Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It set West Indies a target of 225 , which everyone knew was about three hundred too low , and inevitably Greenidge and Haynes began with a century partnership . |
| 2 | But it is by no means true that an ad which everyone notices is necessarily good — it may be noticed for reasons which are totally irrelevant to the strategy . |
| 3 | So you know there were erm lots of little things like that erm in the layout of the flats which I thought were n't er well they just were n't practical . |
| 4 | And I have lots of letters which I discovered about five years ago , which I thought were probably letters that my father had written it , Adam , because his name and my grandfather 's name were exactly the same . |
| 5 | Getting taken to the doctors and getting needles stuck in you erm things like um being fed cod liver oil , things like being hit for doing things which I thought were quite legitimate like pruning my mother 's geraniums and stuff like that . |
| 6 | which I thought was rather ironic about Adele , you know , she managed to kind of erm erm quell the the French , |
| 7 | I mean , when I think I was with my bags and things and he went , Jo , the message has gone through , everything 's fine I went , your sister , I relayed that little message which I thought was which I thought was rather comical , you see , and I said , oh did you , and he said yeah . |
| 8 | However , having said that , I was impressed with the range of Book Tokens ’ advertising , which I thought was carefully targeted and attractive . ’ |
| 9 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 10 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 11 | Stuart said he 'd given Oliver some money , which I thought was quite unnecessary , not that I said so . |
| 12 | She even got round giving me the wrong answer first , which I thought was quite subtle . |
| 13 | Which I thought was quite nice . |
| 14 | Which I thought was quite funny . |
| 15 | He said about a , a free gift as the first thing and then he said about made enquiries of others which I thought was almost er er a , a way there of saying well , you know , oth other people more or less recommend Friends Provident . |
| 16 | And actually , one day , because she knew it was my favourite , she said that I could have permission to have it copied and gave me the name of the jeweller , which I thought was so sweet . |
| 17 | She was n't worried about her wardrobe in comparison to me having landed on the on the road , which I thought was extremely good considering that she I 'd just demolished a nice piece of her f er a piece of her furniture . |
| 18 | In spite of mean and unworthy insinuations to the contrary-insinuations which I fear are always inevitable in the case of men who hold prominent but not primary positions in any administration-I have felt a strong personal attachment to you as my chief . |
| 19 | I reached for The Mayor of Casterbridge which I knew was somewhere in the bed . |
| 20 | It seemed that there was some , because his face , which I knew was not handsome , with its thin nose and high , bony forehead and small mouth , had still some special quality for me which an unbiased analysis of the features could n't explain . |
| 21 | The fact that he had been ‘ much distressed ’ by that prospect proved his genuine regard , which I knew was not contrived . |
| 22 | ‘ Did you know she 's a Catholic ? ’ he asked me as though it really mattered , and he gestured with his cigarette at a crucifix that hung over the narrow bed , which I knew was there solely for sentimental purposes because it had belonged to Ellen 's dead father , but to McIllvanney it was a challenge . |
| 23 | She crammed it , tissue and all , into the left pocket of her fur coat , which I hoped was either fake or farmed , without looking at it . |
| 24 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 25 | there 's no likelihood of getting the same sort of regime that we 've got which I know is n't democratic in that sense |
| 26 | The practice , which I gather is fairly widespread in Africa , appears to be effective in warding off anaemia , presumably due to a high iron concentration in the mud . |
| 27 | I believe it may be the Bowes Moor Hotel now , which I hear is quite a large and important establishment and in a very good position on the main road to the M6 . |
| 28 | Of course , the street of which I speak is merely the ten or so blocks that comprise the theatre district , and which , in the public imagination , has always been known as ‘ The Great White Way ’ . |
| 29 | This is a only thumb-nail sketch which I hope is fairly accurate , though the complex and confused relationship between the planning and legal aspects makes it extremely difficult to second-guess . |
| 30 | Vic said he thought two camps were a good idea because there would have been two originally and it would psychologically prepare the Indians for playing their ancestors , which I said was just a rationalisation of elitism . |