Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Like Auerbach a scholar of Germanic origins who finished his career in the United States , Spitzer developed , in contrast to him , a method of stylistic analysis which concentrated firmly on the individual text .
2 At a meeting on Aug. 29 Gorbachev and Yeltsin endorsed a plan produced by the commission which drew heavily on the Russian " 500 days " programme .
3 A memo by a lieutenant-colonel on the staff ( whose signature is illegible ) to the Director of Military Operations at MEHQ gives an insight into what was in the pipeline for L Detachment , ‘ which went out on the last operation hurriedly and ill organised .
4 Above were three correspondingly small bedrooms , two of which looked out on the narrow and often gloomy street .
5 After four attempts to set our 45lb CQR in the thin sand-over-rock bottom , we gave up and put out a couple of 40lb Danforths , both of which bit hard on the first attempt .
6 Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue .
7 It was left to Western businessmen to manufacture CCCP T-shirts which ended up on the Soviet black market , an acute case of carrying coals to Newcastle .
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