Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb past] for " 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 | I found nothing noteworthy except on one , possibly the leader , who had a considerable amount of silver which I pocketed for distribution to the poor . |
| 3 | Jesus Christ several times appeared to her with a sweet and gracious countenance , saying to her to rouse her courage , ‘ remember my love , that the bed of the cross on which I died for love of you was harder , narrower and more painful than that on which you are now lying' ’ . |
| 4 | In my diary I recognised it almost from the beginning , probably because I made no connection between it and non-eating , but seemed to have ascribed it to being overworked academically or being hounded into sporting activities which I resented for their profound pointlessness . |
| 5 | I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The role which I adopted for studying the process was that of non-participant observer . |
| 9 | The process which I adopted for validating my accounts of the various meetings I attended , may have undermined my stance as a non-participant . |
| 10 | This is a campaign booklet which I prepared for the RCN 's Association of Nursing Students in 1985 ; much of it also applies to returning nurses . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Er and er I say I signed the pledge never to touch intoxicating liquors , which I kept for until I was thirty five . |
| 15 | I poured him a glass of the special malt which I kept for the rare occasions of celebration or consolation in my life . |
| 16 | And so here this rural craft er thing which I wrote for which you asked me which is arriving from the last minutes , is I 'll read it out to you . |
| 17 | All through this conversation he had the impression that Frank no longer sneered ; and as he went back to Liverpool he was sure that he was more tolerant and sympathetic and ‘ was willing to grant that there was some sense in some of the things which I longed for him to share ’ . |
| 18 | The one that counted against me most was the Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee , which I worked for in the late Thirties . |
| 19 | But the rulebook provision identifies branch administration officers , which I called for in the motion . |
| 20 | At a junk-shop a little further along I saw a china snuff-box painted with ribbons in lover's-knots , and an M on the lid , which I bought for Mavis . |
| 21 | I had erm an eight ba er eight band wireless which I bought for a hundred and twenty quid when I was working . |
| 22 | Also asked him for report which I needed for Statutory Review . |
| 23 | ‘ I still use Marshalls and I 've got a 100-watt head , although it 's nowhere near as good as an early '60s 50-watt Marshall which I used for about nine years before it got stolen . |
| 24 | The outcome , according to Levi-Strauss , is a generalized circularity analogous to that which I described for the relationship in our commercial system between an author and his book-buying reader . |
| 25 | Snell bowled me a no-ball which I hit for six , then hit a four off the extra ! |
| 26 | My data here come from two conversations : one between two men , recorded for the Survey of English Usage , a large corpus-based project on the structure of educated British English , and one between two women — feminists — which I recorded for purposes of comparison . |
| 27 | Then you had a a spare man what you sent over the harvest , which you hired for a a month of occasionally they only used to come by the day . |
| 28 | You are to discuss a proposition , offering and evaluating arguments with appropriate illustration on different sides ; the arguments should lead towards a conclusion which ( 1 ) follows the arguments you have offered , and ( 2 ) matches the balance of possibilities which you argued for in your essay . |
| 29 | peoples , can affect where you , which erm , which you needed for some |
| 30 | The cast on , or hip measurement , must of course , be the same figure as that which you used for the top of your skirt program . |