Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [noun] [noun] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took my TV to be repaired and the shop asked for a £35 deposit which I paid . |
| 2 | Miller 's third and decisive goal came from a McAlonen free-kick which found Simon White in position to score . |
| 3 | On Thursday 2 May , I opened with a slide show which took the Cabinet through all the changes and complexities of the subject . |
| 4 | Soon they turned down a side road which led to Drumbreck House where Sir Ewen McLay lived . |
| 5 | Other such incidents were reported on Feb. 29 at Pecinje in central Albania , where a youth and a policeman died , on Feb. 25 in Pogradec ( south-east of Tirana ) , where two people suffocated in a looting crowd which also attacked shops and a textile factory , and in early March at Louchnje . |
| 6 | commissioned a new cereal plant and embarked on a capital project which will double output of breakfast cereals in France . |
| 7 | In July 1815 Hodgskin embarked on a walking tour which took him first to Paris and later to Germany , where he made a detailed study of the political and economic institutions of Hanover . |
| 8 | On 19 September Ho embarked on a packet boat which took four weeks to reach Hanoi . |
| 9 | The dissenters who met in these new places of worship belonged to a Puritan tradition which disapproved of the decoration of churches , and the interiors of meeting-houses were thus kept bare and plain . |
| 10 | This led to a field study which at least seemed to locate not only the site but the probable outlines of the building . |
| 11 | New industries and housebuilding in the south and east of the country led to a growth rate which rivalled that of the mid-Victorian era , and apart from a minor dip in the statistics in 1937 — 8 the sustained restructuring and recovery of the economy created many new jobs and reduced rates of unemployment in all but the most depressed areas dependent on the declining staple industries . |
| 12 | He lived on an invalidity pension which came as a weekly giro : £52.10 . |
| 13 | He went through a schools system which made art compulsory , failing the subject at O-level but passed with flying colours to gain an Alevel in sculpture . |
| 14 | Perhaps the best illustrations available are of the man who fell into a steel tank which had contained radioactive waste . |
| 15 | This meeting coincided with a London smog which caused 700 deaths and so was cited as evidence of the urgency with which air pollution problems should be tackled . |
| 16 | Their dominance outside the Americas grew into a world supremacy which reached a climax at the beginning of the first world war and began to crumble before the end of the second . |
| 17 | It resulted in a Government compromise which , though not entirely satisfactory , enabled the peasant to realize the benefit of joint action in a just cause and forced Government employees to understand the conditions of the peasants , |
| 18 | Proposals put forward by Mitterrand on July 14 , 1989 , that the right of referral to the Constitutional Council ( Conseil constitutionel ) should be extended to individual citizens resulted in a draft law which was approved by the Council of Ministers on March 28 , 1990 . |
| 19 | At the age of three or four I went to a nursery school which was about three or four doors away from our house . |
| 20 | Lydia skirted it and took to a mountain path which meandered nonchalantly between rowan and hazel trees before stopping to present the traveller with a view of the valley 's close . |
| 21 | She looked at a Swatch watch which she wore upside down on her right wrist . |
| 22 | In James Callaghan 's famous speech at Ruskin College , Oxford , in October 1976 , from which the Great Debate emerged , he spoke of a school curriculum which would aim ‘ to equip children … for a lively , constructive place in society , and also fit them for a job of work ’ . |
| 23 | The now defunct Battersea Power Station ran on a CHP principle which illustrates that it is feasible . |
| 24 | A few weeks later Perdita sat under a jacaranda tree which was scattering purply-blue petals all over the parched brown ground . |
| 25 | Throughout his childhood , Matthew can recall feeling angry just once — when his father unwittingly trod on a model boat which Matthew had spent several weeks constructing . |
| 26 | The Collector sat on an oak throne which had been chipped out of the mud rampart for fuel , but had not yet been used , though it had lost one of its front legs . |