Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have shaken hands with a great many friends , but there are some things I want to know which no-one seems able to explain . |
| 2 | One night during the making of the first film in November 1972 , she dusted down a piece of furniture in that crowded kitchen of hers ( which everyone had supposed to be a writing desk ) lifted the lid and revealed … a miniature organ . |
| 3 | Helen gave a talk about her work , but there was one subject about life in a space capsule which everyone seemed curious about , and which Helen duly explained : |
| 4 | He delivered a sermon during which everyone stood still , until he picked up a handful of earth and spoke in a deep voice : ‘ Ashes to ashes . |
| 5 | 10 October , 1979 STEPHEN SPENDER , teaching in Lynchburg , Virginia , writes in his journal : ‘ My class , which I took last night , seems irremediable . |
| 6 | When I explained that my husband had been a member of the British armed forces and was in uniform , the official seemed to lose all interest , which I thought strange , as there had been French and Belgian equivalents of the S.A.S. in 1944 . |
| 7 | Oh no quite probably matinee and then the early evening which I thought those people were coming out from look and erm , and this one , good grief fancy doing that be here half a day , you 'd think you 'd earn the damn money would n't you ? |
| 8 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 9 | The international managerial bourgeoisie , of which I made some conceptual criticisms above , is defined as : ‘ a socially comprehensive category , encompassing the entrepreneurial elite , managers of firms , senior state functionaries , leading politicians , members of the learned professions , and persons of similar standing in all spheres of society ’ ( Becker and Sklar , 1987 , p.7 ) . |
| 10 | ( 55 ) I found a bottle with which I made numerous marks on the ground surrounding our tents and a few yards into the jungle , as far as I dared venture . |
| 11 | An argument of 45 minutes ensued , during which I became distraught . |
| 12 | For some people this may be self-imposed ; for me , my work forms part of it — it is something which I enjoy and from which I get considerable satisfaction . |
| 13 | If Mrs Marr knew a bit of human anatomy , for example , if she 'd had a medical training or been a PE teacher something like that , she 'd have a better chance of being competent , by which I mean lethal . |
| 14 | By which I mean two things . |
| 15 | Maybe it 's not activated — by which I mean ready to go off when a vessel passes over it — until the ticking stops . |
| 16 | America , where there appear to be more grossly obese people than in Britain ( by which I mean those around double their desirable body weight , rather than just a couple of stones overweight ) , is an excellent place to observe this eating-speed phenomenon . |
| 17 | This was the only one of the three language efforts for which I received any payment ; in this case an honorarium from the Burma Government of thirty pounds . |
| 18 | Last summer , at our exhibition , a visitor asked me which I enjoyed most — planning a garment , knitting it or wearing it . |
| 19 | Not even that low humming sound which I knew sure as hell was n't the thermostat on the fridge . |
| 20 | He passed over a camo poncho , which I told Kaptan to put on , after I removed his blood-stained shirt . |
| 21 | One of the earliest was the study by Gagné and Baker ( 1950 ) with which I began this chapter ( fig. 5.1 ) , this study being designed to show that training in applying a different verbal label to each of the various stimulus lights would produce differentiation among them that would transfer to a subsequent motor task . |
| 22 | In the semi-final , in which I ran second , Cameron Sharp was in the lane adjacent to Chidi , who has a side-to-side action with his running which many felt made Cameron run along one of the lines so that he was disqualified . |
| 23 | Against the woman 's express wishes , he lit a piece of paper and went into her bedroom anyway , and reported a ‘ bedstead of wood with heath [ heather ] upon it by way of a bed ; at the foot of which I saw some sort of blankets of covering rolled in a heap ’ . |
| 24 | but she said if you have n't paid your first half , they demand the lot , which I know that |
| 25 | Most of which I know some of them have already come to an end like Julie 's E S |
| 26 | Lot one hundred and seventeen another Bruguier now showing , Lot one hundred and seventeen for which I 've three thousand offered two hundred , five hundred three thousand five hundred three thousand eight hundred , four thousand at four thousand pounds now , any more at four thousand ? |
| 27 | To make the top rectangular picture , I used a card mount in palest pink , behind which I stretched some cream silk . |
| 28 | She did the English , maths I did at the tech , which I got free as I was under eighteen . |
| 29 | Because some of the volunteers subsequently joined my slimming and exercise classes which I hold weekly at the Holiday Inn in Leicester , I was able to hear first hand the kind of encouraging comments which only served to confirm what I was seeing with my eyes as each week passed . |
| 30 | In the two schools in which I spent much of my working life ( one as head , one as assistant teacher responsible for physical education ) the broad aims were almost identical and may be summed up as follows : the creation of a living community of children in which the Arts , music , painting and poetry flourished ; where social awareness came before selfish intolerance ; where the written and spoken word was valued as a means to a more distant educational end rather than as an end in itself ; where understanding of number was regarded as more important than the ability to manipulate figures . |