Example sentences of "which had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their entry into the Town Boys appeared to rest not only on the fact that they had gained reputations but also on their ability to maintain such reputations in the absence of the symbolic dress and tokens of status which had assisted them in the past . |
| 2 | This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved . |
| 3 | On wet days at Great Casterton we took it in turns to lecture , and on one of them I offered to talk about the Fosse Way as a Roman military frontier , a subject which had intrigued me from my work at Lincoln . |
| 4 | Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's . |
| 5 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 6 | I could n't see his face any more with its closed , guarded expression which had kept me from going towards him ; now he was just a figure in a doorway , a symbol of home-coming . |
| 7 | It was their own indolence which had landed them with a murder which could probably be explained and might even have been prevented , if they had taken a bit more trouble . |
| 8 | As he moved away , Shannon sent a silent stream of curses after the mischievous imp in her soul which had landed her in this , desperately trying to remember the instructions she 'd skimmed through in the beginners ' ‘ learn-to-ski ’ handbook Kelly had given her . |
| 9 | Paula James , Matthew Glyrm 's youthful amanuensis ( after a one-year course in office routines at the technical college ) had turned up for work as usual , unaware of the events which had robbed her of her employer . |
| 10 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 11 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 12 | Suu Kyi had led the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) to a landslide election victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ] , but the country 's ruling military junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , which had placed her under house arrest in mid-1989 , prevented the party from forming a government . |
| 13 | Invalided out of the army in 1915 , Colman began to take up the acting career which had fascinated him since amateur dramatics in childhood . |
| 14 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 15 | For — while Sir Felix had nothing much wrong with him except a wild look in his eye sometimes and a tendency to go off in fits of what Gemma had called " unstable " laughter — she had heard certain tales of moral laxity about his brothers and uncles and even one or two of his sisters , which had done nothing for her peace of mind . |
| 16 | With Mr Crump 's wealth … his dreams of money diverted his energy from the sexual lust which had gripped him after that effervescent meeting with the Crumps . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Edward Tekere , leader of the breakaway Zimbabwe Unity Movement ( ZUM ) , on April 6 challenged the fairness of the elections , rejecting the findings of the electoral commission which had declared them to be " free , fair and impartial " . |
| 18 | Jarvis 's train set , the one which had diverted him from his mother 's grief on the day her father hanged himself , was laid out on the floor in Lower Six , a classroom on the top floor , and Jarvis had told Jasper he could play with it whenever he liked . |
| 19 | It came into force for those states which had ratified it in 1953 . |
| 20 | The Supreme Court , in a seven to one vote on Sept. 10 , declined to suspend the impeachment proceedings but gave Collor until Sept 22 to prepare his defence before the Chamber of Deputies , which had given him until Sept. 15 to address it . |
| 21 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 22 | Her problems were more to do with the self confidence which had characterised her from such an early age . |
| 23 | She had reached the landing by this stage of her deliberations , remarking , as she did so , that the fitted carpet , which had covered them in her own time , had gone . |
| 24 | Tammuz leaned over Zambia and removed a T-shirt which had hooked itself over the wall-clock in the frenzy of its removal the previous night . |
| 25 | It meant that women could work towards defining their own autonomous sexuality , independent of the social institutions of marriage and the family which had fixed them in oppressive relationships with men . |
| 26 | that the choice lay between power , which had served us since the days of Clive , and influence which , if we could use it aright in the changed conditions of the twentieth century , would serve us better . |
| 27 | Although she had moulded herself into the demure and restrained wife suitable to Stephen 's position , deep down she still possessed the wild spirits which had led her into Sir William Forster 's arms . |
| 28 | Agnes Jones 's intense religious fervour , which had led her into nursing in the first place , caused Florence Nightingale some anxiety . |
| 29 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 30 | The great thunder which had propelled it towards their hiding-place below ground had somehow ebbed . |