Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pers pn] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French master chef , dressed in his long bespattered apron , stood by his post chopping , slicing , stirring and mixing with a vigour which drenched him in sweat whilst he swore at his apprentices for this or that . |
| 2 | If the problems were not put right , Coun Dixon warned : ‘ We would be very sceptical of any housing association which used them in future . |
| 3 | But Labour 's lead over the SNP was 30 percentage points , a far cry from the four-point gap which separated them in January , in the wake of the nationalist victory at the Govan by-election . |
| 4 | I saw that I was going to have to find a job before I did something rash which landed me in prison . |
| 5 | After they had brought her home , she developed a collapsed lung , pneumonia , and later gastroenteritis , which landed her in hospital again . |
| 6 | The star of the show was the remarkable Malawian writer Jack Mapanje , perhaps Africa 's best known English language poet , who read some of the poems which landed him in Zomba jail without charge or trial for almost four years . |
| 7 | And the raid which hit It in April 1969 had its effect on Oz too . |
| 8 | The social engineering which placed them in positions of powerlessness ensured that the only female voice readily heard was that of the shrill tones of the satirised scold — a literary stereotype . |
| 9 | In the past they worked as long as they were able : it was illness rather than age as such which placed them in need . |
| 10 | So eager were the Highlanders to be in action that they charged forward prematurely , to be swept by further fire from the hated artillery as well as by musket shots from the opposing infantry and from a detachment under the 18-year-old [ later Major-General ] James Wolfe , posted on the royal left flank , which took them in enfilade . |
| 11 | Shortly before the second anniversary of her wedding Mrs Tristan Gage suffered a miscarriage which kept her in bed for several cosseted days surrounded by every possible luxury and attention , including the embarrassed affection of her husband who had rather more idea how mares and hound bitches might feel at such moments than women , and the deep concern of her mother who , throughout her own twenty-six years of marriage had herself miscarried eight times . |
| 12 | All three of the plaintiff 's friends were killed in the accident and the plaintiff sustained very grave injuries which kept her in hospitals and a rehabilitation centre for almost three years . |
| 13 | He did hurt his back and lost a fair chuck of elbow on the side instruments which kept him in hospital in the UK for a couple of weeks . |
| 14 | If Marcos was cynical , he was no more so than the American foreign policy which kept him in power and in clover for 20 years . |
| 15 | He made contacts which brought him in touch with Jack Kent Cook who ran Saturday Night Magazine . |
| 16 | He then contacted Greenpeace , which put him in touch with Scharfenstein . |
| 17 | She was referring to the illness which put him in hospital last year before he was moved out of Pollsmoor to his present quarters , formerly a prison warden 's home . |
| 18 | 6 weeks after the jump which put him in hospital , Rex Pritchard is back on his feet , though he now a steel rod in his right leg . |
| 19 | He 's still recovering from the knee injury which put him in hospital last February . |
| 20 | ‘ Through all the exhaustion and fear of the disastrous 1986 climb , Kurt Diemberger felt himself at one with creation , part of the ‘ endless knot ’ which put him in harmony with the cosmos and with a force which in the end was to save his life . ’ |
| 21 | In July 1616 , on the embassy of James , Lord Hay ( later first Earl of Carlisle , q.v. ) in marriage negotiations between Princess Christina and Prince Charles , he suffered a serious accidental fall which left him in France for some months after the embassy . |
| 22 | In fact almost every large Greek bronze we have owes its survival to some accident which sequestered it in antiquity : a shipwreck , a fall of rock . |