Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We have a form of presidential government in which she operates like a sovereign in her court ’ , which is just about the most toughly worded formulation of the case for Mrs Thatcher as Queen Boadicea driving a chariot of conviction politics through the conventions of collective Cabinet government . |
| 4 | Lady Miriam said the princess will unveil a special plaque to mark the opening of the new hospice , which she describes as a vital addition to health care facilities in the area . |
| 5 | She runs the advertising for Phileas Fogg Snacks , Babycham and Shell which she describes as an interesting mixture . |
| 6 | Violet has mostly dug up her patch and planted vegetables in it , but she has left a little strip of grass , about three foot long , which she mows with a lawn mower she bought at a jumble sale for two pounds . |
| 7 | She made a major contribution to Macmillan London , which she leaves as a profitable and successful part of the group . ’ |
| 8 | Former Vogue model Rachel , who lives in Liverpool , features in a television advert in which she lies in a bath eating a Flake bar . |
| 9 | L's utterance in line 45 begins with a comment on the photograph in London English ( " that 's me " ) but after a pause she switches to Creole to comment on V 's photography : " Valerie cut me off there , boy ! " which she follows with a laugh . |
| 10 | Basically communication is said to occur when a person ( the sender ) has a message which he sends in a particular medium , so that it is received by a recipient in whom it produces a response , followed by feedback to the sender ( Fig. 7.1 ) . |
| 11 | When he returns to the US he will start work on his first film script , which he describes as an allegorical tale about ELVIS PRESLEY actually being alive . |
| 12 | ‘ Dialectic ’ is a term which he borrows from Hegel but which he uses in a very different sense to Hegel 's . |
| 13 | bases on which he arrives at a decision that he may sometimes find considerable difficulty in making a good case on paper for some action he may have taken , even though he feels , and subsequent events may prove , that action to have been perfectly correct . |
| 14 | The narrator then proceeds to give some background information , which he situates in a previous time About four months before . |
| 15 | When Christopher Tietjens , the hero of Ford Madox Ford 's Parade 's End , returns from the trenches to his eighteenth century London house , he inhabits a single room which he furnishes like an army tent . |
| 16 | These can be thought of in terms of seven organizational imperatives , which he derives from a larger set constructed by Jacques ( 1989 ) . |
| 17 | The concept of rationality , which he promotes as a feature of modernizing societies , is tied to the process of communicative action rather than to the subjective and individualistic premises of much modern philosophy and social theory . |
| 18 | In a well-known Christian discourse , chapter 17 of The Acts of the Apostles , St Paul makes a speech to the Athenians in which he refers to an altar inscribed with the words , ‘ To an unknown God ’ . |
| 19 | A worker 's average earnings are £100 per week , all of which he spends at an even rate throughout each period . |
| 20 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 21 | At Connaught Brown there are fourteen new abstract paintings by William MacIlraith ( 24 March-20 April ) who is known for the picture surfaces which he achieves with a special wax and pigment technique . |
| 22 | Six-hitting remains the one area in which he acts as a straightforward statistician — as co-ordinator of WCM 's annual award . |
| 23 | He spends the day with the shepherd and helps him milk his ewes , and at the end of the day he sees that the shepherd puts the best milk he has in a wooden bowl , which he places on a flat stone some distance away . |
| 24 | In this account Althusser has challenged the idea that radical social changes such as revolutions — which he treats as a blueprint for change in general — are the result of a single contradiction in society . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's been to the United States three times during the past two years and returned with large sums of money , which he carries in a money belt . |
| 26 | The Department of the Environment has ruled that the centre which he regards as an indoor riding school would be visually intrusive and inappropriate in the Green Belt . |
| 27 | The elder reacts violently to every action which he construes as an attack upon the dignity of his office and frantically invokes the support of the ancestors . |
| 28 | Which he knows for a fact she does not spend on the child . |
| 29 | ‘ America is all fucked up , ’ is his and the film 's opening line , which he utters in a sardonic drawl before indulging in a spot of simulated masturbation . |
| 30 | For his third exhibition at Bernard Jacobson , Maurice Cockrill has made ‘ The Four Seasons ’ , four oval canvases which he shows with a group of new pictures on door panels . |