Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After supper the ladies sung Erse songs , to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera , delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand . ’ |
| 2 | Like I said , I do quite a lot of other stuff as well and for that I use things like little Fender amps , and I 've got a Peavey Profex which I use with a MIDI foot controller . |
| 3 | I have three upright basses , and I take two on the road with me , plus an old ‘ 64 Precision which I use on a couple of numbers . ’ |
| 4 | Denise Harriman , the senator 's aide , uttered a barely audible sigh which I translated as an expression of relief that her responsibility for the twins was ending . |
| 5 | I shall continue to pursue another matter on which I touched in an Adjournment debate , although it is difficult to arouse great interest in it among Conservative Members or among anyone else . |
| 6 | The theory which I commend as a guide to the fruitful development of international law in the control of force may be called ‘ ethical ’ or perhaps ‘ functional positivism ’ . |
| 7 | I shall certainly answer the question , because we have a policy to which I alluded as a result of an interruption made by the Government Whip . |
| 8 | I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles . |
| 9 | My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern . |
| 10 | This does not extend to feeding a patient against his will , which I regard as a form of aggressive treatment . |
| 11 | On point d ) of this paper , which I regard as a separate issue , I have already made the point at Research Management that Library staff are receiving many more non-Library enquiries now , referred from Exhibition Hall staff , from Shop staff , and from new Support staff on the switchboard . |
| 12 | So much for the jerk-off theories put forward by the police , in which I figure as an adulterous version of George Joseph Smith — not the brides in the bath but the wittol in the water . |
| 13 | I hope you are both as well as you can be , and to make up for my lack of inspiration here is a poem which I discovered in a very nice book of modern Scottish poetry : — |
| 14 | The teacher punished me , and from then on I had to keep the bird in a small cage which I hung in a tree outside the classroom window . |
| 15 | The next Christmas I received a present of a metal unbreakable flask from my friends , which I cherish as a reminder not to be a grumpy bag up hills . |
| 16 | It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years . |
| 17 | Multiplied by three point five which I brought to a figure of a hundred and twenty six thousand five hundred and twenty seven pounds and fifty six pence . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , in a " matched guise " test which I administered to a class of fourteen to fifteen year-old adolescents in the speaker 's own home area , seven out of eleven black pupils judged her to be black on the basis of an extract from the story above ( see Chapter 4 for a discussion ) . |
| 19 | Around that time I wrote a piece in a journal which I co-wrote with a friend . |
| 20 | The outcome of this process , which I indicated as a possible development in the first edition of this book , is the pre-eminence in the present-day labour movement of social democratic parties ; that is to say , of parties which are themselves coalitions of diverse groups and intellectual tendencies , rather than centralized , monolithic organizations held together by strict discipline and an authoritatively interpreted ideology . |
| 21 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 22 | I filled four pages which I sent with a footnote requesting that they send me some books . |
| 23 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 24 | Being a man myself , the similarity by which I recognize as a man must be not only to others previously classified as men but to myself ; I assume , and when close enough to read expression and gesture simulate , thought and emotion like mine , turning his observed behaviour inside out . |
| 25 | All my possessions began to smell of smoke ; even my better clothes which I kept in a closed cupboard under the bunk . |
| 26 | She certainly lived up to her name , and was the inspiration for the poem " Revenue Cutter " which I wrote after a particular stormy passage in the North of Scotland . |
| 27 | I give myself a pat on the back for every question which I answered in a way which led the pupils deeper into the problem . |
| 28 | The entire New Jersey garage movement which I documented in a 1988 issue of THE FACE was disco . |
| 29 | All I ate that day was a piece of bread , which I begged from a farmer eating his supper . |
| 30 | Yet to give instant opinions on the long term impact of the many educational reports , speeches , Parliamentary debates , learned researches , books , ideas and happenings which marked the years through which I worked as a teacher was quite impossible . |