Example sentences of "which [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sweat was dripping from her face on to her breasts which were already glistening with water like orb-shaped fruit in the rain . |
| 2 | One cold evening , Seb returned from the cottage to Handley Farm along lanes , the banks of which were already glistening with frost . |
| 3 | When Gan was complete , the Britannias , which were just coming into service with the RAF , would be able to reach Singapore without overflying India . |
| 4 | When they were in the market she insisted on his buying a pair of white loons , which were just coming into fashion . |
| 5 | The clearest pattern was that for local history and archaeology ( both counted among ‘ Social Studies ’ ) which were rapidly gaining in popularity , with 58 courses between them in 1957–58 compared to only 26 four years earlier . |
| 6 | He took Coleman several times through Sami Jafaar 's part in the Fawaz Younis affair and the circumstances of Jafaar 's subsequent posting to Switzerland for Operation polar Cap , which was just getting under way as the debriefing took place . |
| 7 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 8 | ‘ He was extremely drunk and in a stupor when he attempted the crime — which was never going to work . |