Example sentences of "which [verb] [pron] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a very young child he witnessed scenes which equalled anything from the imagination of Rider Haggard . |
| 2 | Carrying a heavy basket and bundle , Tess was walking towards the hills which divided her from the Vale , her place of birth . |
| 3 | As though she had seen something which disturbed her from the window of the apartment . |
| 4 | For a sensational week he published a news-sheet which libelled everyone from the governor 's wife to the assistant chaplain , including both together . |
| 5 | Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom . |
| 6 | In Germany even the most ‘ respectable ’ workers were pressed into the ranks of the proletariat by the distance which separated them from the bourgeoisie , and the strength of intermediate classes . |
| 7 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 8 | 'T WAS that , mama reckoned , which preserved me from the pestilence ! ’ |
| 9 | More than 3,000 people joined Government programmes and 504,056 receive help under a series of schemes which exclude them from the unemployment count . |
| 10 | The literary text may negotiate with its containment ( as Shakespeare 's do ) , but its contemporary subversive force has been compromised by the political dominance of state power which excludes it from the centre and places it on the margins of socially sanctioned institutions . |
| 11 | He had clipped up his shirtsleeves with steel bracelets above the elbow and was swathed in a coarse apron which had once been white and which covered him from the knot of his tie to his ankles . |
| 12 | She was sent out on an adventure which took her from the Annunciation to pentecost , and the questions and uncertainties built up . |
| 13 | Kim Hyon Hui , 27 , a convicted North Korean saboteur , received a presidential pardon on April 12 which exempted her from the death penalty . |
| 14 | Of course he belongs to the class which dedicates itself from the beginning , single-mindedly to literature , but yet not in the way we would think of . |
| 15 | It makes sure that the family of the deceased director receive fair payment for his or her shares , which saves them from the problem of having to find an alternative buyer . |
| 16 | It may seem that if we succeed in adapting our values to such disturbances instead of losing them altogether , it is because we still retain some vestige of a Christian and liberal moral tradition a memory of ‘ Do unto others … ’ at the roots of social habit , which saves us from the collapse into competing egoisms into which deepening conflicts are perpetually driving us . |