Example sentences of "[verb] which [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But just as these two groups began moving closer together , other forces were gathering which threatened to blow the consensus wide apart once more . |
| 2 | One of its valves is larger than the other , and that valve has a circular opening at its apex , through which a fleshy stalk passed which served to attach the animal during life . |
| 3 | Mr Ormond 's compromise revealed another unpublicised chapter in the shady saga of Scottish football , a new era of player power was brewing which threatened to usurp the manager 's authority . |
| 4 | The wine and lemon-flavoured cream whip or syllabub which had crowned the Trifle had begun to disappear . |
| 5 | From this impetus various theories were proposed which sought to apply the empirical method of the natural sciences to the study of society . |
| 6 | Never again was there to be a nation-wide intervention by the railway-workers , although those social tension persisted which had helped the bolsheviks to divide and rule in 1912 . |
| 7 | A number of factors could be identified which helped to explain the apparent resilience of these women . |
| 8 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |