Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 2 | A most extraordinary ebullient , character , he was one of those lovable teddy-bears , but highly charged with emotion which spilled out at the slightest touch . |
| 3 | A small boy armed with a stick tried to beat off two hungry-looking dogs which sniffed suspiciously at the dead beggar 's bloody feet . |
| 4 | Each tier was held in place by tiny press studs which sprang apart at the least pressure . |
| 5 | The mountain , eleven granite peaks rising between the gentle flow of the Dee in the north and the foaming River Muick in the south , was a presence which pulled everlastingly at the primitive senses of the people below it . |
| 6 | He attacked the door , which caved in at the third blow . |
| 7 | The only form of private enterprise ( including building ) which aimed primarily at the mass market , apart from the market and small shop , was the tavern which became the elaborate ‘ gin-palace ’ in the Britain of the 1860s and 1870s — and its offspring the theatre and music-hall . |
| 8 | After capture at Tobruk as a chaplain he listened as well as lectured and poured himself out as father , brother and friend , empathising with the religious difficulties of his fellow prisoners which gnawed away at the rigid Anglo-Catholicism of more sheltered days . |
| 9 | After a brief interval a reply in a lower key by a similarly religious bird came from what appeared to be a hummock of ivy on a small promontory which jutted out at the further end of the mere . |
| 10 | The day which ended terribly at the presidential palace started badly at the same venue . |