Example sentences of "which they [vb past] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's it the system is n't but they send us a donation which they 'd had for appearing on B B C or something . |
| 2 | The Audit Commission review which was published in 1986 identified five main obstacles which they thought accounted for the slow and fragmented way that community care had developed in England and Wales . |
| 3 | The anniversary publicity also involved a video of a young band called Sanctuary singing , ‘ John , we want you Home ’ , which they had written for us , and a number of colleagues and others running in the London marathon wearing Friends of John McCarthy running vests , one bearing the number 17.4.86 . |
| 4 | After that , we drove to the Ming Tombs close by , and stopped to have an enormous picnic which they had packed for us at the Friendship Hotel . |
| 5 | Joyfully , the Marchants elected Kitty to the same category of quaint but endearing knick-knack which they had devised for her son . |
| 6 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 7 | In the sort snow-lit darkness people were systematically sicking up the food which they had saved for so long . |
| 8 | The amount of land made available to them was , on average , less than that which they had tilled for their own subsistence under serfdom . |
| 9 | It lasted 26 years before John Bays , who is still competition secretary , allowed the professionals back into the Senior Cup , and the bowl which they had competed for became the prize for a new competition , the Essex Senior Trophy . |
| 10 | It worries Thailand that the bombers were carrying air tickets to take them back to Bangkok , which they had left for Manila in December . |
| 11 | In National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King ( 1930 ) 46 T.L.R. 594 ; 47 T.L.R. 110 the suppliant company claimed repayment of betting duty which they had paid for three years in respect of the operation of a totalisator . |
| 12 | Finally , independent single-employer ( rather than association ) bargaining meant that US firms could still continue to deal with their own employees — even if they were now organised into trade unions — rather than be faced with an external trade union body against which they had fought for so long ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | At this time Klaus announced that he would stand for the post of Czech ( rather than federal ) Prime Minister , a move described by the Independent of June 19 as the " clearest possible sign that the Czechs have finally given up on the federation which they had fought for " . |
| 14 | Is it not simply because of this : that the government , because of their appalling mismanagement of our economy , have been forced to concede that they simply could not achieve that inflation target which they had set for themselves . |