Example sentences of "[noun] which [vb past] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again she was silent for a moment or two , looking down at the carpet of tawny beech leaves , debris of the previous autumn , now shimmering in the dappled shafts of light which struggled through the tree canopy . |
| 2 | Slowly he hung his trousers on a hanger , which he placed on the communal rail which ran through the dressing room . |
| 3 | It was in that office on the fourth floor that I heard and felt the city of Dublin roar and shudder with the explosion of three massive bombs which ripped through the heart of the city and its people . |
| 4 | The three were alleged to have been part of a 30-strong gang which rampaged through the park on April 19 , 1989 , making a series of unprovoked attacks which culminated in the gang-rape of the jogger who was left unconscious with severe head injuries . |
| 5 | I yearned towards the mystical earnestness which saw through the outer facing of existence in a oneness and blinding intensity which went direct to some essence of being . |
| 6 | Girobank handled £47m in retail deposits and transactions last year , which the bank says works out at £1 in every £3 which passed through the nation 's tills . |
| 7 | Like the politics of the miners which seamed through the talk of his brothers , never as vivid as the ‘ stories ’ but always there , those early films provided him with examples of acting which he must have absorbed willy-nilly . |
| 8 | A map recovered from the wreckage showed a direct track drawn between Blackbushe and Cranfield which passed through the north west comer of the Luton special rules zone . |
| 9 | On certain days , it was said , a tramcar of unusual design was seen circulating slowly along the lines which passed through the poorest and most deprived slums in the city . |
| 10 | Contrary to popular myth and the Government 's public relations machine , you were among around 30 million people in Britain who have failed to join the crusade of popular capitalism which swept through the 1980s . |
| 11 | Contrary to popular myth and the government 's public relations machine , you were among around 30 million people in Britain who have failed to join the crusade of popular capitalism which swept through the 1980s . |
| 12 | For five months , Marina has called the cellar home , ever since Serbian soldiers lobbed grenades which crashed through the roof and blew apart her parents ' flat . |
| 13 | THE 1,000lb IRA bomb which ripped through the centre of Armagh on Friday morning highlighted again the security nightmare facing Ulster towns . |
| 14 | No one who was around in the late 1960s can have avoided the flood of changes which swept through the dress , sexual codes , language , food styles , cinema , literature , music , and other generative aspects of the new counter-culture . |
| 15 | They hurried past Fleet ditch , the corpses of dead dogs floating in the slime , and along twisting lanes which ran through the high , four-storey houses , the upper floors projecting out on wooden pillars so the rooms above could catch the sun . |
| 16 | A friendly encounter gave a glow which lasted through the night . |
| 17 | A PENSIONER was killed and her husband critically injured yesterday in an explosion which ripped through the ground floor of their home . |
| 18 | So , in his lack of business-like habits , Anselm was only exhibiting a defect which ran through the whole system . |
| 19 | As we entered the main causeway which snaked through the trees to the manor 's main door , the sight of Royston killed the song on our lips and the joy in our hearts . |
| 20 | Thus began the Peace Movement which continued through the remainder of the year with marches and hymnsinging rallies and which led to the award in 1977 of the Nobel Peace Prize to Mairead Corrigan and her co-founder , Mrs. Betty Williams . |
| 21 | In recent years a bypass was built , considerably lessening the load of traffic which passed through the village , and a period of comparative peace was enjoyed . |
| 22 | Once during rectification of a fault his team located the problem as being due to broken wires in a cable loom which ran through the communications tunnel . |
| 23 | Schaffer was going to move into the cloakroom and take a look through the window , but as he grabbed his binoculars from the office there was a polite knock on the thick outer door which resounded through the hollow space of the building . |
| 24 | ‘ Melin ’ is Welsh for ‘ mill ’ , and the Meloch was the river which ran through the property , from which the diversion from the weir through the millpond , under the road and out into the famous River Dee would supply our needs . |
| 25 | In Greece , the Arcadian boys of Phigalia cut their hair and threw the locks into the river which ran through the wooded glen below the city . |
| 26 | The outer skin of any craft which passed through the air barrier of a force field stored static electricity like a giant capacitor . |
| 27 | It protected the entrance to a tunnel which passed through the wall , and Rostov was amazed at its length . |
| 28 | A centuries-old road bridge which is a protected landmark , has been badly damaged by a tractor which smashed through the parapet . |
| 29 | A single road , holed and pockmarked , connected the prison 's main gates to a small tarmac road which wound through the hills and moors like a dry tongue in search of water . |
| 30 | You are not from this world , he says , and you came here in a metal ship which flew through the air . |