Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It obviously was n't just a quarrel which got out of hand , or robbery with violence . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps some drunken jape which got out of hand , or perhaps a calculated act of attempted murder . |
| 5 | League tables of exam results published today are being roundly condemned — even by some of those schools which came out on top . |
| 6 | We had one particularly bad sexual harassment case which came out of West Belfast a couple of years ago , which I think was a landmark in the recognition by the courts that women can not be treated with indignity and in the way that that girl was treated . |
| 7 | TRIMDON Grange Workingmen 's Club , which came out of receivership three years ago , is aiming to become one of the most popular clubs in the area . |
| 8 | ‘ Concept research ’ , followed by an omnibus quantitative survey , produced a brief for the dummy which came out in favour of the more ‘ downmarket ’ left-wing Mail on Sunday , rather than the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ . |
| 9 | Even Dale 's ( 1969 ) book which came out in favour of co-educational schooling , recognized that girls were academically less successful in such an environment . |
| 10 | Although much of the dissent of 1855 and early 1856 was to be found in obscure memoranda written by one bureaucrat for another , manuscripts circulated by hand among the intelligentsia , and a journal which came out in faraway London , the Russian government also had reason to worry about dissent with a high public profile . |
| 11 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 12 | Dog of the Month was Mally Woods ' High Noon Away , which came back after injury to win four and finish second in its five outings . |
| 13 | He also lavishly praised the king , James IV , for his learning , love of his religion , humanity and political skill , although he expressed grave and prophetic doubts about the courage which toppled over into foolhardiness in war . |
| 14 | ‘ It was laid on London clay which dried out in summer and became very muddy in winter , ’ Claudia explained . |
| 15 | In the centre of the vault , which dated back to 382–336BC , was the king 's sarcophagus , apparently untouched for 23 centuries . |
| 16 | Samsung , which signed up with HP three years ago , is a member of the HP PA-RISC supporters club PRO — the Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 17 | Unlike many similar discounts which sprang up after Abbey National had made its move , this one is for an indefinite period . |
| 18 | Remy , which lost out to Martini last year in a bid for Benedictine , is the world 's third largest cognac firm and the only one which is still family owned . |
| 19 | It began during Henry VIII 's reign with the Cromwellian injunctions of 1536 and 1538 , which singled out for destruction superstitious images attracting pilgrimages and offerings . |
| 20 | Nowadays it is thought that not much new water is generated by volcanoes or by hot springs and vapours , which speeded up in time through land-ocean changes and continental drift ; the vast majority of this is today believed to be recycled hydrospheric water . |
| 21 | That Green World is the new national newsletter which took over from news and erm because I 'm on the editorial board |
| 22 | The wing collar , which fell out of favour about 50 years ago ( except for the very formal ‘ white-tie ’ outfit worn with a tailcoat ) has recently be revived , thanks to the interest of the young . |
| 23 | They were sitting at an outside table in one of the corner cafés of the Ataba el Khadra , out of reach of the traffic but strategically placed so that they could watch not only all the interesting things that went on in the square but also the more sophisticated exchanges which went on between tourist and native in Musky Street . |
| 24 | With an astringent readability and clarity rare among economists , Galbraith 's book had a tremendous reception , partly , he believes , because of the Soviet Sputnik which went up into space just before it was published . |
| 25 | Two thousand mourners have attended the funeral of two young sisters from Middlesbrough who were knocked down by a car which went out of control . |
| 26 | Thieves have stolen toys from the graves of four young people killed by a car which went out of control and crashed into them . |
| 27 | The fragmentation of tasks which went along with Fordism reached technical , social and political limits . |
| 28 | He sat by a great semi-circular window which looked out into darkness pierced at regular intervals by the beam of the lighthouse . |
| 29 | The chaos on the military front , the continued threat of German invasion , the disintegration of the domestic economy with the prospects of both famine and civil anarchy : all these established the first emergencies facing the regime , the imperatives which cried out for response . |
| 30 | This was an area which cried out for reform . |