Example sentences of "which [vb past] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawkins and Jess took the slave to the one which housed the old pony tack , the moth-eaten horse blankets , the bits and pieces from Mr Jarman 's horse-riding lifetime and his father 's before him . |
| 2 | In November 19X1 the Bank of England defined a new monetary sector which amalgamated the old banking sector with a number of other related institutions . |
| 3 | A wind such as East Anglia only knows , cruel , ‘ lazy ’ ( too lazy to go round you , going through you instead ) , a wind which made the old ladies in the town say : ‘ Oi 've got me thermals on ’ . |
| 4 | For today 's kites have one unique quality which made the old ones so tiresome to fly . |
| 5 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 6 | I just let out a giggle of disbelief which made the old gecko who ran the class flutter his ruff at me in disapproval ; I calmed him with a quip and continued the negotiations with my round and financially tenacious new chum . |
| 7 | Because this diffusion was not even , and was far more marked where levels of literacy were comparatively high , it resulted in the growth of two cultural zones : on the one hand , French-speaking regions receptive to ‘ foreign ’ ideas , and on the other , rural areas which retained the old language and the old ways of life . |
| 8 | In one of these turrets was a camera oscura , a dark room with a crystal prism set in it , which enabled the old Contessa to see the people walking in the square below . |
| 9 | Oddly , consuming countries are also members of the International Coffee Organisation , which policed the old cartel . |
| 10 | During the eighteenth century there were signs of the first rumblings of the tectonic upheaval which shattered the old order in Europe , and from its ruins created a group of nation states out of the submerged nations which lay under the surface of the great multinational empires . |
| 11 | He prefers to see believers as the heirs to the one Abrahamic covenant which inaugurated the Old Testament people of God ( Acts 3:25 ) . |
| 12 | It follows a winding course through low-lying water meadows , between the piers which supported the old railway arch ( unused in the wake of Dr Beeching ) , down through attractive wooded slopes to Steeple Mill . |
| 13 | As a member of the influential Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy ( COMA ) , he helped to establish the new Dietary Reference Values ( DRVs ) for nutrients , which replaced the old RDA ( Recommended Daily Amounts ) guidelines . |
| 14 | When we went to gigs David used to travel in Ralph Horton 's car and we used to have to go in the old ambulance which replaced the old Atlas van . |
| 15 | However , other schemes , including those which replaced the old apprenticeship training , do lead to jobs for which preliminary training is required and in these motivation can be very high . |
| 16 | In 1912 she was active in the Fabian reform committee , which annoyed the older generation of Fabians by trying to forge closer and more exclusive links between the Fabians and the Labour party . |