Example sentences of "which [vb past] exactly " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had used some silky material to make a skirt which toned exactly with the wool , covered the buttons with the material of the skirt and the whole outfit was therefore beautifully co-ordinated . |
| 2 | Her dislike of him was such that during the filming of A Letter to Four Wives , in which she picks up a photograph of a man and reacts with distaste , director Joe Mankiewicz used a photo of Preminger which prompted exactly the right expression from Darnell . |
| 3 | By 1960 Sartre had progressed to a radical " post-communist " phase in his thinking , a phase which coincided exactly with Nizan 's " pre-communist " phase in Aden . |
| 4 | The Tyneside Shorthorns were very similar to the Ayrshire in 1790 and even as late as 1887 there was a Dutch breed in Drenthe which looked exactly like the Ayrshire of the time . |
| 5 | Probably the most spectactular was Thylacosmilus , which looked exactly like the recently extinct sabre-tooth " tiger " of the Old World , only more so if you see what I mean . |
| 6 | However , only one month earlier the High Court had reached a decision in W. H. Smith Do It All Ltd and Payless DIY Ltd v. Peterborough City Council [ 1990 ] 2 CMLR 577 , which gave exactly the opposite result . |
| 7 | The Oakes Report , which appeared exactly one year after the setting-up of the committee , made a number of recommendations of which perhaps the most important was that an independent national body be set up with specific terms of reference to include the ‘ general oversight of the development of maintained higher education ’ and the responsibility to ‘ collect , analyse and present where appropriate in conjunction with the Department of Education and Science and the University Grants Committee information affecting the demand for and supply of higher education in the maintained sector ’ . |
| 8 | Soon after Walter Luff 's arrival as Transport Manager in 1933 , Marshall showed him the design for the new railcoach , which fitted exactly the requirement for the Promenade and Fleetwood route . |
| 9 | Around the same time an ancient tomb was discovered in a garden only 250 yards from the skull rock which fitted exactly the biblical description . |
| 10 | Although we could expect considerable improvement in front-end processing , we were unlikely ever to have a phoneme lattice which reflected exactly both what the speaker said and the pronunciations in the lexicon . |
| 11 | ‘ My grandfather could probably have taken you unerringly to the chapter and verse which said exactly that , ’ she averred . |
| 12 | His sermon on the primacy of Peter ( which mirrored exactly what he had said on the subject in a tract written before he became pope , " De primatu Romani pontificis " ) explored the authority by which the pope governed , the Petrine commission . |