Example sentences of "which [pron] [adv] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a great guitar , which I also used for most of the rhythm parts , but then the Les Pauls just took over ! ’ |
| 2 | If memory serves me right , I was promoted to Div 45 paddling in an Augsburg 72 , a high volume boat which I also used for many white water trips . |
| 3 | The answer was a kick on the eyebrow which I almost mistook for being shot . |
| 4 | I remember being unable to connect those grainy breasts and pubic hair with anything in my own life — flesh , for instance — but the image gave me a mysterious frisson which I mistakenly took for sex . |
| 5 | Since then he has graduated to writing sequels to E.F.Benson 's Lucia novels , a book with the good title of Expecting Someone Taller ( which I must read sometime ) and another with the awful title of Who 's Afraid of Beowulf ? ( which I recently read for amusement , without success ) . |
| 6 | Even in the suburbs of Auckland , New Zealand 's largest city , there are areas of native bush where it is possible to work undisturbed from dawn until dusk , finding a peace of mind and in turn concentration which I always yearned for in Suffolk . |
| 7 | This is that for your Lordships ' House to recognise such a principle would overstep the boundary which we traditionally set for ourselves , separating the legitimate development of the law by the judges from legislation . |
| 8 | And the overall groupings which we finally evolved for this book in terms of life focus also turn out to be remarkably close to the clusters of life styles picked out in an earlier American study taking just this perspective , Robert Williams and Claudine Wirths 's Lives through the Years . |
| 9 | Mrs Knelle and June discussed turf , which they both used for fuel . |
| 10 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 11 | Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement . |
| 12 | Downing Street yesterday firmly rejected bitter criticism by President Clinton of ‘ unfair ’ subsidies towards the European Airbus which he partly blamed for the threatened loss of 28,000 Boeing jobs . |
| 13 | As he reached his door he found his thoughts turning once more to the urgent problem of putting food in his belly , and a part of his mind registered with pleasure that these thoughts were at last supplanting the ones in which he alternately pined for Aset and visited unholy vengeance upon her . |
| 14 | He had a number of set speeches which he frequently rehearsed for such occasions . |
| 15 | There was none of the carelessness with which he usually waited for Twomey to bring him his glass . |
| 16 | His first impressions of England were his contemporaries ' upper-class accents , which he initially took for caricatures , and the vast post-war housing estates , unlike anything in his native land . |
| 17 | The first of these , which formed part of Gloucester 's original endowment , was the manor of Kingston Lacy in Dorset , which he apparently held for the rest of the reign . |
| 18 | The first of these , which formed part of Gloucester 's original endowment , was the manor of Kingston Lacy in Dorset , which he apparently held for the rest of the reign . |
| 19 | Aspects of life in the countryside which he once took for granted now seem to be increasingly questioned . |