Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As herds of humans dressed as cows ( at least , that 's what our eyes told us ) wander up and down Bleecker Street , we slump and watch The Shams , three women dressed as men , play an acoustic set which publicised their sexual fantasies . |
| 2 | Dimity ran the house , it appeared , and it was her slender arms that bore in the coal scuttles , the heavy shopping baskets and the laden trays , while Ella 's powerful hands designed wood blocks , mixed paint and stamped the lengths of materials which draped their little cottage . |
| 3 | HARRY NEUBAUER , who has died aged 59 , was a psychiatrist of multifarious qualities — not least an exuberant personality which lent his earnest profession a splash of much-needed colour . |
| 4 | Unlike Arundel and the Howard family , his essential loyalty to the Tudor cause was never doubted but he remained a Catholic and had to face a compromise which lessened his personal authority . |
| 5 | A notarial instrument of April 1288 recorded the agreement specifying the position of the common wall which divided their respective quarters . |
| 6 | Cray Research Inc has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which lowered its subordinated debt rating to triple-B-minus from triple-B and it revised the ratings outlook to stable from negative , affecting about $106m of rated debt . |
| 7 | The self-control and lucidity which Nizan displayed as an adult when retrospectively assessing his father , particularly in Antoine Bloye should not mask the fact that this was a moment of structural crisis in Nizan 's development , a moment which coloured his entire existence and shaped his underlying psyche irreversibly. 1916 was a moment of total psychological disruption . |
| 8 | For the first time she gave vent to loud screams , which became her usual method of attracting attention from that time : ‘ this manner of crying endured many years after this time , for aught any man might do , and therefore , suffered she much despite and much reproof ’ . |
| 9 | Mhoira Robertson did take up golf , which became her favourite pastime , and eventually the promotions came , first as Director of studies and Chief Inspector at Tulliallan Police College and finally in 1987 as Superintendent within the Lothians and Borders force . |
| 10 | Lazarus 's business ambitions soon elevated him from storeman to lumber merchant , thence to a partnership in the coal industry which became his sole business — L. Cohen and Son — after a few years , and hence to a high-profile dredging company which could boast that it had kept every one of the lifelines of the young nation — the St. Lawrence tributaries between Lake Ontario and Quebec — open . |
| 11 | After a heavy assault , he took the great city of Toledo which became his chief fortress on the eastern frontier , extending his kingdom still further into Moorish territory . |
| 12 | Southwestern Bell Corp , St Louis , got a clean bill of health from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which affirmed its Southwestern Bell Telephone Co 's A-plus senior unsecured debt and A-1 commercial paper and said the ratings outlook is stable . |
| 13 | He stared at her while drawing in a deep breath , which expanded his broad chest further ; then he said , ‘ Well , if you want to know , you should n't look as you do ; you attract the wrong kind . |
| 14 | Tight black slacks , black skinny-ribbed top , a length of ash-blonde hair cut with a fringe which met her arched brows . |
| 15 | But The Smiths now found that success tends to complicate situations which made their initial stance of well meant integrity and the desire to do things differently ( ‘ We do n't wish to become pop stars ’ ) a virtual impossibility . |
| 16 | Belinda , who has had chemotherapy which made her blonde hair fall out , had just one thing on her mind yesterday — her present . |
| 17 | Out of all her workmates , Kerry was possibly the least friendly , which made her current show of concern all the more special . |
| 18 | Dr James Freemont , pathologist , of Manchester Royal Infirmary , said Clare died after developing internal bleeding which made her major organs fail . |
| 19 | One senior officer described policewomen as having an ‘ instinct for tidiness ’ which made them good administrators ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 33 ) ; frequently they were described as being suited to dealing with child and female offences because of their more compassionate natures compared to male colleagues . |
| 20 | Almost all of the early wines were fortified with a good glug of grape spirit tossed into the fermenting brew , which made them mighty bruisers . |
| 21 | He had been caught in the spiral which made his contemporary Polybius the champion of Roman law and order . |
| 22 | The electronic strains of a synthesized choir could be heard above the rumbling exhausts and Harry , gazing out at the tinsel-hung shopfronts , wondered if it was this jangling ubiquity of Christmas spirit which made his fellow men and women seem so dismally ignoble . |
| 23 | Finch was a man with no zone of indifference and a lifelong distaste for milky kindnesses , which made his present wish to push Henry away and into a career of his own both powerful and covert . |
| 24 | I rose , broke my fast and slipped the landlord some pieces of silver which made his vinegarish face look more congenial and subservient . |
| 25 | I tried to get the trade unions into a form which made my managerial activities easier rather than trying to let them find a consensus between themselves . |
| 26 | My hand was throbbing and light-headedness was giving way to a headache which made my left eyebrow twitch . |
| 27 | It requires riverside sites vacated by traditional shipbuilding and port functions and is absolutely dependent on a work force which got its initial training in ship-building and -repair . |
| 28 | He also conducted extensive tests on his engines , which demonstrated their high efficiency and gained him a reputation as a highly scientific engineer . |
| 29 | It was a great victory over the gods of Egypt which demonstrated his total supremacy . |
| 30 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |