Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | THE wayward Marquess of Blandford last night claimed it was a lost love which led him into drug addiction . |
| 3 | ( 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They had always been fed a diet of worksheets which led them along step by step — now they were thinking and making decisions for themselves . |
| 6 | Back to the beginning , and the archery shafts which led us into carbon tubes and the generation of so many new designs for steerable aerobatic kites . |
| 7 | So they set about it , with the help of a co-op development agency , which provided them with management services . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If the problems were not put right , Coun Dixon warned : ‘ We would be very sceptical of any housing association which used them in future . |
| 10 | Within a few months , in late 1954 , the Senate censured him and although Nixon , his loyal backer in the past , considerately struck out the word Censure from the resolution , which condemned him for conduct unbecoming to the Senate , he was finished in Washington . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was something she had never anticipated , a circumstance which filled her with alarm . |
| 13 | To form a New Testament canon was to give special importance to the written tradition , imparting a fixity which protected it against adulteration . |
| 14 | Shapland and Hobbs ( 1989 ) consider many low status activities are effectively invisible , while Chatterton and Rogers ( 1989 ) acknowledge many cultural inhibitors , ranging from a lack of trust between the ranks to a ‘ number of deeply rooted myths about the existing police systems which protected it from criticism and disguised its deficiencies ’ . |
| 15 | Finally a solution was found — large numbers of animals were rapidly disposed of by sending them whole or shredded to a plant which turned them into fertiliser . |
| 16 | The ancient rituals which linked them to fertility and the renewal of life were abandoned . |
| 17 | Pound was a bohemian figure , despite his Quaker origins , who espoused an anti-credit economic philosophy which thrust him into anti-Semitism . |
| 18 | I saw that I was going to have to find a job before I did something rash which landed me in prison . |
| 19 | After they had brought her home , she developed a collapsed lung , pneumonia , and later gastroenteritis , which landed her in hospital again . |
| 20 | Rose Hilaire had a waking dream , one which followed her into sleep and came out again the other side to stay with her all day , going with her into Belmodes side by side like a fellow worker . |
| 21 | In keeping with the book 's leitmotif , however , let's ignore all that and focus instead on the rich images of Lamb in shock at the lunch interval after weathering 22 bouncers among the preceding 24 balls ; of Dexter losing interest after fielding all day in 90 degrees at Karachi ; of the normally taciturn Peter May sounding off about the regime which followed him as chairman of selectors ; of the ‘ terror of spin ’ and the West Indian ‘ throat-theory ’ reign of terror , attributed in part to the meatiness of their backsides . |
| 22 | He thought of his own rigorous training , the constant reports on his work and conduct which followed him from computer base to computer base . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | DRAYTON Asia Trust yesterday joined in a war of words with EFM Dragon , the Edinburgh-managed investment trust which targeted it for takeover a fortnight ago . |
| 25 | In the past they worked as long as they were able : it was illness rather than age as such which placed them in need . |
| 26 | They played chess and bezique and silly paper games , Alexandra attempted sketches of him which convulsed him with laughter and read comic poems to him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Suddenly he despised Tolby , with a venom which took him by surprise . |