Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other end of the scale , Plymouth Laira gained a small fleet of Class 37s which rarely ventured away from the West Country china clay empire , although a new trainload working was introduced in 1989 which would take them twice a week up to Irvine in South West Scotland . |
| 2 | In 1952 they started leaving sweet potatoes on the beach at the forest edge , as food for the macaques , which duly came out of the forest and ate them . |
| 3 | In some places you can find dozens of enrolled trilobites together ; these are the remains of the animals themselves , not the moults , which presumably perished together after a fruitless attempt to protect themselves from a miniature catastrophe such as a sudden influx of sediment . |
| 4 | Griffin 's first round victory had left him with an eye fully closed which eventually opened slightly before last night 's win against Franke . |
| 5 | Wordsworth , on the other hand , placed more value on Nature as a religious and moral agent ; he began those speculations about the meaning and direction of his own life which eventually built up into The Prelude . |
| 6 | De Chaboulon recalled : ‘ The looting delayed the enemy 's pursuit which eventually caught up with us at Quatre Bras and they fell upon our carriages . |
| 7 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 8 | But he above is a representative of the general tone of the interview which constantly referred back to the suspiciously ‘ instant ’ political aspects of the band . |
| 9 | But a survey on , let us say , political questions , which suddenly came up with questions about husband-wife relations , would almost certainly result in the questions being queried at the very least . |
| 10 | Dunlop , giving his new Honda : which only came out of the crate on Thursday : its first run , finished second to Paul Harbinson in the first race before beating Stephen Farmer and Gary Dynes in the second race . |
| 11 | The longest-running powder ski of this type was the Fischer Future Extreme , which only went out of production a couple of years ago . |
| 12 | was also fully occupied , planning a surprise honeymoon to California , which only found out about when they reached the airport . |
| 13 | The fourth class of sites is also characterized by an irregular and haphazard network of internal streets and lanes , but one which apparently developed independently of major through routes . |
| 14 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 15 | The great Da Ponte operas have been constantly in the international repertory since the early years of the century ( with the exception of Così fan tutte , which finally came back into its own in the 1950s ) ; while the lesser-known ones such as Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito are now taking their place alongside their more familiar stable-mates . |
| 16 | At its meeting in February 1972 the CNAA endorsed an initiative by the Chairmen of the two bodies to suggest entering into discussions about the possibility of an amalgamation — which finally came about in 1974 . |
| 17 | She had to keep up rental payments which finally mounted up to £570 a quarter — regardless . |
| 18 | Covering a broader range than the single-issue groups , they presented reports and analyses on a wide range of economic and social issues which generally looked forward to the legislation of the 1940s . |
| 19 | Exports had doubled from 1700 to 1740 to a value of £1,164,000 which generally held steady until the 1760s . |
| 20 | Our next port of call would be Bira again , which anyway lay directly on our course back eastwards , and where some unfinished business remained to be settled . |
| 21 | She picked up a brass poker and stirred up the fire which already burnt brightly in the grate . |
| 22 | Such was the reaction to the song that Rough Trade bravely released a single which already featured twice in the record collections of the die hard followers . |
| 23 | The towns which thus sprung up at some railway centres are examples of the way in which individuality was lost , and lately the housing estate has spread a new uniformity even more widely over the country . |
| 24 | The Microprocessor Report claims Motorola Inc , which just got together with SunSoft Inc to put Solaris on the PowerPC , will likely pursue a Microsoft Corp Windows NT port to attract other customers besides those it 's already got . |
| 25 | Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year . |
| 26 | This wide disposition yielded felicitous effects of colour and tone which always fell pleasingly on the ear . |
| 27 | Although it was summer a fire burned in the great stone hearth — embers which were all that were left of logs which had been burned during the night to repel the damp which always crept out of the stone walls . |
| 28 | Long lost ‘ friends ’ suddenly received phone calls which quickly edged round to the appalling standard of the existing Sunday papers . |
| 29 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 30 | I pointed to my gun which still hung loosely from the hand at his side . |