Example sentences of "which [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous version was on That 's Entertainment ( TER ) — a set which I enthusiastically reviewed in CDR 11/90 . |
| 2 | The third summer I came across greenflies which I easily killed with malathion . |
| 3 | I remember being unable to connect those grainy breasts and pubic hair with anything in my own life — flesh , for instance — but the image gave me a mysterious frisson which I mistakenly took for sex . |
| 4 | Since then he has graduated to writing sequels to E.F.Benson 's Lucia novels , a book with the good title of Expecting Someone Taller ( which I must read sometime ) and another with the awful title of Who 's Afraid of Beowulf ? ( which I recently read for amusement , without success ) . |
| 5 | Looking through the contents list of the first edition of Observations , I cam across the following titles — ‘ Money from SOED ’ , ‘ Local Authority Support for Teacher Research ’ , ‘ Classroom Observation ’ and ‘ Your Observations ’ , and I realised that the report of a small scale study which I recently submitted to RIU contained all these features . |
| 6 | Force-feeding the birds of prey was Sometimes necessary — any invalid may need to be encouraged to eat — though it is a dangerous business which I never attempted with Maureen 's patients . |
| 7 | To make the picture of the bridal bouquet shown in the photograph on the facing page , I used rose leaves and some asparagus fern for the foliage , which I then softened with pieces of pink heather and small sprays of gypsophila . |
| 8 | In a conversation which she later recalled to friends Diana told him : ‘ You looked so sad when you walked up the aisle at the funeral . |
| 9 | Somehow she got herself out of the room , and up the stairs before anyone appeared to speak to her , tore off her clothes , and then hid the betraying underwear in a Gladstone bag which she later threw off Waterloo Bridge after she had left the embassy , pretending to go with Laura Parslow on her European tour , but actually having hired herself out to J. D. O'Connor , and gone to the East End . |
| 10 | ‘ So your zeide says , ’ agreed Bertha Cohen as she spread the hake , thoroughly washed and cleaned , on a wooden board and cut it into thick pieces which she liberally sprinkled with salt . |
| 11 | Indeed , Leonard can only recall a volume of the Russian writer Gogol on her shelf , by which she presumably kept in touch with her own more distant — if painful — affiliations , though influencing Leonard , perhaps , unconsciously , with Gogol 's sense of fantasy and comic genius — as well as his need to travel . ) |
| 12 | She was attracted by the privation of the life , which she always linked with virtue , and she liked its sexual freedom . |
| 13 | Her independence was further underlined by an impending marriage , news of which she now shared with Taheb . |
| 14 | Her massy hair , which she usually plaited at night or at least tied back , was all over the pillow and herself and him , covering his shoulders as well as her own . |
| 15 | These include the nucleus , which houses the chromosomes ; the tiny bomb-shaped objects called mitochondria ( which we briefly met in Figure 1 ) , filled with intricately folded membranes ; and , in the ( eukaryotic ) cells of plants , chloroplasts . |
| 16 | The Stealth combo which we recently reviewed in Guitarist smacks of your handiwork … |
| 17 | The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love . |
| 18 | Mrs Knelle and June discussed turf , which they both used for fuel . |
| 19 | When delivered ready to start running on I August 1913 , the ten ‘ SoutherN ’ buses were integrated with the L.G.O.C. fleet and allocated to Streatham Garage , from which they normally worked on route 59 , ( Oxford Circus and South Croydon ) which competed directly with Croydon Corporation trams , emphasising Croydon 's weakness in not having through running powers to work to London . |
| 20 | ‘ Generally speaking most tradesmen have some ways peculiar to themselves which they either derived from masters who taught them or from the experience of things or from something in the course of business ’ , but this did not strictly apply to undertakers , |
| 21 | The cottage which they eventually discovered at Clevedon , on the Somerset coast south of Bristol , was not quite the ‘ honeymoon cottage ’ it has often been called . |
| 22 | A second , and more interesting , possibility is that subjects are actually recalling the situations in which they personally felt at risk irrespective of any other features of the junction . |
| 23 | On the other hand , princes felt free to vent their own anger in ways which they now blocked to others . |
| 24 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 25 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 26 | The Tollemarche ladies , in bonnets and cartwheel hats , gave teas at which they coyly sipped at China tea flavoured with lemon and mint . |
| 27 | Red deer are ideal animals to be considered for such sustainable management , because they are already maintained by human intervention on open hill land , very different from the forest habitat which they once occupied in Scotland and still inhabit in the rest of Europe . |
| 28 | But they failed to do so , and when Henry returned to France he was able to clear the enemy from strongholds which they still held near Paris , including the formidable town and fortress of Meaux , before which he spent some seven months in 1421–2 . |
| 29 | We still refer to certain compounds as being ‘ hermetically sealed ’ , in reference to the touch of his magic caduceus which he latterly bestowed upon AESCULAPIUS , the god of healing . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring . |