Example sentences of "which we [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move . |
| 2 | A scholarly opinion can make or break a picture , as in the case of a Saraceni which we sold in 1989 . |
| 3 | Now how a man who works on can think there 's anything funny about species I just ca n't understand erm but there it is. erm well , suppose , however , that in my view wrongly one did suppose that there was something erm in this sort of idea of the decoupling between the processes which we observed in single populations and erm the sort of mechanisms leading to large scale evolution , what kinds of processes are held to be important when it comes to large scale evolution events ? |
| 4 | But we have got a paper which we produced in nineteen eighty seven which was a review of the Greater York area using travel to work statistics from the albeit from the nineteen eighty one erm er census . |
| 5 | After a few hundred yards it crosses a road and indeed has become a road , which we followed for two miles . |
| 6 | His strength of character was invaluable in dealing with the guards and his commitment to his fellow hostages was such that he would listen quietly and matter of factly on the occasions when we all had a heart-to-heart about the little ways in which we got on each others ' nerves . |
| 7 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 8 | A decent interval elapsed , during which we looked at each other rather anxiously . |
| 9 | No longer hiding behind the screen memories , the stories told to us by others , we began to unpick our social and psychic formations , within the support and containment , permission-giving and encouragement to take risks which we offered to each other . |
| 10 | and of the country at the things which we heard during that trial . |
| 11 | I once chaired at , somebody may remember a sort of constitutional commission as it was grandly called , which we went through all these things with a tooth-comb in order to try to get the composition of the executive committee er , right and appropriate for er , this current time . |
| 12 | While we were in Christchurch there was a ‘ Festival of Romance ’ , in which we went to several concerts , exhibitions and lectures , and on the final night the orchestra played a fireworks concert beside the lake in Hagley Park . |
| 13 | The explicit theoretical approach which we adopted in 5 should certainly not be necessary ( unless our students are students of linguistics ! ) , but we will need forgive examples of alternative ways of ordering information in an English clause ( as we did with the John ate fish and chips sentence in 5.4 ) and then rely on the students ' ability to acquire a sense of which is contextually most suitable . |
| 14 | Particularly in doing a great part like Juliet which we toured in all kinds of places before coming here to the Other Place venue . |
| 15 | ‘ We can not simply change the face at the top and expect to win in 1996 on the programme on which we lost in 1992 . |
| 16 | For example , on the comment form which we gave to all respondents at the end of the field-work , one policewoman wrote , ‘ The idea of research being carried out within the RUC , or indeed any police force , is a good one . |
| 17 | His aim was to beat the weather and bowl them out again , which we did for 40 , thereby winning by an innings . |
| 18 | In addition to mainstream training funds , we secured over £500,000 in European funding which we matched with other partners in the city to increase the level and range of training available to both companies and individuals . |
| 19 | Weiner says that in the Eighties we 've gone past the ‘ grazing ’ stage , in which we picked at this and that all day long , to ‘ refuelling ’ : the pit-stop in which we shovel food in our mouths as fast as we can . |
| 20 | The experience I have recorded left us with the convictions with which we started in general confirmed . |
| 21 | The sort of criteria which we used for paradigmatic delimitation are of no help here . |
| 22 | I filled a syringe with a " mixed macterin " which we used at that time against the secondary invaders of distemper . |
| 23 | to this , which is the thirty ninth in the series of great centenary lectures , which we inaugurated in nineteen hundred and seventy , which was very early in the life of the Centre for Continuing Education . |
| 24 | There were many good things which we supported in that , but it 's gone too far and become too bureaucratic . |
| 25 | Otley threw us a large towel each and some dry clothes which we changed into like embarrassed children on the beach , then we had a mug of cocoa and a gingerbread man with currant eyes and chocolate buttons down his front . |
| 26 | But unless there have been marked changes over the past 30 years in insolation , the quantum efficiency of phytoplankton photosynthesis , or rates of nutrient supply , interannual changes or lack thereof , in chlorophyll ( which we inferred from interannual changes in Secchi depths ) will reflect interannual variations in primary production in the North Pacific or any other ocean basin . |
| 27 | And there was the er question which we posed at two o'clock , which was your reaction , reflections on |
| 28 | Substitution drills would also be used a first step in mastering the totally different topic system in Dusun which we discussed in 7.1.8 . |
| 29 | An example of this kind of theoretical inadequacy is well illustrated by the research into the clausal hypothesis of language processing which we discussed in this chapter . |
| 30 | These simple propositions are truisms , but their importance and the dangers of departing from them are highlighted by this appeal , which we allowed on 13 March 1992 . |