Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My GP prescribed an oral antibiotic which I took for five months , but it did n't do anything . |
| 2 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 4 | However I do not recall hearing of any problem every being experienced by low-flying military hardware or cruise-level GA over Madley Earth Station which I managed for several years prior to my retirement last year , and which I believe is a much larger facility than Oakhanger . |
| 5 | And one of the differences that anorexia can become much more visible and identifiable , whereas those of us who have experienced bulimia , which I had for thirteen years , can be extremely secret and well disguised because we normally do n't change from normal body weight . |
| 6 | Also asked him for report which I needed for Statutory Review . |
| 7 | Snell bowled me a no-ball which I hit for six , then hit a four off the extra ! |
| 8 | peoples , can affect where you , which erm , which you needed for some |
| 9 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 10 | The garden depicted with such passionate intensity is based on one at Maytham Hall , a house in Kent which she rented for many years and last visited in 1907 . |
| 11 | She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt . |
| 12 | In May 1936 , believing the emperor of Ethiopia 's cause to be a just one , she began a weekly journal , New Times and Ethiopia News , which she edited for twenty years . |
| 13 | After a few hundred yards it crosses a road and indeed has become a road , which we followed for two miles . |
| 14 | His aim was to beat the weather and bowl them out again , which we did for 40 , thereby winning by an innings . |
| 15 | The sort of criteria which we used for paradigmatic delimitation are of no help here . |
| 16 | Despite revolutionary zeal , or perhaps because of it , they sought immediate compensations for the miseries of daily life , and spontaneous methods of attack which they mistook for political strategy . |
| 17 | They were quickly fitted with track brakes and put back into service on the Crystal Palace route still in Croydon Corporation livery , in which they ran for several weeks , before being sent to Hendon in turn for repainting and renumbering . |
| 18 | Some who had failed to get out of the way in time bore the scars like war wounds or medals which they paraded for public admiration . |
| 19 | Nos. 378 , 382 and 387 received carbon skid trolley heads in March 1948 , which they retained for twelve months . |
| 20 | Ten Scottish National Party members invaded a room on the first floor of the building which they occupied for three hours before being evicted by security guards . |
| 21 | ‘ Fine streaming ’ — the allocation of pupils , according to their general ability , to classes in which they remained for all subjects — declined in favour . |
| 22 | He had given a speech earlier in the year on the subject of ‘ Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago ’ , at the end of which he appealed for mass action and now he was testing the dedication and organisational abilities of his P.E.G . |
| 23 | Other national platforms for his views and activities were the Council of Church Missioners to the Deaf and Dumb , of which he was chairman from 1927 for eighteen years ; the Central Advisory Council for the Spiritual Care of the Deaf and Dumb on which he served for forty-four years , and the Joint Examination Board ( later renamed " The Deaf Welfare Examination Board " ) of which he was a founder member . |
| 24 | I am sorry that the Secretary of State was not in the Chamber when the hon. Gentleman ended by saying that his last ambition in politics was to abolish the Department in which he served for eight years . |
| 25 | Educated at Leeds Grammar School , he graduated in classics and divinity at Trinity College , Dublin , in 1904 , after which he taught for two years at a school in West Kirby in Liverpool . |
| 26 | His friends say the van , which he kept for two years until he turned professional in 1954 , helped teach him more about comedy than anything else . |
| 27 | He managed this with the help of a flannel , some scented soap from England which he kept for special occasions and a kettleful of hot water that took five minutes to boil on the single electric ring that served as a cooker and , in winter , as a heater . |
| 28 | Stoker then volunteered as unpaid dramatic critic of the Dublin Mail , for which he wrote for five years while retaining his clerkship . |
| 29 | It was a decision which he regretted for some years , although within the university he proved an effective teacher and he was dean of the faculty of science from 1894 until 1913 . |
| 30 | It features new stone sculptures intended to be shown outdoors as well as in the gallery , a new red ‘ Void ’ from that continuing series of wall sculptures , one of which was shown in Kapoor 's pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1990 , and material related to the stage designs which he made for recent performances by dancer Laurie Booth at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |