Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It suggested that there was something about the man , some unknown factor which made him slightly suspect in the eyes of the authorities . |
| 2 | John Coffin walked away , marvelling at the strangeness of life which made him now mourn a petty criminal whom he had not liked and whom no one had appeared to love , and who might , just possibly , have also poisoned three people . |
| 3 | The world is redeemed because of the sanctity of this man Jesus , because of the love for his Father and for his sisters and brothers which made him totally accept his mission from the Father . |
| 4 | He claimed he had been glue-sniffing which made him sexually aroused . |
| 5 | What prompted her to invite him she could not have explained , but there was something about him — an air of loneliness , perhaps , though it was more than that — which made her suddenly want to tell him that he could rely on her friendship . |
| 6 | The enormity of ‘ one roof ’ had taken her by surprise , and it was perhaps the way that had stiffened her which made her now feel so free , so beyond obligation . |
| 7 | At this time still a regular smoker , I made one film which made me drastically change my views about it . |
| 8 | One such example is : ( 189 ) … the cry which made me suddenly to re-enter the dimension of distinctness . |
| 9 | Sentence 12a has two possible readings , which can be roughly glossed ( i ) ‘ I did something which caused him almost to die ’ , and ( ii ) ‘ I almost did something which caused him to die . ’ |
| 10 | It is often the way with Mughal ruins : while the more primitive forts which preceded them still have an aura of power as they rise solid and impregnable from the burning plains , the silky refinement expressed in Mughal architecture turns , in decay , to something approaching seediness . |
| 11 | What if she had had a threatening letter which worried her enough to make her turn to pills ? ’ |
| 12 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 13 | At the far end was St. Giles Church — which meant we never had an excuse for being late anywhere as the bells tolled the hour — and the quarters — right through the night |
| 14 | It was stuffy but bearable and , despite his length , large enough , provided he remained crouched in the foetal position ; which meant he nearly gagged from the smell of almonds . |
| 15 | Once again , he was his own man , went his own way which meant he often lacked utterly the pleasing , the plasticine complicity a great screen actor needs . |
| 16 | This may have been the factor which enabled him alone to burn clinker successfully , since a glass kiln would be more likely to reach the temperatures required for successful burning of Portland cement rather than the lime-burning kiln used by his competitors . |
| 17 | But I had many other interests which kept me fully occupied at the time . |
| 18 | If Liz and Owen had n't had that accident , which brought us together to look after the twins , we might never have found each other again ! ’ she cried , feeling almost faint as she fell back on the pillows , hardly able to bear the thought of how narrowly they had averted a lifetime of unhappiness . |
| 19 | Smith also remembered Minton 's advice that if a picture was going badly he should sit back , view it coldly and decide which bit he really liked . |
| 20 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 21 | I was articled in Worthing in 1966 with the Borough Council where I undertook a wide variety of conveyancing and litigation , and as a local authority employee , I was authorised to appear on its behalf in the Magistrates ' Court which gave me early experience in advocacy . |
| 22 | It was a charge that was to dog us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections , and which did us more damage than any other health issue . |
| 23 | The Fascist youth organizations which replaced them never went camping , or learned how to cook , or developed any other outdoor skills . |
| 24 | The intellectual domination and the emotional charge which carried it rapidly whipped him out of his old ways . |
| 25 | The gentle fanfare-like first movement melody tenderly laid out by the flautist , John Grant , Yuasa had the strings repeat with an ungainly skip , which left him little to develop . |
| 26 | Holyfield 's sensitivity outside the ring , which left him genuinely touched when he was recognised by non-boxing people in Barcelona during this year 's Olympics , extends to the criticism that champions in all sport have to learn to live with . |
| 27 | John Major 's announcement — which left him obviously shaken — was the culmination of a day of behind-the-scenes constitutional drama which began at 10am with a crisis meeting of the Government 's top ministers . |
| 28 | He bore her down to the carpet , his face hard against hers , one hand pulling up her skirts , and when she still struggled struck her a blow which left her half stunned on the floor , for him to do as he would with her . |
| 29 | They drew up some papers which said they legally owned it . |
| 30 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |