Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they went downstairs , Joanna said , ‘ I 've got one dress which I wore to the veterinary congress banquet . |
| 2 | ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character . |
| 3 | The relevance of the lengthy preliminary exposition which I devoted to the modern Freudian theory of society should now begin to become apparent . |
| 4 | She wrapped them in a piece of pale yellow silk which she tied up with a purple ribbon , and enclosed them in a square biscuit tin which she pushed to the very back of the buffet , behind the piles of tablecloths and napkins . |
| 5 | Then she produced a large green glass vase , which she attached to the closed orifice of the net . |
| 6 | At Cromwell Road the students made use of the first floor which had a magnificent music room and a ballroom which they loaned to the Senior Common Room for the purposes of the annual Royal College Charity Ball which rivalled the Chelsea Arts Ball . |
| 7 | In the western provinces , where the Christian population was overwhelmingly Catholic or in communion with Rome , peasants were refusing to fulfil the economic obligations which they owed to the Orthodox clergy . |
| 8 | Again , few long-standing customers will surely want to compromise their future bargaining position by revealing to the court the true weight which they gave to the various considerations before them prior to the placing of interim contracts with the employer . |
| 9 | Indeed , the mechanical clocks which they presented to the Chinese rulers were received with surprised delight . |
| 10 | The only redeeming feature was that he and Shan Hackett had lunch in Monty 's personal mess and ran up a goodly drinks bill which they charged to the teetotal general . |
| 11 | Some were closely linked to him through the goods and provisions which they supplied to the royal household . |
| 12 | He described three miasms ( syphilis , sycosis and psora ) which he related to the venereal diseases ( syphilis and gonorrhoea ) and the skin itch ( akin to psoriasis ) respectively . |
| 13 | By the time the news reached Lyons , Anselm would have been Hugh 's guest for about six months , and the letter which he wrote to the new pope shows a remarkable advance on the letter he had written to Urban II two years earlier . |
| 14 | In the letter of resignation which he conveyed to the Constitutional Council on Jan. 11 , Chadli revealed that he had dissolved ( on Jan. 4 as it later transpired ) by presidential decree the National Popular Assembly . |
| 15 | Eyvør woke up and made food-begging noises , so the Birdman finished his story and cut up some more strips of herring which he fed to the little bird . |
| 16 | Now sixty years old , failing in health , and without papal backing , Winchelsey was unlikely to present the new king with the problems which he offered to the old one , but he did not hesitate to support the barons against Gaveston . |
| 17 | He was also a superb phonetician , and a master of mimicry , a technique which he used to the full as a raconteur . |
| 18 | Disappearing into a back room , he emerged carrying a gold watch and chain which he handed to the two policemen . |
| 19 | These seemingly effortless designs were the cause of much exasperation , as Minton describes in the satire ‘ Doing the Book of the Film or ‘ How I Ruined My Life ’ which he contributed to the Royal College 's magazine , Ark . |
| 20 | The bruiser got up again and bought a large measure of whisky , which he gave to the bearded man , who made short work of it . |
| 21 | This culminated in an interview which he gave to the Illustrated India Weekly in which he criticized Prime Minister V. P. Singh as " weak " and repeated allegations of corruption against two other Cabinet ministers , Arun Nehru and Arif Mohammed Khan . |
| 22 | Indeed overall , he says surprisingly little about Grace and next to nothing about the sacramental life ; for these reasons one might regret the title which he gave to the three books gathered into one — Mere Christianity — for it implies that he has written a sort of mini-Summa or encyclopaedia of theology . |
| 23 | Panels lit up and he reached for a number of X-ray plates which he attached to the luminescent plastic . |
| 24 | At the Kazan " requiem for the victims of Bezdna ( which took place in the emotionally charged atmosphere of Palm Sunday ) he stepped forward at the end of the service with a commemorative address in which he referred to the dead peasants as " friends , killed for the people " . |
| 25 | Matthew raised over £1,1OO in sponsorship money , which he donated to the Multiple Sclerosis Society . |
| 26 | Paul Thompson ( 1967 ) sees the triumph of Labour as a constructive coalescence of the mature proletarian class consciousness which emerged with the displacement of small-scale production and an effective LLP , while Julia Bush ( 1978 ) , concentrating on the experience of East London , argues that during the first world war socialist activity and the growing confidence and strength of the trades unions enabled the LLP to establish a solid base which it exploited to the full when hostilities ceased . |
| 27 | Shafts sunk below it however , had to be pumped or baled , though the water needed only to be raised to Deep Adit , through which it ran to the open fell side . |