Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The longest-running powder ski of this type was the Fischer Future Extreme , which only went out of production a couple of years ago . |
| 9 | was also fully occupied , planning a surprise honeymoon to California , which only found out about when they reached the airport . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had to keep up rental payments which finally mounted up to £570 a quarter — regardless . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Long lost ‘ friends ’ suddenly received phone calls which quickly edged round to the appalling standard of the existing Sunday papers . |
| 18 | The project , now scheduled for the first two weekends of June , went into the May issue of Spokesworker and was given front page treatment in the main newsletter , which also came out in May . |
| 19 | So while the island of Krakatoa ended up considerably smaller , Yerlaten Island and Lang Island ended up much bigger , due to the accumulation on them of enormous volumes of ash , which also piled up in the sea to form ‘ sand ’ banks . |
| 20 | Speculation that a bid for tyre and exhaust fitter Kwik Fit was imminent fuelled a 20p rise which later slipped back to 9p , closing at 97p . |
| 21 | A petrol bomb was hurled at police as they chased a car containing two men which later careered out of control and plunged 12 feet into a river near Devizes , Wilts , yesterday . |
| 22 | The guide caused a bit of stir in Lakeland circles with the author 's comments on Paul Ross 's route Prodigal Son ( comments which later turned out to be misplaced ) . |
| 23 | Making constructions from mundane materials : wood , string , glass , wire , plastic and such-like to define and encompass his concepts of space , energy , weight and transparency was for Lanyon a lifelong exercise which both grew out of and was channelled back into his paintings , thus extending the parameters of his vision and adding a further element to his work . |
| 24 | ‘ Between October and January I thought through what I wanted to do , and came to the conclusion that it had to be a change and it had to be something I was interested in , which really came down to working with people . |
| 25 | A short walk along the coastline past the few prettily painted small hotels brought us to the gorgeous bay lined with palm trees which we shared with the numerous shy crabs which intermittently popped out of the holes in the white sand . |
| 26 | Then , though he boasted of this and that , it was with an underlying modesty which often spilled over into self-mockery . |
| 27 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 28 | Jose-Maria Olazabal finished on a better note with a 70 and was five under par for the last three rounds , which partially made up for his first round of 76 . |
| 29 | After that tour , Western Province employed both myself and Graham Gooch for two winters , which partially made up for the fees we lost by not being able to tour with England during the three-year Test ban . |
| 30 | These figures take no account of the numbers employed in ancillary activities , such as delivery-men , cab-drivers , and employees of businesses like shops , cafes , and hotels , which regularly sprang up in the environs of the great railway termini . |