Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most important was the right to prevent any single investor from owning more than 15 per cent of the shares , which effectively gave them the right to veto a takeover bid . |
| 2 | Sharpe told Ziegler what he knew , which merely confirmed what the Prussian Captain had already discovered for himself . |
| 3 | Besides birds , which obviously fascinated me the most , there were many kinds of spiders , ants , termites , bees and other insects in the forest , but the species that we enjoyed collecting were beautiful butterflies , dragonflies and cicadas . |
| 4 | Her arguments were ridiculed by Tobias Smollett [ q.v. ] ( a former pupil of Smellie 's ) in an essay in the Critical Review ( 1760 ) , which nevertheless paid her the compliment of insinuating that her husband must have written the book . |
| 5 | When running it had a very distinctive sound which quickly earned it the name of Put-put or Phut-phut . |
| 6 | I might have returned to match fishing , which never gave me the same enjoyment , even when I won , that a big fish always does , and , I hope , always will . |