Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 2 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |
| 3 | There was a carpet into which you seemed to sink several inches , an ornate desk in the style of the French Empire , a huge couch , upholstered in grey and scarlet , and a number of big soft armchairs in the same pattern . |
| 4 | which you decided had some prospects of being reclaimed . |
| 5 | She was the chairman of the Forest of Arden Young Conservatives which she had joined three years previously at her mother 's prompting . |
| 6 | They came to the ‘ eye ’ of this storm , below a sullen , winter sky , and at once Tallis began to recognize the deep canyon which she had hollowed those days before , with Morthen . |
| 7 | As Shama talked , Hussa added a reminder here and there as though they were stories which she had heard many times before . |
| 8 | Sally Ann Cattell died in a stolen car which crashed during a police chase last March , but the SSD denied reports that she had absconded from the children 's home , St John 's in Erdington , to which she had moved three days before the incident . |
| 9 | Alexandra sat down at the huge scrubbed table at which she had watched twenty years of bread and pastry being made . |
| 10 | On 23 September 1945 , at the same church in which she had wed six years earlier , Doris married Lionel Ingram , a grocery store manager who had been an Army sergeant and whose father was an Admiralty official . |
| 11 | I remember that we did n't have a tap in the house but used a communal tap from which we had to fill two barrels in our garden . |
| 12 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 13 | Ukraine , Kazakhstan and Byelarus , the three former Soviet republics in addition to Russia with nuclear weapons on their territories , signed a protocol to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) on May 23 in which they pledged to eliminate nuclear weapons by the end of the decade . |
| 14 | contribution will have been abolished , those on income support will still receive that extra money , which they started to receive two years ago ? |
| 15 | In the course of their literature search , on 16 April Palmer found a 1978 paper by the three Soviets — B. Mamyrin , L. Khabarin and V. Yudenich — in which they reported finding excessive amounts of helium-3 in various metals . |
| 16 | This schematic characterization , however , does not do justice either to the manner in which they attempted to keep both poles in play at once , nor to the way in which they came to concede the impossibility of the theoretical projects which they undertook . |
| 17 | He had a wire basket in his left hand , in which he had placed two tins of pineapple cubes . |
| 18 | While I was in the Gulf , one of our teachers vanished temporarily after a call to a colleague in which he had made disparaging remarks about members of the local royal family . |
| 19 | He had preached a sermon in which he had said these words : ‘ It is dangerous to be a Christian in our nation . |
| 20 | In fact he seemed to have lost interest in the book before he had completed it — the last two chapters are haphazardly constructed — and he padded it out with three radio talks on " The Unity of European Culture " which he had given two years before . |
| 21 | But he seemed anxious to show me his own poetry , with which he had filled several notebooks . |
| 22 | He flipped open the book whose pages were filled with her beautiful , careful script , which he had seen many times on the shopping lists which she had made up under Matey 's instructions . |
| 23 | This was the name of the place which he had visited five years before ; he had gone almost in the role of a pilgrim , since it was there that Nicholas Ferrar established a small Anglican religious community in the seventeenth century — a familial life led in poverty , discipline and prayer which was extirpated by Parliamentary troops in 1646 . |
| 24 | Another factor was undoubtedly Layton 's own involvement with Greece , which went back to 1951 , about which he had written many poems . |
| 25 | Chairman David Nairn thanked Grant for the open manner with which he had answered these questions and brought the first day 's business proceedings to and end . |
| 26 | After the affidavits one of Kesselring 's subordinates , a man named Krumhaar , was cross-examined about an operation in which he had had twelve men from the village of Burgo Techino shot because two of his men had been severely wounded by ‘ terrorists ’ during a parade through the town . |
| 27 | It was accepted quite early on that a seller would be bound by any description by which he had sold specific goods ( Shepherd v Kain ( 1822 ) 5 B&A 240 ) . |
| 28 | He produced another sheet of paper on which he had typed some notes . |
| 29 | No doubt Mr. Spencer was pleased to note that S.M.E.T. Nos. 36–51 were equipped with track brakes which he had invented many years ago at Bradford . |
| 30 | In 1981 Surridge became a genial and hearty president of the club for which he had taken 464 wickets ( 29.64 ) and 360 catches ( 58 in 1952 and 56 in 1955 ) and scored 3697 runs ( 13.02 ) . |