Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles . |
| 2 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 3 | I had erm an eight ba er eight band wireless which I bought for a hundred and twenty quid when I was working . |
| 4 | Then you had a a spare man what you sent over the harvest , which you hired for a a month of occasionally they only used to come by the day . |
| 5 | But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus . |
| 6 | At which she reached for a bottle of whisky called Old Rarity . |
| 7 | The main good grains on which we depend for an essential part of our daily diet come from plants belonging to the family of grasses and can not be readily digested until the tough outer shells are broken up and , sometimes , removed . |
| 8 | We brought books to Brownies which we read for an hour and we were not allowed to say a word . |
| 9 | The twins ' outfits for the panto , two of which they modelled for a preview , have cost £13,500 . |
| 10 | European directives on acquired rights and the transfer of undertakings regulations have given public service shop stewards their first glimmer of light over C C T which they fought for a decade with little more than their own bluff and courage . |
| 11 | They had all the grain of which they needed for a good breakfast to finish |
| 12 | I wrote to a prospective customer of the OALDCE 3/e Electronic on 19 May and faxed to you his letter in which he asked for a copy of the tape suitable for running on an AT&T machine . |
| 13 | Robert Bevan , one of their number , had worked at Pont-Aven and had known Paul Gauguin , and Sickert , whose sympathy with France went deep , owned a house in Neuville , on the outskirts of Dieppe , which he lent for a time to the Gilmans . |
| 14 | Connolly was sentenced to one day 's imprisonment , after which he applied for a summons against the labour master for alleged assault . |
| 15 | The book was never written and his only publications were two pamphlets , A Guide to the Electors of Great Britain , upon the Accession of a new King ( 1820 ) and Letters of Lord John Russell , upon the original formation of the House of Commons ( 1826 ) in which he declared for a thorough reform of the close boroughs he had always represented . |
| 16 | But last Thursday he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene . |
| 17 | Last Thursday , however , he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre-left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene . |
| 18 | Li Ximing , a politburo member and senior CCP official for Beijing , published an article in the Beijing Daily of July 14 in which he called for an acceleration of economic reform along capitalist lines . |
| 19 | Lord Newport asked Richard to teach in his place , which he did for a few months . |
| 20 | When Ken thereupon resigned , however , William appealed to him to remain , which he did for a further year . |
| 21 | Which he knows for a fact she does not spend on the child . |
| 22 | Community education organises two large camps each year for special needs students in addition to class provision which it arranges for a number of specific groups of adults : |
| 23 | And that is why we are so confident IBM — at least at the high levels where policy is made — has n't a clue about the nature of the large systems customers on which it depends for a considerable portion of its revenue and , we believe , more than half its gross profit . |
| 24 | Located in Bilston in the Black Country , Perry Poultry buys oven-ready poultry , which it processes for a prestigious range of customers including Marks & Spencer , Sainsbury 's and Kentucky Fried Chicken ( Perry makes Zingers , Kentucky 's new line of spiced burgers ) . |