Example sentences of "[prep] which i was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the interview about which I was most apprehensive came in making the film on the Scharnhorst . |
| 2 | He then telephoned Nigel 's relations for me , for which I was most grateful — it had been a long day . |
| 3 | In one way it was good to have success so quickly , but in another way it meant I was facing things for which I was n't really prepared . |
| 4 | The long dark evenings , the unfinished building work , the awful autumn weather , and the fact that we could not get out made these interpersonal difficulties , for which I was not prepared , much worse . |
| 5 | With no obvious footholds , no reliable gear and no tempting jugs this was a free-climbing land for which I was simply not equipped . |
| 6 | It indicated that he did n't know me well — for which I was deeply grateful . |
| 7 | The weather was hot and I felt little interest in ruins ; but the Parthenon proved to have a matchless beauty for which I was quite unprepared . |
| 8 | There was one moment of which I was particularly proud , and Richard made it a magic one . |
| 9 | I appreciate the effect that the hon. Gentleman 's visit , of which I was not aware , must have had on him . |
| 10 | Back came a snorter the like of which I was never again to receive from Eliot , though I am sure it was thoroughly well-deserved . |
| 11 | The experience of racing again John at those Games left a small scar ( of which I was quite proud ) and a big impression . |
| 12 | All the painting and drawing I did at Tintagel Primary culminated in my ‘ masterpiece ’ , of which I was quite proud . |
| 13 | In view of the apparently conflicting views expressed by this court in other cases , in two of which I was personally involved , I would like to add some words of my own . |
| 14 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 15 | However , in the meantime it was a daunting thought that if I took promotion I would have to give up the job in which I was most happy . |
| 16 | However , she continued to write and then Meehan himself sent the first of many letters , beginning , ‘ Dear Mr Kennedy , I am serving a Life imprisonment for a horrible murder in which I was never involved . ’ |
| 17 | My whole thinking , every waking moment should have been concentrating on the 100 metres in which I was still convinced , despite losing to Carl in Madrid earlier in the season , that I could take the gold medal . |
| 18 | In fact , when the Labour Party did come to power in 1964 , the only documentation they possessed on this subject was a single sheet of paper provided by myself , recommending among other things the establishment of rent officers , an idea in which I was subsequently able to interest Dick Crossman . |
| 19 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 20 | A new R. A. F. camp , to which I was duly sent , had just been opened and was still partly empty when one day a new batch of prisoners was announced . |
| 21 | I was a party to all these decisions other than B. v. B. ( Contempt Committal ) [ 1991 ] 2 F.L.R. 588 cited and relied upon in Howes v. Howes , 142 N.L.J. 753 but I should also refer to two recent decisions to which I was not a party , but to one of which Scott L.J . |
| 22 | So I spent the 4 weeks living in a style to which I was not accustomed , but found no difficulty in adopting ! |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been ashore , enjoying a short break to which I was perfectly entitled , ’ she flung back at him . |
| 24 | Apart from housing , rent restriction and the like , Wilson flattered me by consulting me on a number of topics , on which I was never slow to express an opinion and never disappointed when that opinion was totally disregarded or not even mentioned . |
| 25 | There was n't a rehearsal in either Vienna or Salzburg at which I was n't present . |
| 26 | Hardly any thing could resist this accuracy at which I was much impressed , though a bit alarmed at Griffin himself , who sat around on a stool amid the most dreadful carnage and what was later known as flak in order to observe the behaviour and results of his phenomenal piece of artillery . |
| 27 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |