Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 55 ) I found a bottle with which I made numerous marks on the ground surrounding our tents and a few yards into the jungle , as far as I dared venture . |
| 2 | After O-levels there was still a month of term to go , a month in which I had ample time to devote myself to my obsession . |
| 3 | In each case the accuracy rate concerning events of which I had first-hand knowledge was about 50% ; half the information correct , half wrong . |
| 4 | Given that the conductor is Rudolf Barshai , this was a disc of which I had high expectations , and the musicians of the Vancouver SO play the score with an admirable combination of restraint and accuracy which provides , in the end , a rather more affecting experience than some of the more histrionic versions one could name . |
| 5 | How could I make proposals on social security without mentioning National Insurance for which I had ministerial responsibility ? |
| 6 | I folded it up and put it away in a small carved wooden box in which I kept other trinkets and treasures of no significance to anyone except myself . |
| 7 | As for the sounds themselves , there are many here which I considered serious omissions from the GR-50 . |
| 8 | They sent Respighi 's music , Pines of the Appian Way , marching through my head , to which I gave bass accompaniment with my hat . |
| 9 | I wanted to be a writer ( hence the course ) but was also toying with the idea of the group , which I pursued full time after finishing . |
| 10 | But while Manuela was a mirror in which I glimpsed troubling facets of my own personality , hers presented no problems . |
| 11 | But the kind of criticism which I termed external critique is much less conditioned by the object under review and its conventional disciplinary home . |
| 12 | Her duty — a duty in which she took consummate pride — was to ensure the smooth running of The Tamarisks . |
| 13 | Then there had been another science during which she took periodical gulps of her tea and the sleeping baby stirred and gave small pig-like grunts . |
| 14 | His decision was prompted by Mrs Thatcher 's vehemently expressed opposition to proposals for monetary union at a recent European Community summit in Rome and a strident populist performance in Parliament in which she displayed considerable hostility to the idea of European integration . |
| 15 | There was always schoolteaching , of course , but that would entail the tiresome business of acquiring a Postgraduate Certificate of Education , or else working in the independent sector , to which she had ideological objections . |
| 16 | After her husband 's death in 1947 she co-founded the Albert Howard Foundation , which in 1953 merged with the Soil Association , of which she became honorary life vice-president . |
| 17 | Then I said I was here with the family and she announced she was having a party for the local English , ‘ a rather disgusting barbecue ’ which she knew young people liked , and she supposed we 'd better come along . |
| 18 | We were showing a Jessie Matthews film called Evergreen , one of her first films , in which she wore long silk stockings . |
| 19 | Kollwitz ‘ diary consisted of ten books in which she wrote detailed accounts of her artistic practice and other experiences . |
| 20 | Cruzan , 33 , had been in an irreversible coma since a 1983 car accident in which she suffered severe brain damage . |
| 21 | Ms Fahey departed from her employment in the Decca Records press office in order to become a co-founder of the seminal trio , Bananarama , with which she enjoyed multiple success ‘ singer ’ lieder such as ‘ Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye ’ and ‘ Robert De Niro 's Waiting ’ . |
| 22 | For ten years , from the time she arrived in France — after a journey in which she showed considerable enthusiasm for the new life to which she was going , and very little sign of regret about leaving her country , let alone her ‘ dearest mother ’ ( in contrast to Mary of Guise 's grief ) — until her marriage , she was the fêted darling of the French court . |
| 23 | The former result supports similar findings by other investigators ( Oscar-Berman , Goodglass and Cherlow , 1973 ; Turvey , 1973 ; McKeever and Suberi , 1974 ; Ward and Ross , 1977 ) while the latter finding is consistent with the results of another experiment by Cohen in which she used different cues and a different task ( Cohen , 1975b ) . |
| 24 | After all the years in which we pressed British Rail to open the station and the bus company to allow buses to come down into Portlethen village , when the station was reopened , the bus companies suddenly decided that buses would come down off the main road and start a service to compete with British Rail . |
| 25 | It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath . |
| 26 | Which we made good margins on . |
| 27 | The only occasions on which we got fleeting moments of commitment were ones where I or my British colleagues were present and involved . |
| 28 | Yes , in poetry I felt I could stand at least as his equal , and indeed what started off that day as a sort of master-pupil relationship soon became a strange kind of poetic collaboration , in which we played equal parts . |
| 29 | Although we were very happy with much of this document , there were a few sections about which we had reservations , and on which we submitted detailed comments . |
| 30 | The central drives are those to which we gave considerable prominence at the start of this book , and are those associated with survival and identity , as well as with the preservation and expansion of family , kin and blood relations . |