Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what kind of battle ? she wondered apprehensively , discovering an exit from this bedroom which led on to a terrace , with an archway framing a velvety night sky filled with bright silver stars . |
| 2 | Jarvis managed to bowl only at half pace in the match against Hampshire at Basingstoke which petered out into a draw yesterday and he is still being troubled by a sore hamstring . |
| 3 | Stalls were set up to a considerable depth on either side of the main road , which swelled out like a sausage shaped balloon for half a mile or so and then closed in again . |
| 4 | He 'd shifted a lot of linen , some bags of which weighed in like a circus fat lady . |
| 5 | ‘ This was a key issue which came out in a consultation exercise we held when we published our interim report on practical training in 1991 . ’ |
| 6 | A hint of child abuse may seem to be imparted by his account of a Gothic moment which came about during a walk with her father , at nightfall , in a setting of peasants and forests . |
| 7 | This statutory definition was originally formulated under s15(2) of SOGIT 1973 ( now substituted by s192(3) ( a ) , Sched 4 of CCA 1974 ) which came about as a response to the demand for reform in this area . |
| 8 | It was one of the three schools which came about as a result of pressure from adult deaf societies . |
| 9 | Then she saw that , in her haste to leave the hall , she had fled to the nearest exit , which opened on to a passage running along the side of the great-room . |
| 10 | There was a full page article announcing Darwinism is dead , which turned out as a matter of fact to be a reprint of an article which had appeared some months earlier in the Sunday Times of this country , erm which in fact was based very largely on some work by a young man called Steele , which none of us , I think , believed at the time , and which was since turned out clearly to have been mistaken . |
| 11 | The bells were clanging in the high tower which soared up to a steel blue sky . |
| 12 | We 'd get to one poem four or five days into the war , or after The Belgrano or Sir Galahad , and then you have ‘ Lie Still ’ … which is sombre , like a tribute , and then the others , like ‘ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ’ , which started off as a camp throwaway as a tango ; but the poems put together with an orchestra gives them much more depth . ’ |
| 13 | In effect , the transplant hospital , which started out as a centre for wounded Australian troops in the First World War and was then used as a TB sanatorium , exists in its own world , untainted by the big bad world outside . |
| 14 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm stunned that something which started out as a game turned so quickly into something so frighteningly real . ’ |
| 16 | He has two grown-up children , Dean and Roberta , by his first marriage to a former model , Tina , which broke up in a blaze of publicity after he left her for Stephanie . |
| 17 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
| 18 | We have setpiece debates on the European Community budget — we had one in only 90 minutes last week , which worked out at a rate of about half a billion pounds per minute of our debate . |
| 19 | was one which they which fell down with a crash . |
| 20 | Cowsfield Gate , in Whiteparish Wiltshire is now a handful of cottages which grew up around a toll house after 1767 when the Salisbury to Romsey road was turnpiked and re-aligned . |
| 21 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 22 | Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later . |
| 23 | The vote followed a row which blew up during a meeting between five ambulance workers and Mrs Bottomley in her constituency , South West Surrey , on Friday . |
| 24 | For a while the man stood muttering and cursing as he clanked his heavy ring of keys , but at last he found the right one and they stepped on to the moonlit track which ran down like a strip of silver through the overhanging trees . |
| 25 | So you could literally have a situation in which you could live say er er a woman could er live er you know a mile from the state line and in one state er abortion er could be something which ended up with a doctor in prison for life , in another state , across the state line , it could be something which was er you know er provided free of charge by the state public health authorities . |