Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now a poised , elegant creature stared back , dressed in a stylish cowl-necked black dress which swooped dramatically at the back . |
| 2 | The unending toil , which ground on at the pace of the changing seasons and the constant struggle against relentless Nature would be in vain , as far as Jonadab Oaks was concerned , unless there were others of his name to follow in his footsteps and work this land to which he had devoted his life . |
| 3 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 4 | This implication was hardly lessened by the evidence of personal hostility between Teller and Oppy which came out at the inquiry . |
| 5 | Hope eavesdropped through the formalities , re-grouped and entered with an air of weariness which lifted instantly at the sight of Miss D'Arcy . |
| 6 | A most extraordinary ebullient , character , he was one of those lovable teddy-bears , but highly charged with emotion which spilled out at the slightest touch . |
| 7 | London 's latest ‘ five star ’ property is The Regent , which opened quietly at the beginning of the year under general manager Wolfgang Nitschke . |
| 8 | We all see with one pair of eyes , Raskolnikov 's , when the visual field narrows upon the back of an old woman 's head , her hair ‘ thick with grease , twisted into a rat's-tail plait and gathered up under what was left of a broken horn comb which stuck out at the nape of her neck ’ . |
| 9 | A small boy armed with a stick tried to beat off two hungry-looking dogs which sniffed suspiciously at the dead beggar 's bloody feet . |
| 10 | Each tier was held in place by tiny press studs which sprang apart at the least pressure . |
| 11 | He left behind him a baby daughter , a huge political and religious crisis , and a power-struggle far more savage than had ever been experienced before , which began literally at the death-bed . |
| 12 | The short cut turned out to be a lane which started abruptly at the bottom of a flight of steps opposite the Questura and ran straight down the hillside like a ruled line . |
| 13 | In this sense , the intellectual ‘ counter elite ’ were a catalyst of the demonstrations which broke out at the end of the year . |
| 14 | The concern was heightened by small fires which broke out at the Jaslovske Bohunice plant in southern Slovakia , 55 km from the border with Austria , on Jan. 15 , and at the Dukovany plant on Jan. 21 . |
| 15 | The mountain , eleven granite peaks rising between the gentle flow of the Dee in the north and the foaming River Muick in the south , was a presence which pulled everlastingly at the primitive senses of the people below it . |
| 16 | This reaches to the outer limits of hardcore with Carl Cox 's ‘ Rhythm Is A Drug ’ and the Wizard Of Oz 's ‘ Drowning In Your Blood Mix ’ which cleaned up at the band 's recent Heaven gig ( also backed with an ‘ Ahhhcapella ’ version which had them climbing the walls round at my place the other week ! ) . |
| 17 | Her wispy grey hair was tied back in a bun , and she wore a cotton housecoat which crossed over at the front and tied at the waist . |
| 18 | The sun flooded the ward , painting a red halo round Marek 's head and throwing Dexter 's face , which looked down at the floor disconsolately , into purple shadow . |
| 19 | He attacked the door , which caved in at the third blow . |
| 20 | The only form of private enterprise ( including building ) which aimed primarily at the mass market , apart from the market and small shop , was the tavern which became the elaborate ‘ gin-palace ’ in the Britain of the 1860s and 1870s — and its offspring the theatre and music-hall . |
| 21 | After capture at Tobruk as a chaplain he listened as well as lectured and poured himself out as father , brother and friend , empathising with the religious difficulties of his fellow prisoners which gnawed away at the rigid Anglo-Catholicism of more sheltered days . |
| 22 | They were being carried along a man-made gorge — a yellow road of sandstone flags between two red cliffs of plastered wall which sloped inward at the top , towards the building they were encircling . |
| 23 | The climax was reached in royal burials of the Han dynasty like those of Liu Sheng , Prince Qing of Qungshan , and his wife Dou Wan , which featured prominently at the Burlington House , London , exhibition of 1975 . |
| 24 | After a brief interval a reply in a lower key by a similarly religious bird came from what appeared to be a hummock of ivy on a small promontory which jutted out at the further end of the mere . |
| 25 | The day which ended terribly at the presidential palace started badly at the same venue . |