Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 : — |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All my possessions began to smell of smoke ; even my better clothes which I kept in a closed cupboard under the bunk . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The entire New Jersey garage movement which I documented in a 1988 issue of THE FACE was disco . |
| 7 | It was the first occasion , but by no means the last , on which I stayed in a monastery . |
| 8 | In a broken-backed 1892 edition of John Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine which I bought in an antiquarian bookshop in west Beirut , a volume with a faded title in gold on its pale red cover , I discovered an item entitled ‘ Muslim Arabs ’ . |
| 9 | The upshot of this long sessions was that Eliot asked me to send him all the relevant documents , which I did in a letter of 20 May . |
| 10 | Have well considered questions ready for both types of interview which you ask in a logical sequence . |
| 11 | It seemed to create that relationship , that tension between the audience and the performers which you got in a theatre , in a music-hall , but not usually in a cinema . |
| 12 | I remember Nora 's first postcard — which she sent in an envelope secretly to my office . |
| 13 | At the end of a long gold chain she carried a Georgian spyglass which she applied in a rather menacing manner to a small , beady eye . |
| 14 | The first time I visit the Ladies ' Pond , I exclaim to Kelly , ‘ It 's like a Fellini film , ’ to which she says in a lazy Scottish brogue , ‘ Perhaps … |
| 15 | She was always writing on little pieces of paper , which she kept in a locked drawer in her room , and every morning she got up surprisingly early to go down to the kitchen . |
| 16 | Despite her eighteen years , there was something about the petulant droop of her mouth that reminded one of a spoilt child ; but even so she was strikingly lovely , with her big dark eyes and mass of golden hair , which she wore in a coil at the nape of her neck . |
| 17 | Her dark , grey-streaked hair , which she wore in a long bob , had been cut by Vidal Sassoon and she wore a beautifully tailored black suit relieved only by a little white flounce at the neckline . |
| 18 | Mrs Addison was a bonny woman with a mass of dark hair which she wore in a coil . |
| 19 | Every week she brought something which she arranged in a vase . |
| 20 | A dream in which she stood in a glorious , sweet-scented , flower-filled garden watching a tall , golden-haired man playing with beautiful blonde , blue-eyed children , all miniature replicas of himself . |
| 21 | Mrs Hill was a small , plump , middle-aged woman , with fine frizzy hair which she encased in a fine frizzy hair net ; she always wore a purple and blue flowered pinny , a garment more in keeping with an aunt or a cleaner than with a lover of science . |
| 22 | She was famous for her witty , outrageous remarks , which she delivered in a low , purring voice . |
| 23 | At that moment his secretary came into the room with two cups of coffee , which she distributed in a pregnant silence , shooting curious , covert glances at each of them . |
| 24 | Former Vogue model Rachel , who lives in Liverpool , features in a television advert in which she lies in a bath eating a Flake bar . |
| 25 | But all she saw was slow , repeated , stumbling , coughing killings at which she retched in a very conventional English animal-loving way , which upset Monsieur Grimaud , who was an aficionado , and had been lecturing Frederica on the provenance and meaning of that word . |
| 26 | She has always painted botanical illustrations of flowers in watercolour some of which she published in a portfolio in 1982 and others she sold . |
| 27 | Eleanor Rathbone identified the power that husbands derived from their breadwinner status as the ‘ Turk Complex ’ which she described in a biting passage : |
| 28 | This sister , Elisabeth , was to count for a good deal in Nietzsche 's later life , favourably and otherwise : she eventually became the custodian of all his surviving works during the long period of incapacity that preceded his death and continued in that influential role , which she executed in a highly questionable way , for thirty-five years afterwards . |
| 29 | While the soft-voiced viol consort was peculiarly suitable for domestic music , there was a standard mixed consort for public occasions , of which we hear in an account ( 1591 ) of an entertainment for Elizabeth I at Elvetham in Hampshire : an ‘ exquisite consort , wherein was the lute , bandora , base-viol , citterne , treble-violl , and flute ’ . |
| 30 | The Z-rock ( Cinoptilolite Zeolite ) which we placed in a test tank has split into pieces along what appear to be sedimentary lines and turned yellow . |