Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 The duties attached to some of these appointments were not too arduous , which made them all the more attractive to a landed gentleman with other interests but a great desire for an increased income .
2 Always small things , nothing she could have a qualm about accepting , which made them all the more delightful .
3 Almost simultaneously , under Ferdinand of Aragon , Miguel Perez de Alamàn began to specialise in the control and direction of relations with other states in a way which made him probably the nearest approach to a minister of foreign affairs hitherto seen anywhere in Europe .
4 Which made it all the harder to understand why Wilkinson had not begun with Cantona in the side on a summery day that seemed ideally suited to his ball-playing skills .
5 And the minority who chose to behave in this way were mostly aware that they had no one to blame but themselves — which made it all the more painful .
6 He said it very simply , which made it all the more believable .
7 So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage .
8 For some of their land to be handed over to the Roman soldiers was a bitter pill to swallow , for it meant the loss of the Colne peninsula and much else , which left them only the Essex marches and lands to the north and the area round modern Chelmsford , which probably became their tribal centre .
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