Example sentences of "which [noun] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A note crept into Nina 's voice which Alexandra recognized with surprise as pleading . |
| 2 | It was just after 9 p.m. that a PC arrived from the railway station carrying a small brown envelope , which Morse accepted with delight , smiling radiantly at Lewis but saying nothing as he slit open the top and looked briefly inside . |
| 3 | The sea had become a green-black pool spread with foam less than a hundred feet in circumference in which Trent steered by instinct . |
| 4 | Hundreds of Teesside families are being asked this week to pull their caravans off the Stockton site by April 31 , which Keepsafe opened without permission in 1989 . |
| 5 | That this was a matter of interest and concern in Northumbria in the early 730s is clear from Bede 's letter to Ecgberht in 734 in which Bede expounded at length on the necessity for more bishops and a proper organization of the Northumbrian Church under an archbishop at York . |
| 6 | He rapidly became one of the prince 's closest friends , accompanying him on his crusade of 1270–2 and appearing as one of his executors in the will which Edward made at Acre in June 1272 . |
| 7 | Thus , the District gained little direct financial benefit from increased enrolments as the capitation fee which branches paid to District funds was calculated not on student enrolment but on WEA membership . |
| 8 | Equations which Spenser made between religion , class , morality , and self-control ( especially in sexual matters ) as a register of civility or savagery , and ultimately of good or evil , may be found uncannily , certainly uncomfortably , circulating within our current social discourses . |
| 9 | That confiture d'oignons , for instance , for which the recipe appeared in Michel Guérard 's Cuisine Gourmande and which has since made the tour du monde surely derived from Pomiane 's dish of sweet-sour onions in which the sweetening elements were sultanas and pain d " épices , the spiced honey cake of central Europe , and which Pomiane had in turn borrowed from the Jewish cookery of his native Poland . |
| 10 | The burden which Christian carries on his back is the anvil which Bunyan humped through country lanes , encountering , like Christian , floods and mud and dangers of footpads . |
| 11 | In Ease and Endurance , the continuation of the autobiography which Boulestin wrote in French under the title of A Londres Naguère and which was published after his death in a somewhat harum-scarum translation by Robin Adair ( at one point Adair has Boulestin exploring the Cecil Hotel in a taxi ) , he tells how the place was crammed night after night with customers from the Savoy , Ritz and Carlton belt , stage stars , artists , writers , royalty and High Bohemia . |
| 12 | There were dwarf fan palms where lazy lizards sought shade from the hot sun and thick-leaved aloes which Ruth skirted with care — the points were like needles . |
| 13 | Ari 's shoulders slumped , which Roirbak interpreted as relief . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the attitudes which Wordsworth adopted towards industrialization were successfully transmitted to the later nineteenth century , and ultimately down to our own day , where they have sometimes been incorporated into the law of the land . |
| 15 | Next to the bowl were his bottle and plate which visitors refreshed with palm wine , betel nut or chewing tobacco to keep his soul from feeling neglected . |
| 16 | The police arrested John and William Habron , managing to produce ‘ eye-witnesses ’ at the trial , which Peace attended in disguise . |
| 17 | Another weird species which Jane encountered in magazineland was the Public Relations Woman . |
| 18 | In the year ending March 1985 , the revenue of the BBC was £723m , of which £555m went towards television and the rest ( £220m ) to radio . |
| 19 | Not the least is the role which individuals played in war . |
| 20 | ‘ He gave his life to try to save one of the horses which Stephen bought from Father . ’ |
| 21 | The Book of Revelation , which Tolstoy said ‘ reveals absolutely nothing ’ , is more heavily marked than anything else in the New Testament which Dostoevsky took to prison with him , and we know that huge overarching shapes like Baal , the Kingdom of Antichrist , are beginning to appear in his writing from the early 1860s . |
| 22 | Burgoyne and Clark ( 1984 ) report that this was seen as a major reason for returning to live with parents after the break-up of a marriage , and the assistance which grandparents gave with child care in the short term was seen as vital in helping their daughter or son to re-establish themselves economically and to form new relationships . |
| 23 | My earliest memories are of Low Birk Hatt , which Daddy bought at auction when I was three , at what turned out to be an inflated price . |
| 24 | Paulinus consecrated Honorius , archbishop of Canterbury , at Lincoln , after which Eadwine joined with Eadbald in requesting a pallium for Honorius and another for Paulinus ( HE 11 , 17 , 18 ) . |
| 25 | Gay had scraped together quite a creditable lunch , which Breeze swallowed in haste and then rushed off to the Vicarage . |
| 26 | So had the great survey of landownership in Russia which Catherine set in motion in 1765 and even the Legislative Commission of two years later . |
| 27 | A shelf against one wall displayed a small collection of rainbow-hued glass bowls and ornaments in which colour flowed into colour in a multiform fantasy of design and chance . |
| 28 | The plasteel door of the airlock was a grim grin of great interlocking teeth , surrounded by tubular lips from which ducts ran to pressure gauges . |
| 29 | She was kept on bed-rest , and an angiogram was taken which showed that there was blood seeping into the brain from aneurysms which Rose had in fact probably been born with , but which had not caused any problems previously . |
| 30 | The school was also very grateful for a gift of text books which Philip presented on behalf of LASMO North Sea . |