Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] by " in BNC.
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1 | They are documents of all sorts which were given to me by my father or which I found among his papers after his death in 1968 . |
2 | ‘ You have some papers , Fagin , ’ said Mr Brownlow quietly , ‘ which were given to you by Monks to look after . ’ |
3 | It was found among a collection of magazines , news-sheets and leaflets which were sent to us by one of the researchers for our archives on feminism in the 20th century . |
4 | Most of the submissions which were addressed to us by Mr. Persaud took matters no further . |
5 | Incidentally , the comedian Des O'Connor owns a guitar which was given to him by Holly , while Buddy was on tour in the UK . |
6 | The Jews ' special characteristics derive from the religion which was given to them by Moses , which stressed one God who was invisible and would not allow images of Himself to be made for worship . |
7 | She left with the best wishes of all her colleagues — plus a colour TV which was presented to her by Tom Gorrie , Manager , Taurus . |
8 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
9 | At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food . |
10 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
11 | Er you 'll be aware from the letter which was circulated to you by Steve , that we had a significant problem with water leakage down the our pipe , which joins the mains water supply at the memorial , war memorial . |
12 | I can hardly forget the story about Devil 's Bridge at Acklam ( Echo March 26 ) which was told to me by my father and handed down to him by his father . |
13 | ‘ He strongly disagrees with what was said about him by the Accounts Commission , ’ Mr Tait added . |
14 | In the surrounding countryside farming continues in a way that is very little different from what was left to us by the Romans , though sunflowers have recently begun to replace some of the olive trees . |
15 | What they witnessed , and what was recreated for us by the Ulster Youth Dance Company in Stranmillis College Theatre at the weekend was a spectacle far more disturbing and revolutionary . |
16 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
17 | But whatever was lost for me by that death I still saw , and see , love as the only real world . |