Example sentences of "[noun] which [vb past] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 2 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 3 | In Germany even the most ‘ respectable ’ workers were pressed into the ranks of the proletariat by the distance which separated them from the bourgeoisie , and the strength of intermediate classes . |
| 4 | More important , they were granted a plenary indulgence which freed them from the terrors of purgatory and hell , and held out to them the promise of eternal life in heaven . |
| 5 | During the years between 1813 and 1830 Serbia , under Miloš , had experienced a social , cultural and economic transformation which brought it from the medieval obscurity of a declining oriental despotism to the threshold of modern European statehood . |
| 6 | Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom . |
| 7 | Carrying a heavy basket and bundle , Tess was walking towards the hills which divided her from the Vale , her place of birth . |
| 8 | She was sent out on an adventure which took her from the Annunciation to pentecost , and the questions and uncertainties built up . |
| 9 | Gray made more than 600 Football League appearances in his playing career and shared in Darlington 's double championship triumph which took them from the GM Vauxhall Conference to the Third Division in successive seasons . |