Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There it was again : that feeling of being mesmerised as obediently she met the ice-blue gaze which devoured her . |
| 2 | A fit and healthy 10 year old , he was playing in the lounge with his brother when he fell on a knitting needle , which pierced his neck and punctured his spinal cord . |
| 3 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 4 | Another social problem which concerned him was the lack of housing both for the poor and for the tourists . |
| 5 | But it was the possibility of attack from ships which concerned him most ; and he proposed that he and Moray make a survey , by boat , to consider what , if anything , might be done protectively . |
| 6 | It was the eponymity which concerned him . |
| 7 | As he explains in the ‘ Epistle to the Reader ’ , he began it after a discussion in which it occurred to him and his friends that they might get further with the problems which concerned them if they were first to ‘ examine our own abilities , and see , what objects our understandings were , or were not fitted to deal with ’ . |
| 8 | Lineage shaikhs designated one of their number to be a section shaikh , to represent them in affairs which concerned them all . |
| 9 | Part of the impetus had been the growing frustration felt by women in the voluntary work committees that they and the issues which concerned them tended to be elbowed aside by men . |
| 10 | I was also interested in the possible help for tension , worry and lowering my blood pressure which had lately begun to rise and which concerned me greatly . |
| 11 | Angry too that she had not been trusted with knowledge which concerned her so much . |
| 12 | Henry VI gave them a court leet in 1451 , which concerned itself largely with the minor social offences common to any medieval town ; poor-quality weaving and leaving dead animals lying about the streets seem to have occurred fairly commonly . |
| 13 | Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships . |
| 14 | Dope was n't , but the drug legal advice service ‘ Release ’ which concerned itself with the increasing number of busts — and junkies — began operating in West London . |
| 15 | We are not here concerned with the elusive though connected fact that causal circumstances in a different sense explain their effects , that sense which concerned us earlier in connection with causal priority . |
| 16 | I knew he was so incensed he could n't control himself ; I could n't blame him for the fury which inhabited him . |
| 17 | One friend said that , in later life , Eliot could never bear to mention Vivien 's named and another has written of his feelings of " guilt and horror , which haunted him daily " and how once he observed , " I can never forget anything " . |
| 18 | His most enduring memory , which haunted his imagination for much of the inter-war period , was of his time as a nineteen-year-old officer in 1918 when he led an action to capture enemy trenches at Epehy . |
| 19 | Pulled from the river with her nightdress apparently wound around her head , she provided Magritte with an image which haunted his art and inspired the long and diverse series of compositions in which the head is concealed by a veil or an apple , metamorphosed into a plank of wood , or shown only from the back view . |
| 20 | Its first concern is the phenomenon which , years earlier , had so intrigued Hobbes , and which engendered his interest in motion : the phenomenon of sense . |
| 21 | In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order . |
| 22 | At the same time , it was those with the highest level of education who were best able to draw from particular grievances — against their own foreman or management — a more general analysis of the system which oppressed them . |
| 23 | As herds of humans dressed as cows ( at least , that 's what our eyes told us ) wander up and down Bleecker Street , we slump and watch The Shams , three women dressed as men , play an acoustic set which publicised their sexual fantasies . |
| 24 | Dimity ran the house , it appeared , and it was her slender arms that bore in the coal scuttles , the heavy shopping baskets and the laden trays , while Ella 's powerful hands designed wood blocks , mixed paint and stamped the lengths of materials which draped their little cottage . |
| 25 | His friends put two and two together , and so did the media , which beseiged his home by telephone and helicopter . |
| 26 | He 'd made his fortune selling baths , bidets and toilets , which lent him little by way of mystique . |
| 27 | Camra is also worried by proposals from the Dutch brewers Heineken and their rivals , the makers of Grolsch , to buy into the makers of Pilsner Urquell ( Original ) , based in the Czech town which lent its name to the brewing process . |
| 28 | In this illustration the personal sector channelled its surplus of £500 million to the financial sector ( banks , insurance companies , building societies , etc. ) and the remaining funds originated from the foreign sector which lent its £1,000 million surplus derived from the excess of its exports over imports . |
| 29 | HARRY NEUBAUER , who has died aged 59 , was a psychiatrist of multifarious qualities — not least an exuberant personality which lent his earnest profession a splash of much-needed colour . |
| 30 | But , whatever their knowledge , of far greater importance in official thinking was the strategic value of a power source which lent itself naturally to centralized control , which was operated by a well paid , reliable work-force and which would continue to keep the miners at bay . |