Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1964 the TUC sold its 40 per cent of the Herald to the Mirror Group , which relaunched it as the Sun . |
| 2 | Carrying a heavy basket and bundle , Tess was walking towards the hills which divided her from the Vale , her place of birth . |
| 3 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 4 | It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place . |
| 5 | Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him . |
| 6 | I checked my hexagram against the index , which led me to the pages headed Ta Kuo : Preponderance of the Great . |
| 7 | Although this is an isolated example it is typical of the problems I encountered and which led me to the conclusion that the product simply is n't ready for release into the market in its current form . |
| 8 | Skirting the marshy end , they slowly climbed the gentle slope on the other side to join the carriage drive which led them to the stable . |
| 9 | In the 17 hours they were missing after losing their way , they trudged the forest to keep up their body heat until they eventually reached a path with white arrows which led them to the edge of the forest . |
| 10 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 11 | We walked the long , covered-in wooden bridge which led us over the Hundred Foot River to the members ' observatory . |
| 12 | It was only after the demise of the ruling reptiles that the class had the opportunity to capitalize on the evolutionary advantages which propelled them to the dominance they have enjoyed ever since . |
| 13 | The eyes which met his across the table top were bright with horror and with an excitement which was too close to relish to be comfortable . |
| 14 | Thousands of years ago , horses were grazing dinners for the carnivores which stalked them through the grasslands , and the horses which survived were the fittest , fastest , strongest , and most alert . |
| 15 | I had underlined the few shady connections which made it into the open . |
| 16 | Typical of microscopic work might be W. C. Williamson 's work on the formation of bones and teeth in the 1850s , which got him into the Royal Society . |
| 17 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 18 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 19 | A longer length of rope was circled around her shoulders and under the table , then over her gorgeous breasts and downwards until her rib cage was completely covered in coiled rope , which fastened her to the hard wooden table . |
| 20 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 21 | The isolation of the village from the outside world was mitigated by the existence of a close-knit village community with which the farm worker could identify and which provided him with the range of institutions and amenities which he then required in order to live the year round . |
| 22 | As though she had seen something which disturbed her from the window of the apartment . |
| 23 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 24 | Tears jumped into Evelyn 's eyes and she started to hurry in the direction of the girls ' barracks , ignoring the missiles which caught her on the back and arms or dropped uselessly on either side . |
| 25 | After three days hard riding , Corbett and his party reached Edinburgh in the middle of a sudden summer thunderstorm which drenched them to the skin . |
| 26 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 27 | I lifted the receiver and listened and it must have been the expression on my face which stopped him in the doorway . |
| 28 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 29 | An elderly widow who was robbed , attacked , and raped by a gang of youths was moved to sheltered dwellings with the help of the police , visited by policewomen from the unit at least once a week , and taken regularly to visit the family of one of the policewomen , which adopted her as the children 's granny . |
| 30 | Skilled in the art of clock-making , he constructed , in his eightieth year , a detailed and intricate orrery to replace one which displeased him by the ticking of its wheels . |