Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] at [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Ingested that from which she died at that meal ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | A decent interval elapsed , during which we looked at each other rather anxiously . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I filled a syringe with a " mixed macterin " which we used at that time against the secondary invaders of distemper . |
| 8 | Perhaps the last occasion on which they figured at all prominently was at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia in 1856 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |