Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This arrangement left Hortense with the responsibility of her younger son 's education , which she decided to entrust to a private tutor . |
| 2 | Following negotiations with the police most of the settlers left Silwan , abandoning all but one of the houses which they said belonged to a Jewish family evicted during riots in 1930 . |
| 3 | It was windy and the cedar , which he had likened to a galleon and Zosie to a witch , danced witch-like , its branches arms and leaping legs and flying skirts . |
| 4 | The robber at Bath Road had grabbed £45,000 after shooting the two guards and made his initial getaway on a moped , found , say the prosecution , at the point at which he 'd switched to a getaway car driven by the second man . |
| 5 | As he passed through a small piazza there was a shout and a boy appeared at a window holding a bulging plastic shopping bag which he let drop to a friend in the street who stood , arms raised to catch it . |