Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was housekeeper to a nano , a dwarf , called Appio who was always dressed in a suit with baggy trousers which made his rather stout figure look even broader . |
| 2 | In later years the shadow of the Counter-Reformation overcast his work with a new seriousness which found its most impressive expression in the Sixth Book of six-part madrigals ( 1595 ) with ‘ Se quel dolor ’ and the Ninth Book of five-part madrigals ( 1599 ) with ‘ Solo e pensoso ’ . |
| 3 | For Labour as for ‘ middle opinion ’ as a whole , increased State intervention and central direction went hand in hand with faith in a more rational and ordered treatment of social questions — an essentially technocratic approach — which found its most characteristic expression in the enthusiasm for ‘ planning ’ . |
| 4 | As he spoke I was very conscious of the smile which transformed his usually impassive face . |
| 5 | Hawke 's squadron , 28 strong , now bore down upon the French from windward at top speed , all sails set , and around 2.30 in the afternoon the eight warships in the van opened fire on the French rear division , the start of a fierce engagement which caused its most powerful unit , the 80-gun Formidable , to surrender , and three 74-gun warships , the Héros , the Superbe and the Thesée to founder . |
| 6 | It is the overall speed of the articulation which was so surprising , and which caused us so much difficulty at the stage of transcription . |
| 7 | Then , with skirt high and legs apart , she rolled back the thick outer lips of her quim with her thumbs to reveal the secret pink sponginess which surrounded her most intimate entrance . |
| 8 | It accounts in fact for the new facial type which begins to make its appearance in his work during this year , l and which reached its most precise definition in the work executed by Picasso on his return from Gosol ( a village in the province of Lerida in Spain , where he spent the early part of the summer of 1906 ) , notably in the Portrait of Gertrude Stein . |
| 9 | She was carrying a small tapestry bag which contained her rather crumpled manuscript . |
| 10 | It seems reasonable to suspect that a certain political and military stability had first to be achieved and that the capacity to make law required consensus and mature counsel among the wiser men of the realm who advised the king which transcended his purely personal ambition . |
| 11 | A simple enough rule which struck his rather undeveloped mind with the force of divine inspiration . |
| 12 | He was , to be fair , in a position which left him little real freedom of action . |
| 13 | It was this which fuelled their increasingly vigorous reaction to the restrictions which a nervous government imposed on student activity and university autonomy . |