Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | • These days she 's pretty much engaged in an acting career , although she did turn up in John Waters ' Hairspray in 1988 to render Barbara Lynn Ozen 's title song , which duly appeared on the soundtrack album . |
| 2 | The old divorce laws which once sat on the statute books were viewed with contempt even by many of those who made their living from them . |
| 3 | This is the Drowned Forest , which once stood on the land , before the sea came in over it . |
| 4 | Cardiff could see that he had attached a microphone of some kind to the metal container which still rested on the chair and which had been giving the so-called mysterious ‘ readings ’ . |
| 5 | The bogus golfers had placed a triangular support under the open end of the decapitated golf-bag and had hammered a notched support into the grout at its base , which still rested on the trolley . |
| 6 | As for the benign intent : whereas dashes for growth in the 1960s and early 1970s were engineered by governments that deliberately overestimated the economy 's ability to grow , last year 's boom was the result of a miscalculation , which probably erred on the right side . |
| 7 | His father was running a small lock-shop in Bolton Gedge worked in the room above writing songs , many of which later appeared on the début album . |
| 8 | That was the situation before the election of Mrs Thatcher 's first government in 1979 , which openly campaigned on the need to make society more unequal . |
| 9 | Originally issued in 1979 , the B-side is a previously unreleased version of ‘ Read it in Books ’ , the song co-written by Julian Cope and Ian McCulloch , which originally appeared on the flipside of the 45 . |
| 10 | She did not have sufficient strength to take stance on the gaunt bare branch above her head nor had she touched the remnant of meat that had been left the day before as her food and which now lay on the ground at her side . |
| 11 | Hannele had given Edward a sheet of paper with names and numbers on it , which now lay on the desk . |
| 12 | Supporters of détente in the 1970s could argue that personal contacts , trade and the Helsinki agreements had undermined the Soviet hold on the East , but opponents of détente could counter that Reagan 's Cold War policies had helped to put unbearable strains on the Soviet economy , which now seemed on the verge of collapse . |
| 13 | Thus both Castile and Genoa became suppliers of galleys which often fought on the French side , notably in 1416 when the Genoese provided part of the fleet which suffered defeat at the hands of the English at the battle of the Seine , off Harfleur . |
| 14 | What its function was and what relationship it bore to the building-complex which then stood on the site of the later temple has yet to be established . |
| 15 | The non-observance of this particular text ( which officially remained on the statute book until January 1987 ) , came to symbolize the weakness and the politization of communications policies . |
| 16 | His face was a picture of red ferocity , the straggling red hair and beard , the bloodshot eyes , the gaunt-featured face burnt red by wind and sun , which yet showed on the cheekbones and under the eyes the bruising stain of tiredness . |
| 17 | After his narrow failure to convince the Labour party conference in 1930 , he and six other MPs left the Labour party to form the New Party , which actively campaigned on the Mosley Manifesto , a rewritten version of the memorandum . |