Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Unusually for me , I saw a few paintings and so on which I thought were lovely , but of course purchase is quite out of the question — and anyway we have no wall space left here !
2 We were split up which I thought was cruel .
3 And you 'd actually spotted it already which I thought was brilliant except we do need to have the
4 Sara Maitland says : ‘ I could say something which I thought was warm and friendly , but which might be regarded by the voters of Milwaukee as offensive . ’
5 supposed to be which I thought was good of them really cos you know , it 's nice to know is n't it ?
6 I pushed open the door of the old house , which I thought was uninhabited , but to my surprise there was a bed , a table and a candle inside .
7 Even people who managed to stay married seemed to do it only by making incredible compromises which I thought was contemptible . ’
8 ‘ It was then I decided to find a product which I thought was marketable and start marketing it , ’ he said .
9 The other criteria I I I I tend to agree with are matters which are capable of being weighing and balancing against each other and they are not overriding , but I think those three matter which I specified are overriding and would rule out any location .
10 So I had stuff which I knew was good , but that did n't quite fit the group because the tunes needed to be more orchestrated .
11 Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex .
12 erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex .
13 Feeling pleased for them , I lowered the binoculars through which I 'd been able to see even the tears on Mrs Unwin 's cheeks , and there below me and in front of the grandstand was the man with the gaunt face looking up towards the Clubhouse windows .
14 The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory .
15 Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it .
16 The method of killing which you employed was terrible indeed .
17 I think that the summary which you gave is fair also in relation to E N V Eleven and Twelve , yes .
18 In Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 the plaintiff sued in respect of defects with which she was born which she alleged were attributable to a motor accident that rendered her mother a quadriplegic at the time that she was pregnant with the plaintiff .
19 In a report released in late March Hills outlined a long list of trade practices which she alleged were unfair and were hampering the growth of US exports to Thailand .
20 But just before the deal was finalised , Ms Cann realised there were four more Animals of Farthing Wood titles of which she had been unaware .
21 But that , after all , was the only discussion at which she had been present , and many conclusions , clearly , had been come to since then .
22 While no one must know the extent to which she had been alarmed , she had no objection to them knowing the cause .
23 She sat down awkwardly on one of the chairs , feeling highly incongruous in her black dress , which she had been obliged to put back on that morning , and looked down at her stiletto-clad feet .
24 She repressed a shudder as he took the bonnet and curled himself down onto the floor holding it daintily between his long fingers — which she had been careful to avoid touching .
25 Britain had successfully negotiated long-term contracts for the total output from the Congo , and so had a near monopoly of ore supplies , which she had been happy to share with the US in the wartime atomic weapons programme .
26 The police had apologized for the incident as if they were personally to blame , their apologies becoming even more profuse as they told her that , without a number plate ( which she had been unable to remember ) to trace , there was little chance of them finding the car , let alone the driver .
27 You could get a meal for five francs at Rosalie 's little place , and Modi often bartered a meal for drawings which she believed were worthless .
28 The rope from which she hung was old .
29 Of course , she was often questioned , but had no intention of intruding on privacy — a commodity which she herself prized so highly , and which she knew was difficult to attain .
30 Hughes established that 36% of the single thesis which she studied was unpublished because it consisted of raw analytical data .
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