Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such large quantities of water have been diverted for irrigation of the crop that the rivers which once ran into the sea no longer reach it . |
| 2 | And I can not believe that the two did not exchange at length here , passing the very threshold of such a dominant historic occasion , an event which still burnt into the consciousness of all Scots at the time . |
| 3 | The priest completed his circuit and disappeared behind the altar screen , leaving in his wake a long trail of incense which gradually mounted into the roof and lost itself among the ostrich eggs and silver censers suspended there . |
| 4 | However , we decided to try it with the food and tucked into some quite outstanding starters , including terrine of foie gras with wild mushrooms and some grilled bites of red mullet with caviar which positively leapt into the mouth . |
| 5 | Marcus reached the staircase , which also descended into the living-room , and looked vaguely back . |
| 6 | Manuel and Eva clearly loved their dogs , and the native Bajan Blackbelly sheep which also wandered into the bar ( although one young lamb was still being housetrained ! ) . |
| 7 | He was a convinced evolutionist and he thought that one could draw a line from the Egyptian lotus to the Greek palmette and from the Greek palmette to the acanthus which then developed into the arabesque like a biological affiliation . |
| 8 | It wrecked a Mercedes-Benz car driving in front of the bus and blew out the windows of the bus , which then crashed into the back of the Mercedes . |