Example sentences of "which [verb] [be] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He labours scornfully for this Simon Giles , faintly comforted by a corner in Classical studies which has been granted him for reasons to do with the firm 's image . |
| 2 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 3 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 4 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 5 | The Achilles ' tendon which had been bothering him for weeks finally gave out amid a sympathetic cheer and a great forward ambled to the sideline and out of the match with an hour gone . |
| 6 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 7 | Thus in one moment the veil which had been preventing me from seeing you as you are had been lifted . |
| 8 | When will the Department publish the review of the social fund , which we have long awaited , and when will he restore the right of the poorest in our society to a grant for essential items such as clothing , furniture and cookers , which have been denied them under the current system ? |