Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pers pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Philip Corder felt inhibited by this evidence , although there was one sherd in this group ( no. 141 ) which caused him some concern , being obviously a Signal Station type , which should have belonged to the end of the fourth century ! |
| 2 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 3 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , we sailed straight into a terrible storm , which drove us many miles eastward . |
| 5 | Mr Hall denied this and maintained his 270 new recruits had been bonded together by the ugly scenes which confronted them each day as they passed picket lines . |
| 6 | In addition , my Grandfather , for twenty-odd years prior to his death , at the age of seventy two in 1907 , suffered from a chest condition which incapacitated him each winter . |
| 7 | It was a neat idea , and one which placed it half way between the rigid discipline of the Trotskyites and the hopeless chaos of the Anarchists ( or Libertarians , as they preferred to call themselves ) on the ultra-left spectrum . |
| 8 | Their work was hampered when a large boulder blocking their way was moved , resulting in a further fall of shale which took them several hours to remove . |
| 9 | But for Sergeant Geoff Newitt , from Great Milton in Oxfordshire , memories of the night last July which earned him this honour are never far from his mind . |
| 10 | When at last she gained some independence by taking a job which gave her some income of her own , she suddenly put her foot down . |
| 11 | The book of which gave him most satisfaction was William Neil 's One Volume Bible Commentary . |
| 12 | But it was the ability to become a socially responsible landlord which gave him most satisfaction . |
| 13 | True , he was an All-State footballer which gave him some excitement and fun ; but he always stayed in Neptune with Lorraine and with Mud . |
| 14 | For example , in Variation 5 of the above-quoted work , Bach kept all intervals true in the successive canons by inversion at the 6th , 3rd , 2nd , and 9th — a Herculean task , and surely one which gave him some satisfaction . |
| 15 | I have received thy kind letter of February the 19th 1755 , which gave me much satisfaction : and some uneasiness , that so many years have elapsed wherein we might have reciprocally communicated our observations to each other ; and although thee had incomparably the advantage over me , yet , notwithstanding , I love to peep into the abstruse operations of nature . |
| 16 | The Andalo is a well constructed boot designed for the wider British foot , which gave me many miles of trouble-free walking . |
| 17 | During my sheltered youth I had two fleeting experiences which gave me some indication that I was not alone . |
| 18 | I attended a fortnight 's training course at the BBC , which gave me some understanding of the part I would have to play in supervising the work of the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 19 | For another generation , this Covenant was to be held up as a model of political excellence within the Middle East , especially by the Western powers which gave it such approval but which did not have to suffer its consequences . |
| 20 | He lacked spark from the start and never hit the kind of form which won him this title in the same ring last October . |
| 21 | Annika Sorenstam , the 22-year-old Swede who was playing in what was only her second LPGA event , finished as well placed as fourth — a performance which won her some $37,000 . |
| 22 | Conran asked this manager to carry out a feasibility study , the result of which convinced him that Habitat should move into France , a country for which he has always had a great fondness . |
| 23 | But in spite of her enthusiasm , she never tumbled to the silent response which greeted her each time she told the story . |
| 24 | He was a black man raised in poverty , but who used his initiative , wit and boxing skill to rise to prominence , command multi-million dollar pay days and criticize the ‘ man and the system ’ which ensured him such monies ! |
| 25 | ‘ It was the Tekoa pictured above which rescued us that night . |