Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pers pn] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engineers were dominated by craft unionism which divided them by organization and levels of skill even within the newly created Amalgamated Engineering Union . |
| 2 | Moreover , to a very great extent bourgeois morality was actually applied ; indeed it may have become increasingly effective as the masses of the ‘ respectable ’ working classes adopted the values of the hegemonic culture , and the lower middle classes , which followed it by definition , grew in numbers . |
| 3 | Suddenly he despised Tolby , with a venom which took him by surprise . |
| 4 | It was the degree of darkness which took me by surprise . |
| 5 | He bent his head again , and this time it was his gentleness which took her by surprise . |
| 6 | A YOUNG Portadown businessman told today how a two-foot long piece of shrapnel which missed him by inches ended up embedded in an employee 's leg . |