Example sentences of "[prep] which i be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy to pretend that the values and standard of behaviour about which I am speaking are genteel or middle class . |
| 2 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 3 | No excitement in my life has ever quite equalled the tense fifteen minutes during which I was connected to that fish . |
| 4 | After much remonstrating during which I was told very kindly and politely that there was no problem , till I felt like tearing my hair out , I was sent to sit in a corner ( just a woman you see ) and Mr Fleming was ushered off to meet an official , rush off somewhere and come back with a piece of paper which was duly stamped , passport returned , and off we went to meet our contact , who explained in a jocular fashion that I was the problem . |
| 5 | I was at length summoned for interview , during which I was told that the War Office wished to fill a post of Instructor-cum-British Adviser at the Staff College and Royal Military College , Baghdad , Iraq , and that in order to reassure the Iraqi High Command that they were not sending a British ‘ plant ’ ( for relations between the two countries were strained ) , they asked the British Council to fill it . |
| 6 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
| 7 | Yet it does not falsify the principle of affirmation for which I am arguing . |
| 8 | If it had n't been for your shiftless nephew , Suzie would be back in England by now , my mother would n't be having sleepless nights and I could be in London doing the job for which I 'm paid ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was 17 years old when I committed the offence for which I was sentenced to die , and I did n't even start thinking and caring about my life until I was at least 20 . ’ |
| 10 | I explained again : about my job description , custom and practice and my right to do the work for which I was employed . |
| 11 | This year the big attraction at Christie 's summer party was the Badminton Bureau , a truly magnificent piece of furniture for which I was told a special place was built at Badminton House . |
| 12 | I translated Schiller 's Don Carlos and revised my version of Heinrich von Kleist 's Prinz von Homburg for Eric Bentley 's anthology of classic German theatre , for which I was paid a pittance . |
| 13 | My heart fills with the anticipation of this perfect grove , towards which I am walking . |
| 14 | The ch'i however varies in density from person to person , and the line that I should follow may be hard to discern through the turbid obscuring ch'i of which I am composed . |
| 15 | It now appears that , in addition to this , I will be expected to part with a further portion of my income as a graduate tax to pay for my education , the last three years of which I am spending in hospitals , not only studying , but assisting on a voluntary basis with essential clinical procedures and tests . |
| 16 | At the time of which I 'm writing Alison was in her third year studying French and Russian at university and Sandy , having qualified in medicine , was doing a year 's postgraduate research in the States . |
| 17 | Central Television came and made an interview/ documentary film for their weekly current affairs programme Central Lobby , during the course of which I was seen driving around the neighbourhood , first preceding and then followed by the camera crew . |
| 18 | When I insisted , she flew into a rage , and the newly-weds had a very public row in the course of which I was termed a wet-rag and a killjoy who was too old to have fun any more . |
| 19 | I very much enjoyed this change of life , especially the 15 a week , of which I was allowed to keep half-a-crown . |
| 20 | There was an element of criticism there of which I was informed by the Chief Whip and the Lord Chancellor , just as there was an element of criticism of Hailsham , and it seemed quite possible that the Whips would prefer a compromise candidate . |
| 21 | Nevertheless it was a house of which I was to have very happy memories . |
| 22 | Unamuno also wrote : ‘ Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion ’ — a very Zen Buddhist concept of which I was to learn the truth in Salamanca . |
| 23 | I was deep into a descending spiral when I heard a tap at the window against which I was sitting . |
| 24 | I ca n't recall the routes up which I was dragged , but what I do remember is strolling back to the car under one of those hazy , purple , Peak District sunsets , contentedly weary and glowing with achievement — only to find that thieves had struck . |
| 25 | With which I 'm left with an impression that you do n't actually know where the dwellings are going to go in general terms . |
| 26 | I am sure that the reputation of Cleveland Bridge can rely on its postwar achievements as a member of the consortia with Dorman Lond ( B and E ) Ltd , on the Forth and Severn bridges ( with which I was involved ) and its own Humber and Dartford projects . |
| 27 | Here is another of the paradoxes of anorexia nervosa : I must , in my unconscious , have wanted to grow up , but at the same time I was determined not to , because the models of potential adulthood with which I was presented were either repugnant or impossible to attain . |
| 28 | The parcel with which I was presented was the size of a largish shoe-box and surprisingly heavy . |
| 29 | This was all the more so , since part of the problem with which I was faced was due , as I recognized , to lack of forethought on my side , though it had been complicated by a stroke of ill-luck . |
| 30 | She also provided some herbal oil with which I was to massage Jean-Claude 's limbs . |