Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first time I fished it I hooked a very big barbel which I estimated at 11lb to 12lb . |
| 2 | She wore a babyish frock with little pink flowers embroidered on it and the gentle charm which she used on people who might be frightened of her . |
| 3 | So perhaps the sort of thing that might happen is what we found wholly by chance , in the personal interviews which we conducted with people who had been the subject of judgement summonses ( Appendix II , section 5 ) . |
| 4 | A total of 898 members of the Irish National Flying Club had 3,290 young birds in Penzance for the event in which they competed for £20,600 and a video sponsored by Salisbury Laboratories . |
| 5 | Political tensions in Côte d'Ivoire briefly lifted cocoa prices above £900 a tonne in May , after which they fell by 30% . |
| 6 | This tidy sum enabled him and Anne to move from the tiny Village apartment which they rented for $125 a month to a much larger air-conditioned place for $400 a month , a brownstone directly across the road from 16 West 11th Street , just off Fifth Avenue . |
| 7 | In 1947 Claud decided to make a complete break with his past and they settled near her family home in Youghal in a derelict Georgian mansion belonging to an American policeman which they rented for £150 a year . |
| 8 | Page after page , after page , after page , of descriptive material , drawn from all over the world , both published accounts , which Frazer drew on , erm , with er , kind of er , encyclopedic knowledge , but also a lot of personal contacts which he had with people like missionaries , er , colonial administrators , and even er , local people who would with descriptions and er , and facts about the things he was , he was researching . |
| 9 | Sotheby 's B shares carry ten votes each and this , of course , will enable Taubman to retain control of the auction house which he purchased for £80 million in 1983 , unless the bank forecloses on the debt of Mr Taubman 's affiliate ( assumed to be his investments in the troubled retailing sectors ) for which 11 million of his Sotheby 's B shares stand guaranty . |
| 10 | The shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown , wrote to Mr Lamont asking him to confirm whether he will compensate in full pensioners and others on income support for the rise , which he estimated at £2 a week . |
| 11 | Davies added that at least three people knew the location of Maxwell 's missing millions , which he estimated at £100 million . |
| 12 | Also he invented obscure postcards , which he sent to people chosen at random from out of the telephone directory in a deliberate act to question the postmanship that his dada had done … |
| 13 | The new volume ties that information through its comprehensive indices , but also serves as a catalogue of Monet 's drawings , sketchbooks , pastels , caricatures and curiosities , which include three tapestries woven , with his approval , from his designs , and fragments of pictures which appear to have survived the ruthless pruning which he inflicted on works of insufficient merit . |
| 14 | ERNEST Saunders , jailed for his part in the Guinness affair , has given a lecture to business students in which he spoke about ethics in management . |
| 15 | MFS Communications Co , formerly Metropolitan Fiber Systems , got its initial public offering — which it increased to 11m shares from a planned 8m , away at $20 a share , compared with the prospectus target of $17 to $19 . |