Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd slotted in , by mistake , a tape on which I 'd recorded some sixties pop music for a party , and which I 'd never run back . |
| 2 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 3 | And the human frame on to which I had grafted this delusion had definitely left Cliff Top , but despite this , from time to time I would come across what seemed like obscure messages , quirkily encoded , that threatened to upset my peace of mind . |
| 4 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |
| 5 | I remembered the queer mixture of fear and belief with which I had read this and afterwards written it down . |
| 6 | It was here that we found the official report of the operation by 22 Squadron on September 17 , 1940 , the report with which I had opened this story . |
| 7 | They came to the ‘ eye ’ of this storm , below a sullen , winter sky , and at once Tallis began to recognize the deep canyon which she had hollowed those days before , with Morthen . |
| 8 | As Shama talked , Hussa added a reminder here and there as though they were stories which she had heard many times before . |
| 9 | When she returned to Jedburgh that evening she was in great pain from what is likely to have been a haemorrhage , of which she had suffered several since her son 's birth . |
| 10 | She began working with ‘ handicapped ’ children and concluded that the methods which she had found most successful in dealing with feeble-minded children would be quite applicable to those who were normal and that ordinary schools needed the sort of transforma-tion she had accomplished at her own ‘ special ’ school . |
| 11 | Christmas eve arrived and at 5.00 pm we changed into our walking out uniforms which we had spent most of the morning ironing . |
| 12 | Further it suggested that of those people who did not go to a lawyer , a higher proportion had received help from outside the household , and of that group only one-quarter had received advice to go to a lawyer which they had ignored Such contrary evidence does not denigrate the value of pre-legal advice , but suggests that , as would be expected , it is not the only significant factor in determining whether , and if so why and how , people seek legal advice . |
| 13 | The investigators reported from a previous publication in which they had compared these thirteen subjects with twenty-nine borderline schizophrenics , thirty-four neurotics and twenty-three high-risk subjects with no mental illness . |
| 14 | In the past strategy was dictated by head office while divisions and international businesses were left to implement actions in which they had played little or no part in developing . |
| 15 | By the middle 1950 's most of my generation were settling down to carving out their careers and bringing up families after the unsettling effects of the war years during which they had experienced all they wanted of adventure and excitement . |
| 16 | Across the field the bloom of the cherry tree , under which they had sat that morning , hung sodden and spoiled . |
| 17 | Then he felt , vibrating along the ground , the steady tread of a man going away beyond the crest over which they had come that morning . |
| 18 | The plants had been sown with cotton into a large book which , he was told , probably somewhat testily by Miller , William Sherard had borrowed and from which he had extracted some desirable specimens to incorporate them into his herbarium , bequeathed to Oxford University . |
| 19 | At a time when his health was failing , Hurter 's judgement was affected by emotional loyalty to the Leblanc process , to which he had made such valuable contributions in the past . |
| 20 | Take the statement that he wanted to see the German play of which he had heard some praise , and consider substituting the co-referring description " the Left-wing play whose inept performance will make him wish he had stayed at home " . |
| 21 | And ‘ Some would say I lived alone ’ : I remembered the scarcely concealed contempt with which he had said that . |
| 22 | He had preached a sermon in which he had said these words : ‘ It is dangerous to be a Christian in our nation . |
| 23 | After all , if the University was n't going to keep her on ( Swallow 's request had come , rather tactlessly , later in the very same day on which he had communicated this gloomy prognosis ) why should she put herself out to oblige the University ? |
| 24 | But he seemed anxious to show me his own poetry , with which he had filled several notebooks . |
| 25 | He flipped open the book whose pages were filled with her beautiful , careful script , which he had seen many times on the shopping lists which she had made up under Matey 's instructions . |
| 26 | Another factor was undoubtedly Layton 's own involvement with Greece , which went back to 1951 , about which he had written many poems . |
| 27 | But he appeared at the Old Bailey for an earlier trespass at Buckingham Palace , during which he had drunk some wine in the office of the Prince of Wales ' private secretary , and was sent to a secure hospital in Liverpool . |
| 28 | Chairman David Nairn thanked Grant for the open manner with which he had answered these questions and brought the first day 's business proceedings to and end . |
| 29 | He produced another sheet of paper on which he had typed some notes . |
| 30 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |