Example sentences of "which [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , I dropped the paintbrush , which of course went down the loo . |
| 2 | SAC announced a requirement for some 250 B-70s , but on August 10 , 1959 the Air Force announced the cancellation of the highly expensive boron fuel , which in turn brought about the demise of the GE YJ93-5 engine . |
| 3 | [ Her anger brings on an attack which in turn brings on the birth pangs . |
| 4 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 5 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |