Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such example is : ( 189 ) … the cry which made me suddenly to re-enter the dimension of distinctness . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | What if she had had a threatening letter which worried her enough to make her turn to pills ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |