Example sentences of "which [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 2 | This , maybe , was my opportunity to escape from the torpor into which I had sunk . |
| 3 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 4 | The implements available here for cleaning were as many and as varied in colour and smell as the places which I had to clean . |
| 5 | In each case the accuracy rate concerning events of which I had first-hand knowledge was about 50% ; half the information correct , half wrong . |
| 6 | ‘ The only real pre-requisite for a trade within the forces police is a GSCE grade C or better in English and a special forces driver 's licence which I had to qualify for at RAF St Athan . |
| 7 | Among the Cheka people high intellectual standards combined with education and culture had not assumed the outward expression which I had found to be so hateful among the former Russian intellectuals … . |
| 8 | That has brought us back again to the conundrum which you posed to me and in the face of which I had to express my helplessness — namely , how do we make the silent majority unsilent since that is by definition impossible ? |
| 9 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |
| 10 | ‘ I was taken to a room which I had to share with three others , two Indian women and one black man , ’ she told me . |
| 11 | Griffiths far instance , only came across Lewis 's power of imaginative invention and insight of which I had no conception before . |
| 12 | Frequently a Georgian house which I had always seen from the road and considered to be all of one date , was revealed , when I came to knock on its door , to be purely a façade built on to a much earlier building . |
| 13 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 14 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 15 | The letters gave him the chance of ‘ discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar and imitated in fairly cold blood . ’ |
| 16 | The children were very much like the angels of resurrection which I had seen over tombs . |
| 17 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 18 | The only occasions on which I had seen them in operation they had failed lamentably . |
| 19 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 20 | How could I make proposals on social security without mentioning National Insurance for which I had ministerial responsibility ? |
| 21 | My father put up on the sofa in the big living-room next to my bedroom , which I had claimed as my study . |
| 22 | Later , habit was to help me to find Aunt Louise with the assurance of a homing pigeon ; now , hesitant of asking the way ( being unable to read on the faces of those I encountered whether they were patients or helpers ) , I had great difficulty in finding the right building ; and then — up ill-lit stone staircases and along corridors — in finding the ward to which I had been directed . |
| 23 | Once I urged on her a walk which I had taken with children I knew and which had seemed very easy to me . |
| 24 | So I soon turned away , regretting only the loss of the shiny new tenpenny piece which I had inserted into the coin box to avoid any irritating boop-boop-boop cutting in to what I had stupidly hoped would be an uplifting and wholly encouraging conversation about my work and prospects . |
| 25 | That was in Frankfurt when a meeting over which I had no control went on just too long and I had no chance of making my flight . |
| 26 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
| 27 | The display windows of the shops had also been taken over and in some of them were displayed uniforms such as that of the Russian Legion which I had just seen . |
| 28 | I remarked on the truculence , boorishness and dishonesty which I had encountered , routinely , in the hotel and in restaurants ; indeed , whenever I had had dealings with anyone in a public capacity . |
| 29 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 30 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |