players did not perceive their plays as fixed texts , literary works which they felt some obligation to present accurately . |
| 13 | They found that there were no significant differences between the signs in the frequency with which they elicited some speed change from the driver ( in the Johansson and Rumar study there were very considerable differences in memory performance depending on the sign used ) , although the degree of this change was related to the information on the sign . |
| 14 | At the same time they had established bases in India in which they exercised some degree of local political authority , though only in the way that trading companies normally did when away from home , and with no idea of challenging the authority of the Great Moghul , the ruler of India . |
| 15 | In his account of the final stage , it is as if the unheard melody of which he had some intimation suddenly becomes audible and transposes all his experience into its terms : In my prayer I was reaching out to heaven with heartfelt longing when I became aware , in a way I can not explain , of a symphony of song , and in myself I sensed a corresponding harmony at once wholly delectable and heavenly , which persisted in my mind . |
| 16 | He did not actually handle or take possession of any documents , and is unable to substantiate the detail or authenticity of papers of which he had some sight . ’ |
| 17 | He did not actually handle or take possession of any documents , and is unable to substantiate the detail or authenticity of papers of which he had some sight . ’ |
| 18 | Coucy soon rose high in favour at court : in 1363 Edward granted him lands in north Lancashire , Cumberland and Westmorland to which he had some claim by inheritance ; two years later he married Isabella , and in 1366 the king created him Earl of Bedford with an endowment of 1,000 marks a year . |
| 19 | This was Bogart 's seventeenth film ( The Petrified Forest had been his eleventh ) and one of the first in which he gave some indication of his range . |
| 20 | Alix wore a white dress bought ready-made from a department store , her younger sister was a sort of bridesmaid in a flowered print , and her little brother wore a grey suit with short trousers and a pale-blue tie , on which he spilt some strawberry ice-cream . |