Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another . |
| 2 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 3 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 4 | But should go to another factory and er hold your own in the factory you could expect to get the full money , which I did at twenty one . |
| 5 | Now unless anybody 's got a burning desire to pursue the question which I posed at two o'clock , and from my point of view I think we tested it to destruction . |
| 6 | A woman with an ‘ afflicted ’ husband told the 1888 Select Committee on Sweating that she ‘ finished ’ four pairs of trousers a day , for which she made at most 1/2d , that her wages were 4d per day less than four years previously , and that after paying her rent , she had 5/ a week on which to keep her three children , her husband and herself . |
| 7 | ‘ Ingested that from which she died at that meal ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Which she received at twenty to nine , when she was dressing for her wedding ? ’ |
| 9 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 10 | A decent interval elapsed , during which we looked at each other rather anxiously . |
| 11 | Weiner says that in the Eighties we 've gone past the ‘ grazing ’ stage , in which we picked at this and that all day long , to ‘ refuelling ’ : the pit-stop in which we shovel food in our mouths as fast as we can . |
| 12 | I filled a syringe with a " mixed macterin " which we used at that time against the secondary invaders of distemper . |
| 13 | And there was the er question which we posed at two o'clock , which was your reaction , reflections on |
| 14 | Perhaps the last occasion on which they figured at all prominently was at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia in 1856 . |
| 15 | She remembered how the table around which they sat at High Tea , was covered with a sheet of speckled grey lino which had a strange stickiness . |
| 16 | A working compromise was reached only after Barbarossa agreed to hold the Pope 's bridle and stirrup at a formal meeting ; an act of ritual homage which he had at first refused . |
| 17 | Instead the address which he had at last been persuaded to give was in a short and narrow street off the Edgware Road , an enclave of cheap , unsmart cafés chiefly Goan and Greek . |
| 18 | And yet the mundane circumference beyond which he stepped at such times was also necessary to him : it was the circle in which he could stand and be safe . |
| 19 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 20 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 21 | Mr Bland said that the cost of the borrowings was much lower than the cost of the group 's equity , which he estimated at 20 per cent per annum . |
| 22 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 23 | Hopkinson was educated at St Edward 's , Oxford , which he left at 16 for an apprenticeship in his uncle 's engineering firm at Manchester , where he joined the Territorial Army . |
| 24 | He was educated at Babbacombe School , Torquay , which he left at fourteen to join the office of George Bridgeman , an architect in Torquay , to whom he returned after being apprenticed to a quantity surveyor in London . |
| 25 | With the benefit of a later viewpoint , aided not least by the opportunity to reflect on Bolinger 's own work , we would suggest that , in most cases , other answers are more appropriate than the ones which he offered at that time ( nevertheless , we return to this article more than once in the chapters which follow ) . |
| 26 | Unable to find work after leaving the army , which he joined at 16 , he has travelled as far as Holland in search of a job — but to no avail . |
| 27 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
| 28 | He was warned of at least 15 contacts in the Cranfield overhead by the Luton Approach controller and instructed to contact Cranfield by radio which he did at 1227:05 hrs , stating his altitude as 2000 feet . |
| 29 | The evening was warm and calm , but the side-streets through which he wandered at random were almost deserted . |
| 30 | In the Champion Hurdle , which he won at 50-1 and in the Sandeman Hurdle at Liverpool , where at 10-1 he gave weight and a beating to some of the best hurdlers in training , Beech Road established himself as an outstanding champion , and although he did not win the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle on Saturday , he confirmed his position at the top of the tree . |