Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and placed his resignation in my hands , which I accepted with great regret . |
| 2 | But I soon learnt how to bake little cakes made of corn , which I ate with warm milk . |
| 3 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 4 | An American film was showing which I recognized as Double Indemnity . |
| 5 | Two members of the W.A.A.F. posted to Station X neatly encapsulated the idiosyncratic nature of Bletchley Park and its denizens in these verses , which I found with great pleasure in Beryl Escott 's recent Women in Air Force Blue : |
| 6 | Also asked him for report which I needed for Statutory Review . |
| 7 | At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food . |
| 8 | Mrs Di Billups was head of Broughton Junior School , South Humberside , which I visited with great pleasure and profit in the summer of 1988 . |
| 9 | As someone bereaved through the disease , I felt angry and upset by the flippancy with which you dealt with this subject . |
| 10 | Well a ponch er it 's sort of made of wood , and got a got a handle crosswise which you held in one half of it in each hand , it had a stem , and on the on the ponch itself was a sort of er piece of wood that had been er cut out to have about four , I think it was four , legs on this , you see and you used to stand over the ponch and |
| 11 | So if there 's anything , there 's a slightly different approach to it , and one thing that we are being urged to do , through the very way in which you mentioned in another context , is to make sure that facilities are appropriate locally , and developing policies within that . |
| 12 | The housekeeper brought in the coffee in an ornate silver tray which she deposited on one level of the Scandinavian wall-system . |
| 13 | ‘ Ingested that from which she died at that meal ? ’ |
| 14 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 15 | The goddess Hathor is thus given an uncharacteristic fierce role , but one which she fulfilled with great zeal . |
| 16 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 17 | One leaned forward , his face almost touching hers , and made some comment to which she responded with another shriek of mirth . |
| 18 | He gave her chips which she ate with great deliberation . |
| 19 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 20 | Worst of all , one auxiliary , feeding a number of people , was going up and down the rows of bowls on bed-tables with one spoon which she filled from each person 's bowl and put into each person 's mouth before going onto someone else with the same spoon to repeat the process . |
| 21 | They are an invaluable source for women 's health problems in this period , especially the ‘ dangerous perils ’ of childbirth , and movingly discuss the traumas of the early deaths of children , which she met with resigned submission to the will of God . |
| 22 | She sat up with a start , blinking , to find the room full of electric light again , and her host occupied in turning off the lamps , his face streaked with oil and his black hair wildly untidy , but with an air of triumph about him which she registered with some amusement . |
| 23 | For a week , while the ship was stored and watered and fresh livestock taken aboard , Sara lived in a strange no-man's-land of emotion in which she alternated between boiling excitement at what lay ahead and abject dolours at the thought of leaving Ireland . |
| 24 | She had revelled in old-fashioned melodramatic stories in days gone by , and had a stock of these expressions which she used in all sincerity . |
| 25 | One of the Follies , 83-year-old Mary Maugham , presented a fundraising doll to the foundation which she dressed in Edwardian costume herself . |
| 26 | Actually , she opened with Mozart 's scena Misera , dove son which tested her somewhat at the top of the stave , but there followed arias from Manon , Don Pasquale and La Forza del Destino which she gave with commanding conviction , variety and characterisation . |
| 27 | Dr Claudine Dauphin ( Lady Carlisle Research Fellow ) met several Somervillians at her lecture in Oxford in May on Dor which she mentioned in last year 's Report . |
| 28 | It was my unhappy duty to break the news of her son 's death , which she bore with great fortitude . |
| 29 | Jenny came in with some flowers from the garden which she set in small posy bowls down the centre and James took the pink lustre candlesticks from the mantelpiece and set them among the flowers . |
| 30 | Granny decided to dismount which she did with some difficulty on account of.having to keep her frock pulled down to hide her torn drawers . |