Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own father had been a skilled mechanic ( a phrase which conveyed little to Clara ) and as he himself had managed to purchase by his own labours a three bedroomed semi-detached house in a pleasant suburban district , he might have been thought to have cause to feel fairly content with life . |
| 2 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 3 | He fired a drive which looped crazily off Pat van den Hauwe 's heel . |
| 4 | Misty spray shrouded the sheer rock walls which plunged out of sight beneath our feet , and the recoiling backwash of the seas was heaped with fluffy spume as if some giant hand had emptied a mammoth packet of detergent there . |
| 5 | A senior officer , when employed , was able to place young men in the line of command by securing their entry as midshipmen , an appointment which became increasingly in demand with the expansion of the navy during the wars against France at the end of the eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth centuries . |
| 6 | The Youth Club of the Paris Commune as it was officially known , or the ‘ Paree ’ as its more irreverent members called it , was a gimcrack affair , cracked concrete and cheap plastic panels , tucked beside the inevitable block of flats , and a health centre , but it was well equipped : table tennis , television , a library , a concert room , a rather more substantial annexe for weight lifting , a hall which doubled up for meetings of the Free German Youth and dancing , and a comfortable lounge where one could buy coffee and soft drinks . |
| 7 | Professor Cuttino has concluded that the peace of paris ‘ which re-created the feudal relationship which led eventually to war , was the result of English commitments towards Sicily and the desire to secure wealthy territory ’ . |
| 8 | By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like . |
| 9 | Although modest in their poetic achievement , they helped to sustain the tenuous thread of the Slovene literary language which led back to Trubar . |
| 10 | Given Mancini 's scenario , their role is clear : they selfishly overturned Edward 's wishes and set in motion the train of events which led directly to Edward V 's deposition . |
| 11 | Given Mancini 's scenario , their role is clear : they selfishly overturned Edward 's wishes and set in motion the train of events which led directly to Edward V 's deposition . |
| 12 | This is not to claim that the war was totally unintended , but that national leaders had become caught in an irrational process which led inevitably to war . |
| 13 | By December 1961 the Fouchet committee , which met independently of EEC institutions , had devised a plan that aimed to build up cultural , defence and foreign policy co-operation among the Six in a Union of States . |
| 14 | Exemptions from paying tithes and from visitation were granted to the Order , for the Cistercians had their own developed machinery of the general chapter which met annually at Cîteaux to ensure the maintenance of the rule . |
| 15 | I was also elected to the Raleigh Club , which met periodically in Rhodes House . |
| 16 | That was a case which arose out of injuries in a motor accident . |
| 17 | Most successful in the sale were two fine early nineteenth-century Savonnerie carpets ( lots 227 and 228 ) which sold well above estimates for $200,000 and $230,000 respectively ( £127,759 ; £146,902 ) . |
| 18 | It is believed a third man drove the getaway car , a red Ford Escort XR3 , which made off towards Horrocks Avenue . |
| 19 | It obviously was n't just a quarrel which got out of hand , or robbery with violence . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps some drunken jape which got out of hand , or perhaps a calculated act of attempted murder . |
| 21 | They trooped inside and followed Phrynius down a shabby hall , then through another door to a larger room which had the shutters pulled down against the sun and which smelled slightly of ammonia and sulphur . |
| 22 | Curious how the same thought had struck him , McLeish reflected , as he looked properly round the warm , untidy comfort of Miss Williams ‘ s sitting-room , which smelled cheerfully of woodsmoke and wet dog . |
| 23 | Even at Glen Parva , a modern prison , which rioted shortly after Strangeways , the CNA was 612 and the actual prison population was 778 . |
| 24 | To have a set-aside system which applied only to farms in the north of Europe would discriminate considerably . |
| 25 | Lydia skirted it and took to a mountain path which meandered nonchalantly between rowan and hazel trees before stopping to present the traveller with a view of the valley 's close . |
| 26 | He held cordial if inconclusive talks with President George Bush which concentrated mainly on Japan 's rising trade surplus with the USA . |
| 27 | The gunner was provided with a .303in Lewis gun mounted on a Scarf gun ring which moved aft on rails for mooring purposes . |
| 28 | Mongalla , south of Bor , was captured two days later , but a column of government troops which moved south-eastwards from Juba was contained by SPLA forces at Ngangala . |
| 29 | The dollar , which rose initially in Asia following news of Clinton 's win , closed with a marginal gain in London . |
| 30 | The PFLP-GC was allegedly linked to the bombing of the Pan American Boeing 747 which crashed on to Lockerbie , Scotland , on Dec. 21 , 1988 , killing 270 people [ see pp 36409-10 ] . |