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Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] [verb] in the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	but I , I 'd like to go and ask there some time whether they did Oh that 's the one for sale which I saw advertised in the paper today
2	I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump .
3	It looked and tasted exactly the same as the previous day 's meal which I had sampled in the Superintendent 's office — a medium-hot vegetable curry containing a mixture of root and leafy vegetables .
4	We at Holy Cross were able to have a happy relationship with the Baptists at Judson College , and I was invited to give a regular course in the comparative study of religion , which I attempted to do in the way which would now be described as that of dialogue .
5	In this case , the bouquet was a curved shower , the shape of which I tried to recreate in the picture shown opposite .
6	Include also those items which you wanted to have in the past but dismissed because you thought you could not have them or simply forgot about them .
7	They hoped that the dynamic forces released by socialism would generate new wealth , enabling Britain to stride the world once more in a continuing and -equal partnership with the United States , rather than as the American satellite which she had become in the latter phases of the Second World War .
8	She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards .
9	She put up her hands in a gesture reminiscent of the one which she had made in the attic , when she had been still fearful of him and of all men , but the gesture was as much for Havvie as for him .
10	In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney .
11	She reached into her saddlebag and drew out a small cloth containing white clay which she had taken from Wynne-Jones 's lodge and which she had used in the making of Moondream .
12	When Aunt Grove died in 1840 , she left money to fund the school for poor children which she had founded in the village .
13	Of course it had belonged among those unhappy mad thoughts which she had had in the last days .
14	Although smaller and lighter than the 7.62 Self Loading Rifles which we had used in the Territorial Army , its strength lay in its high velocity rounds and accuracy .
15	Erm so we we asked and asked and asked could we change back to the old nutrients which we did do in the early part of December , and lo and behold , suddenly there was n't a problem .
16	The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent .
17	In the meantime I have enclosed a statement which we helped to prepare in the run up to the Earth Summit .
18	Marx 's and Engels 's rejection of idealism , however , is qualified in that they also reject the crude materialism which they saw manifested in the work of such writers as the German socialist Feuerbach .
19	The apparent ineffectiveness of naval forces , particularly when contrasted with the vital role which they came to play in the sixteenth century , may have turned students against the subject .
20	All the findings of opinion polls and other surveys suggested that the overwhelming majority of ordinary citizens were convinced that the period of their nation 's history through which they had lived in the forty-odd years since the end of the war in 1945 , was a time of comfort and content .
21	The persisting economic recession and the administration 's lack of a clear domestic agenda continued to damage the standing of Bush , whose opinion poll ratings had fallen dramatically since the 80 per cent high which they had achieved in the immediate aftermath of the Gulf war .
22	First , the Conservatives who were in favour of family allowances mostly advocated contributory or employer-financed schemes , and the grounds for the Labour movement 's opposition to such schemes , which they had voiced in the 1920s , were still valid .
23	Peasants came to her to be reminded of a particular tale the details of which they had mislaid in the mists of childhood ; more sophisticated members of the community , less concerned with the tale than the teller , made the journey to Elling in an effort to keep alive a tradition that had died elsewhere .
24	As they could no longer live in trees and needed the plants with which they had co-evolved in the more seasonal habitats in the beginnings of agriculture , at least vegeculture , those who did not cultivate had to trade .
25	The fortunes of the coffee and tea industries have already been discussed above , and it uncertain whether Kandyans in coffee districts had by 1900 recovered the standard of living which they had attained in the early 1870s .
26	The Polynesians , according to this way of seeing things , had a system of kinship terms , which indicated , not the marriage system which they practised , but the marriage system which they had practised in the past .
27	They also left thousands of pounds worth of computer equipment which they had stolen in the raid on the Coulby Newham surgery .
28	Most of the group members were quite young , Right-On , middle-class , intellectual , and had their own particular obsession which they wanted to see in the paper .
29	His solemn burial was at Constantinople alongside the cenotaphs of the twelve apostles which he had placed in the church of the apostles on the city 's highest hill .
30	For even if the setting did not have the same grandeur and the leading characters did not have the same epic cast as twenty years earlier , the role that de Gaulle himself had to play was at least as arduous as that which he had played in the Second World War .