Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow Dr Neil 's touch did not seem to affect her as badly as that of most men , even though in the cab home sitting so near to him nearly brought on the kind of faintness which she had felt on the walk home from church . |
| 2 | She did not pause for an answer , but bent down and snatched up a roll of paper which she had placed on the floor beside her when she first sat down . |
| 3 | She would drive over to Bracken Cottage this weekend and get some of the garden tools which she 'd noted on the inventory . |
| 4 | She remembered only two things about New York with affection : the man at Pennsylvania Station , perched high in a little glass box , who announced the trains in the rhythm of a square dance , and the man who returned her purse which she 'd dropped on the platform — a black man . |
| 5 | There was straw and an old woven blanket some herdsman had left there , with a heap of tools ; it smelt savoury and sharp inside , like the smell of a birth ; she was melting , the light blinked around him , and there was sheepskin under them ; her name , which she found carved on the stone , carved by him during vigils while he waited for her there in the days before she could come , was edged in light . |
| 6 | We stayed only one night in Luxor before turning downriver again to visit the great temples of Abydos and Dendera which we had passed on the barge . |
| 7 | The weather was better for the flight back along the north coast , and we got views of the 8,000-foot-plus Picos de Europa which we 'd missed on the way down . |
| 8 | Since the Survey 's seventh question asked visitors to comment on the exhibitions which they had seen on the day of their visit , it was possible , by noting the number of replies which related to each of the three exhibitions , to discover the number of visitors attracted by each exhibition , whatever their assessment of it . |
| 9 | He spent one night in New York and then , nursing a cold which he had contracted on the boat , he went straight to Boston — with his relatives , in particular his two sisters and his late brother 's family , and with old friends like Emily Hale and Djuna Barnes , he could still enjoy an affectionate intimacy which he seemed to lack in England . |
| 10 | This point is of course another criticism of the individualist philosophies of utilitarians and of economists who saw early man as a kind of Robinson Crusoe trying to interact with nature in isolation and according to ideas and institutions which he had created on the spot . |
| 11 | At this date the king demanded that the archbishop should confirm some military tenancies which he had created on the archbishop 's lands during the vacancy . |
| 12 | A visitor brought two of these which he had found on the shore near Saligo Bay in the summer of 1980 , for me to identify . |
| 13 | A visitor brought two of these which he had found on the shore near Saligo Bay in the summer of 1980 , for me to identify . |
| 14 | Hall hurled the stone weighing about 4lbs , which he had lifted on the way from the beach , from a distance of about 30ft , which struck Mr Healy . |
| 15 | I later interviewed the bemused recordist , and established he had been given two portable stereo tape recorders , which he had laid on the ground pointing in opposite directions . |
| 16 | We dealt with this by getting someone to stand at his head and reinforcing the message with the verbal command ‘ Stand ’ which he had learned on the lunge . |
| 17 | A feeling of malaise which had beset him earlier , and which he had blamed on the news from Oxford , persisted . |
| 18 | The finger which he had burnt on the incinerator was in addition giving him trouble and would not tolerate pressure . |
| 19 | He bent down to his briefcase which he 'd left on the floor , took out a folder , turned back the pages , and handed it to her . |
| 20 | As early as 1886 its legal sub-committee had drawn up a whole series of amendments to the criminal law which it wanted to see on the statute book . |