Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early television sets , when you turned them off , used to leave a blob of light in the middle of the screen , which slowly diminished from the size of a florin to an expiring speck . |
| 2 | She could not have brought herself to do as some did , step in and squash her body against the bodies of those who formed the dense wad of people which already bulged from the open doors . |
| 3 | A pre-filter of simple gravel ( we have tested a prototype GSM — not the new model — which still suffered from the age old problem of clogging , which also afflicts simple foam pre-filters ) . |
| 4 | Despite his good intentions , and despite the more rational management principles and institutions introduced by Speranskii , the actual administration of Siberia , the manner of its economic exploitation , the low levels of popular enlightenment , the permanently suppurating sore of the exile system , the treatment of the native population — which still ranged from the paternalistic to the spasmodically genocidal — and the survival of traditional ‘ imperialist ’ attitudes in St Petersburg , meant that in practice the old core-periphery , metropolis-frontier relationships still remained in force , and Siberia continued to be treated and governed in a manner which reflected its original quasi-colonial status . |
| 5 | The skull has recently been identified as the fossilized cranium of a white woman , at least 1,500 years old , which probably came from the burial ground on Pilsden Pen . |
| 6 | Industrial output fell by over 11 per cent in the course of the 1979 — 83 Parliament , a performance worse than in other western states which also suffered from the recession . |
| 7 | Sri Lanka , for whose tea exports Iraq was the second largest customer and which also suffered from the impact on its expatriate nationals and the loss of their earnings , sought international compensation for its reluctant imposition of sanctions . |
| 8 | Mr Garvey 's car , a Volvo estate , which also vanished from the family home at the same time as Mr Garvey , was found this afternoon at Great Yarmouth , parked in a side street . |
| 9 | One fact in the situation , which later emerged from the gossip of Baldwin , Anselm 's man of business , was that on his way to the meeting at Gloucester , Rufus had visited Wilton . |
| 10 | On the ceiling is a Baroque fresco , The Judgement of Solomon which originally came from the Burgrave 's House . |
| 11 | A new 15 foot tufting machine is also being installed for this purpose , replacing one which originally came from the Glenvale factory in Paisley . |
| 12 | In contrast to this complex and long-established system , which originally derived from the tribal period in early Celtic and Germanic Europe , we find that certain cities and merchants were freed of feudal ties . |
| 13 | Breeze and Gay went to meet her at Clyst St George station , and hardly recognized the ultra-smart figure which languidly emerged from the train , as the boon companion of not so long ago . |
| 14 | Other peoples which virtually disappeared from the map as a result of Russian colonialism were the Itelmens of Kamchatka and , eventually , their southern neighbours the Ainu . |
| 15 | Later , in a speech at Warsaw University , the Prince spoke with admiration of the Polish people 's struggle and talked to the veterans of the uprising in which people took to the streets against the Germans , expecting help which never came from the nearby Russian army . |