Example sentences of "which i [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby .
2 I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie .
3 All this raises the whole issue of the relationship between interpretation and conceptual evaluation which I touched on in Chapter 2 .
4 One job has led to another but I do remember a particular film audition which I walked out of , much to the concern of everyone , my agent , and the casting director .
5 My nocturnal escapades sometimes included visits to the school kitchens , where I ate bananas , leaving a mound of their skins conspicuously on one of the tables , and quantities of ice cream , which I scooped up in handfuls , defiling the common stock with the unhygienic touch of my individuality .
6 Not only this , but within the metric system itself there is standardisation , so that some of the terms with which I grew up have all but disappeared .
7 His career at Thame had been full of promise , attested by the Oxford University Local Examinations certificate framed on the walls of the terraced house in Cardiff in which I grew up .
8 I now live in a small Perthshire village , substantially less homogeneous than the one in which I grew up but in which there are also a few catholic families and where the majority are of presbyterian Scottish/Ulster stock .
9 ‘ The biggest influence on my life , my career , was probably the atmosphere in which I grew up .
10 I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they !
11 When I 'm boat fishing I use a plain , bodied waggler , which I shot down to a quarter inch or so off the surface .
12 It was a right which I followed in .
13 A Saab and a Chevrolet Camaro which I brought back with me from America .
14 The Natural History Museum undertook to buy any suitable specimens which I brought back , and most firms I approached agreed to provide rations , ammunition , films , medicine and other requirements for the expedition , either free or at a considerable discount .
15 I then made copies of the negatives and went into the darkroom , using pens , brushes , sandpaper , whatever came to hand , in fact to distort the images before finally re-copying to get higher contrast prints , which I finished off with selenium toner .
16 I thought that out of sight was out of mind and put my handbag inside a shopping bag , which I zipped up and then left in my shopping trolley .
17 The bucket had a rope attached to its handle and I skimmed it over the stern to haul up a gallon or so of sea-water which I slammed down in front of Rickie .
18 But this would be to simplify things for , as I have argued , black kids generally come from the kind of family backgrounds which are not suited for their own educational needs — for reasons which I spelled out in the last chapter , but will summarize as ‘ neglect ’ or ‘ unattainable goals ’ .
19 I found a pass belonging to a Mrs Mulholland of Bootle which I sent on to her .
20 And eventually , well I had a , I had a questionnaire letters were coming to him which I sent back because I , Paul had never told me where he lived in Gloucester .
21 I had wrapped the vase carefully in newspaper and put it in a string bag , which I slung over my shoulder .
22 The ways in which I lived out this my own appropriate identity within this vocation were diverse .
23 We did a production of The Caretaker , which I designed , directed and in which I played on for the characters . ’
24 I became famous ( or notorious ) for my diary , which I kept up assiduously , and which was generally believed to be full of scandal of the sort the school authorities would not like to see appear in the newspapers .
25 I must now confess something which I kept back from you in Chapter 3 .
26 Which I wrote down on the diary records side .
27 The chief of these , which I carried around with me , were my clothes .
28 This issue of sexism has a direct relevance to the main topic of this book : a survey of housewives and their attitudes to housework which I carried out in London in 1971 .
29 The first is a transcript taken from some ethnographic research which I carried out into the culture of racism amongst young white men living on a large council estate in South London .
30 So I gradually amassed armfuls of small twigs , which I carried back to my cave .
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