Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking a deep breath , as though she were about to plunge into deep water , which successfully parted her mouth , she had her exhaling breath cut off as his mouth touched hers , parting it even further , and a delicious shiver of pleasure went down her spine . |
| 2 | At best it was a snobbery which wholly overlooked his timing , eye and exactitude of judgment and imagery . |
| 3 | In 1970 he suffered severe brain damage in a road accident which effectively ended his career . |
| 4 | The Doctor sat with an unreadable expression , which presumably meant his patience was n't being strained . |
| 5 | The political crisis which vastly increased its recruitment could not help but give it an unusual character . |
| 6 | Ecgfrith 's reign was marked by his generous endowment of the Northumbrian church , by his bitter quarrel with its most flamboyant leader , Saint Wilfrid , bishop of York [ q.v. ] , and by a militancy towards neighbouring peoples , the Mercians , the Picts , and the Irish , which eventually brought him disaster . |
| 7 | Stevens was playing for Spurs when he became a victim of a Vinnie Jones tackle which eventually ended his career . |
| 8 | Stevens was playing for Spurs when he became a victim of a Vinnie Jones tackle which eventually ended his career and he said : ‘ If players are dragging matters through the courts it ca n't be good publicity for the game . |
| 9 | Some of them , such as Mulvey 's films , and Tyndall , McCall , Pajaczkowska and Weinstock 's Sigmund Freud 's Dora ( 1979 ) , presupposed a knowledge of psychoanalytical theory which necessarily limited their appeal . |
| 10 | These were the copper sheathing which greatly reduced the fouling of their bottoms by weeds and the loss of speed this entailed ; and the carronade which greatly increased their fighting power . |
| 11 | in 1938 for a thesis on eighteenth-century English political history ; third , as a tutorial fellow ( 1945 ) who effectively combined a heavy teaching programme with research ; fourth , as senior tutor ( 1946–53 ) , a long period which greatly widened his experience ; and , finally , as an outstanding master from 1957 until his death . |
| 12 | ‘ Two sets of twins , all boys , as indicated by the horoscopes drawn up for Lucia and Michele , which greatly influenced her father 's decision to allow them to marry . ’ |
| 13 | It was his ability to achieve that power and well-being which alone justified his despotism . |
| 14 | In later years when they were reduced to penury , she displayed great moral heroism in preserving intact the framework of a family and a household , which alone enabled her husband to continue his work . |
| 15 | Whereas things appeared stable in Britain at that time , overseas there existed events of change — in Italy there existed no unity and much of the land was occupied by the forces of Austria , but they were removed and in 1833 , a united Italy was advocated under Papal rule , but that proved not to be successful and it would be some years before Garibaldi was able to form the Italian National Association for the Unification of Italy which only achieved its objective in 1871 . |
| 16 | Shares in the manufacturer of bridal wear and nursery products , which only made its debut on the Third Market a year ago via a placing at 100p , stand at 136p . |
| 17 | The energy paths of every being which literally made their way along here before me have permeated the very fabric of the earth and my footsteps are well guided indeed . |
| 18 | In order to facilitate a quick arrest under difficult circumstances — ‘ the crowd was jeering and becoming unpleasantly restive ’ — Robert Mark then confesses that he indulged in a little police brutality , by using his strictly non-regulation rubber truncheon to give the offender ‘ a hefty whack on the shin' which apparently broke his leg . |
| 19 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 20 | For example , the extensive list of qualifications and caveats which Marshall appended to his exposition of the quantity theory of money had threatened to cast such a long shadow over its validity that Marshall appeared to take freight and retarait behind the ceteris paribus stipulation which so typified his approach to economics . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you want a drink ? ’ suggested Brian , still on that cherishing note which so disconcerted his wife . |
| 22 | I LOVED Michael Firth 's portrait of model Jerry Hall , which so captured her beauty . |
| 23 | He was the supreme all-rounder — the best since Grace — but with a self-confessed ‘ allergy ’ to publicity which perhaps led his reputation to suffer after his retirement . |
| 24 | ‘ BEING ANTI-DISCO was very important to me , ’ says Michael Mann about Miami Vice , the show which finally made his name through what he calls ‘ a totally contemporary vernacular — visually , musically , sonically . ’ |
| 25 | As it was the revolt of the Czech Legion on the Trans-Siberian Railway in May 1918 which in a sense signalled the start of the Civil War , so was it the taking of Vladivostok by the Red Army in 1922 , the withdrawal of American and Japanese interventionist forces from the Siberian mainland , and the incorporation of the short-lived far Eastern Republic into the Soviet Union which finally marked its end . |
| 26 | Originally it probably had nothing to do with Jacob , but was a local tale told in the region around the Jabbok which somehow found its way into his narrative . |
| 27 | I was aware that the threshold of the audience 's suspension of disbelief lay far below mine ; and that the aching gap between the supposed humour of the script and their exaggerated response was minuscule when set beside that which already separated my reality from theirs . |
| 28 | The woman was well built too , and the man had a very large stomach and was wearing a baggy shirt which just covered his belly . |
| 29 | He gave the cheeky smile which always accompanied his guidance about the way other people ought to conduct their investigations . |
| 30 | The US administration has reined back its support from Mrs Aquino after the initial commitment of air support — now widely regarded in Washington as a move which further weakened her authority . |