Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Johnson was a cheerful woman of enormous energy who was bustling around the shop , despite a pair of huge , heavy breasts which bulged beneath her dress . |
| 2 | She was immediately businesslike and succeeded in putting some suggestions to him in her crisp English way , which banished from her mind again any other thoughts . |
| 3 | The thought riled her , causing a rising anger which interfered with her work until voices made her aware that Silas and Doreen were standing beside the reception desk . |
| 4 | In July 1982 it was estimated that 300,000 people in the UK suffered from tinnitus which interfered with their ability to lead normal lives . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'll take it , ’ she said firmly , taking out my credit cards , my pen , easing me towards the Mercury phone booth which doubled as his office . |
| 6 | ( Mostly it had not , since it was unable to acquire the land put on the market , or even to understand the complex legal processes which led to its expropriation . ) |
| 7 | Most of the seminal papers which give rise to paradigm shifts , and the creation of new journals to publish new subjects or combinations of subjects , are first published in the core journal set for the earlier research front , and the clusters which define the new research front may not include the journal which first published the paper which led to its inception . |
| 8 | Eventually , this was one of the reasons which led to its decline in 1971/72 . |
| 9 | She had 91 days off work in 1990 which led to her qualification as a nurse being delayed . |
| 10 | The play was in fact being written during the period which led to her committal in Northumberland House : " You would never imagine anyone could sink so quickly " is Harry 's comment on the death by drowning of his wife . |
| 11 | She reached the busy Jamaica Road and suddenly felt depressed as she hurried across and turned into a quiet backstreet which led to her home . |
| 12 | But Cat wanted more input of her own , which led to her departure from his Minneapolis HQ . |
| 13 | On her way back , she was walking along the narrow public path which led to her house . |
| 14 | Günter Kiessling in 1983 , which led to his dismissal and later his reinstatement [ see pp. 32927-28 ; 33239 ] , had been engineered largely by the MAD . |
| 15 | The candidate of the ruling Fianna Fáil party , Brian Lenihan , who had been the clear favourite until the controversy which led to his dismissal as Deputy Prime Minister in late October [ see below ] , finished with 46.4 per cent of the vote . |
| 16 | In one case he had an affair with the mistress of the house , which led to his dismissal . |
| 17 | The country is still on its knees , exhausted from 25 years of Ceaucescu 's oppression , and still trying to catch its breath after the extraordinary heroism which led to his overthrow . |
| 18 | Coroner Colin Penna heard yesterday it was the job which led to his depression . |
| 19 | He surveyed the Dalradian of north-east Scotland ( 1877–85 ) , which led to his discovery of progressive regional metamorphism , a previously unrecognized phenomenon . |
| 20 | It was this defiance which led to his beating . |
| 21 | It was this which led to his downfall . |
| 22 | John Tomlinson 's article , Dose , Dilution and the LM Potencies which was first published in the Journal of the Society of Homœopaths ( Vol. 10 No. 4 Dec. 1990 ) has been included and gives a detailed analysis of Hahnemann 's thinking which led to his development of the LM system . |
| 23 | Mosley revolted over the wrong crisis , for he failed to see that considerable social and economic reform would result from a Second World War , a conflagration which he bitterly opposed and which led to his internment in 1940 . |
| 24 | Mr Macdonald praised Mr Young and Mr Smith for chasing Forman , saying that they had started the trail which led to his arrest , though the money had not been recovered . |
| 25 | He had been cautious of the 9pm appointment which led to his death and had driven to the village the night before to check the address . |
| 26 | It is tempting to speculate that were it not for the onset of the protracted illness in February 1858 Which led to his death in September 1859 , his influence might have produced a very different outcome to the competition . |
| 27 | He could only get temporary relief from certain drugs and it was believed that the same drug contributed to the hardening of the liver which led to his death . |
| 28 | You may remember that Samson was a man of enormous strength and then , following a liaison with Delila and her cutting off his hair , he was reported to have become as weak as a child — and yet there was an occasion , which led to his death , when he brought the whole temple down by pulling the pillars against which he was propped . |
| 29 | In late 1991 the investigation was reinvigorated by the discovery of notes made by former Secretary of Defence Caspar Weinberger , which led to his indictment [ see p. 38955 ] . |
| 30 | The earlier court had convicted him on Sept. 16 , 1990 , of aggravated murder , after finding that he had ordered troops to fire on demonstrators during the December 1989 riots which led to his father 's overthrow and death [ see p. 37725 ] . |