Example sentences of "which [verb] [vb pp] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the Thai border , the Khmer Rouge leaders can function with impunity , courtesy of the Thai Army which has supported them as its most effective weapon against Vietnam , Thailand 's largest security concern . |
| 2 | Kendall has doggedly maintained that , despite Everton 's dreadful run which has dragged them towards the bottom of the Premier League , there is nothing intrinsically wrong with his side . |
| 3 | Many people have been glad of this device over the years , which has saved them from death or serious injury . |
| 4 | Chelsea moved swiftly after Saturday 's cruciate knee ligament injury to Paul Elliott , which has robbed them of their defensive kingpin for a year . |
| 5 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 6 | The heart of the problem has been governments ' concern with social justice and an egalitarian distribution of income which has led them into passing legislation which has increased the costs of doing business . |
| 7 | They may even find time for a sustained effort to win the Premiership , a trophy which has eluded them since 1987 , the only way they can improve on their remarkable exploits of the last two seasons . |
| 8 | The car has been written off , which has left them with the prospect of having to pay out for a new vehicle . |
| 9 | Leicester 3 Sunderland 2 ONCE again , Sunderland were unable to transfer the marvellous form which has taken them to the FA Cup final at Wembley into their league matches . |
| 10 | Two businessmen have just completed an epic journey which has taken them across the English Channel in a microlight aircraft . |
| 11 | He is amazed by the complex destiny which has put them before each other like this , two solid independent creatures face to face , two selves , with a common background and a common source of reference in Goethe 's Faust . |
| 12 | ‘ However , in the economic revolution which has overtaken them with the collapse of the Soviet Union I can see problems looming for them in future . |
| 13 | Their entry into the Town Boys appeared to rest not only on the fact that they had gained reputations but also on their ability to maintain such reputations in the absence of the symbolic dress and tokens of status which had assisted them in the past . |
| 14 | It was their own indolence which had landed them with a murder which could probably be explained and might even have been prevented , if they had taken a bit more trouble . |
| 15 | Meanwhile Edward Tekere , leader of the breakaway Zimbabwe Unity Movement ( ZUM ) , on April 6 challenged the fairness of the elections , rejecting the findings of the electoral commission which had declared them to be " free , fair and impartial " . |
| 16 | She had reached the landing by this stage of her deliberations , remarking , as she did so , that the fitted carpet , which had covered them in her own time , had gone . |
| 17 | It meant that women could work towards defining their own autonomous sexuality , independent of the social institutions of marriage and the family which had fixed them in oppressive relationships with men . |
| 18 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 19 | But having snapped the thread which had led Hegel on from there to his speculative Absolute , they turned back to find the real meaning and reference of these objectifications in the subject which had produced them as forms of its own self-expression . |
| 20 | Over 30 universities and colleges resumed work on Aug. 24 on the orders of the military government , which had closed them in response to student riots in December 1991 [ see p. 38681 ] . |
| 21 | The directors , who met weekly , acted as a house committee , and the minutes of their meetings show them to have been diligent in pursuing the objectives set out in the preamble to the Act of Parliament which had brought them into existence . |
| 22 | They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here . |
| 23 | Blake remembered the much smaller pterodactyls which had attacked them in hell . |
| 24 | The shadows took on forms and approached him , wreathed in the phantom smoke that matched that which had taken them from his life . |
| 25 | In places vehicles which had preceded them along the track had exposed the sterile moss . |
| 26 | The results showed that capercaillie had vanished from 12 of the 56 forests which had held them for 20 years , and numbers had declined in nearly all the other forests . |
| 27 | Furthermore , a quarter of the freeholdings were in the hands of completely different families from those which had held them in 1575 . |
| 28 | This chapter begins by examining some major fieldwork problems associated with the study of syntactic variation , going on to review in 7.3 some studies which have tackled them by means of various elicitation techniques . |
| 29 | Nonetheless , it seems to me that the rule requires the justices to record and to announce the facts which they judged to be significant in the making of their decision and also the salient considerations which have led them to their conclusion . |
| 30 | These two people , whose success is almost totally dependent upon the effectiveness of the publicity machines which have made them into heroes , are currently ( eternally , it seems ) in just about every magazine and paper you pick up . |