Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pers pn] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 42 ) If he was small enough to sell his Lord for so little , how account for the remorse which led him to suicide when he realized that Christ was to be slain ? |
| 2 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
| 3 | But there is a more immediate aim for striker Ian Wright who is fighting a fitness battle to return in the live Sky TV game against the club which sold him to Highbury less than a year ago and show he is still the man England need . |
| 4 | She claims that two years later pupils began taunting her about her weight both in the playground and the classroom which reduced her to tears . |
| 5 | It was later announced Aideed 's radio station had been destroyed by the Spectres which reduced it to rubble in a sustained attack of pinpoint accuracy . |
| 6 | There was , too , something unaccountable about Richard — perhaps the same wilfulness that induced him to live offshore although his marriage was in a perilous state — which attracted him to Pratts because celebrations were only held there for the death of a king or queen . |
| 7 | The ancient rituals which linked them to fertility and the renewal of life were abandoned . |
| 8 | Fraud investigators say he posted hundreds of fake job applications last year , a few in Russian , a few in Turkish — anything to impress the big oil companies , some of which flew him to Riyadh and Aberdeen for interviews . |
| 9 | With him , she felt none of the seething intoxication of love or lust or whatever it was which called her to Cameron . |
| 10 | He lay face down beside me , not knowing that I was now painfully aware that the threads which bound me to home and the inevitable marriage had snapped once and for all . |
| 11 | A magazine was preparing a cover story on the emergence of Jack the star and in their background investigations , which took them to Neptune in search of old chums , discovered the secret that Mud had kept from him since birth . |
| 12 | Thus the ‘ Originals ’ were in a sense on probation from the moment they clambered into the lorries which took them to Kabrit . |
| 13 | Following him out of the office and down into the street , sitting beside him in the cab which took them to Covent Garden , sitting opposite him in the warm restaurant full of good smells , candlelight , fresh flowers , her predominant feeling was one of surprise . |
| 14 | He and the two girls , Sara and Christina , were rescued by a passing taxi , which took them to Guy 's . |
| 15 | He then made his New York début in 1931 as the squalid murderer in Payment Deferred , before accepting a Hollywood offer which took him to California for The Old Dark House ( 1932 ) and his first Nero in The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ) . |
| 16 | The £45,000 Pinzgauer carried Mr Richards , of Linthorpe Road , Middlesbrough , to a waiting ambulance , which took him to Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 17 | One of his passengers dropped the Cessna 's dinghy to the JetRanger 's pilot , who was subsequently picked up by an RAF SAR helicopter which took him to hospital in Blackpool suffering from hypothermia . |
| 18 | But it was chance alone which took him to Covent Garden . |
| 19 | Kylie kept up a relentless pace during the tour , which took her to Newcastle , Manchester and Liverpool before one appearance in Scotland at Edinburgh 's Playhouse Theatre . |
| 20 | The military passing by called up a helicopter which took her to hospital in Mogadishu but she died five minutes after her arrival . |
| 21 | The bedclothes had been pushed down , which enabled her to edge from under his arm without disturbing him . |
| 22 | He had been active in south Wales under Edward IV , being made chamberlain there in 1479 , and it may have been this which brought him to Gloucester 's attention . |
| 23 | He had been active in south Wales under Edward IV , being made chamberlain there in 1479 , and it may have been this which brought him to Gloucester 's attention . |
| 24 | Bush and Gorbachev merely represent the forces which brought them to office and merely pursue an agenda so predetermined that its outcome could have been predicted in advance . |
| 25 | Which brought us to fame . |
| 26 | which brought us to Cracow . |
| 27 | One maverick publication , The Return of William Shakespeare ( 1929 ) , featured an inspired chapter of Shakespearian criticism framed by an unconvincing science-fictional device which removed it to shelves not visited by scholars . |
| 28 | He was brought up in South Africa , and at the age of six had a serious accident which confined him to bed for three years . |
| 29 | While on the voyage he read Lyell 's Principles of Geology and was soon making observations on the gradual elevation of the Andes , which converted him to uniformitarianism . |
| 30 | Couples , the US Player of the Year and defending a title which inspired him to glory at Augusta last April , regained his compsure to cover the last seven holes in one under par . |