Example sentences of "which [vb past] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outer skin of any craft which passed through the air barrier of a force field stored static electricity like a giant capacitor . |
| 2 | A map recovered from the wreckage showed a direct track drawn between Blackbushe and Cranfield which passed through the north west comer of the Luton special rules zone . |
| 3 | It protected the entrance to a tunnel which passed through the wall , and Rostov was amazed at its length . |
| 4 | In recent years a bypass was built , considerably lessening the load of traffic which passed through the village , and a period of comparative peace was enjoyed . |
| 5 | Girobank handled £47m in retail deposits and transactions last year , which the bank says works out at £1 in every £3 which passed through the nation 's tills . |
| 6 | A crewman in Samoa , which passed through the Sunda Straits shortly after the eruption , described seeing bodies and pumice stretching all the way to the horizon . |
| 7 | For five months , Marina has called the cellar home , ever since Serbian soldiers lobbed grenades which crashed through the roof and blew apart her parents ' flat . |
| 8 | The three were alleged to have been part of a 30-strong gang which rampaged through the park on April 19 , 1989 , making a series of unprovoked attacks which culminated in the gang-rape of the jogger who was left unconscious with severe head injuries . |
| 9 | " She 's in voluntary liquidation , " said Martha , but she fetched a piece of old towelling and began to rub the cat , which squinted through the folds of white material like Lazarus through the grave-clothes . |
| 10 | WRECKED : Burnt-out cars blitzed by the fireball which roared through the plant |
| 11 | ‘ Soon after that a different Man came by car and he put me in a carrier cage and took me into the darkness of a long journey , over bumpy roads , on to a ship , and into the most terrible place of all , an iron cage with obscured windows , which raced through the night clattering and clattering , a regular rhythm of metallic sound . |
| 12 | THE 1,000lb IRA bomb which ripped through the centre of Armagh on Friday morning highlighted again the security nightmare facing Ulster towns . |
| 13 | It was in that office on the fourth floor that I heard and felt the city of Dublin roar and shudder with the explosion of three massive bombs which ripped through the heart of the city and its people . |
| 14 | Calcutta 's police chief , Tushar Talukdar , said forensic scientists would decide whether the explosion , which ripped through the buildings shortly after midnight , had been caused by careless handling of a cache of explosives or by a bomb . |
| 15 | A PENSIONER was killed and her husband critically injured yesterday in an explosion which ripped through the ground floor of their home . |
| 16 | That being so , the building society , which claimed through the Hammonds could not rely on estoppel by deed . |
| 17 | A centuries-old road bridge which is a protected landmark , has been badly damaged by a tractor which smashed through the parapet . |
| 18 | You are not from this world , he says , and you came here in a metal ship which flew through the air . |
| 19 | The crunch of the impact between the two wings smothered the crack and whine of the bullet , which drilled through the windscreen before his face . |
| 20 | Like the politics of the miners which seamed through the talk of his brothers , never as vivid as the ‘ stories ’ but always there , those early films provided him with examples of acting which he must have absorbed willy-nilly . |
| 21 | Again she was silent for a moment or two , looking down at the carpet of tawny beech leaves , debris of the previous autumn , now shimmering in the dappled shafts of light which struggled through the tree canopy . |
| 22 | which fell through the fields , our mother singing |
| 23 | Margaret Lannon , 68 , died instantly in the blast which tore through the ground floor of her semi-detached property in Heyford Road , Marsh Green . |
| 24 | I am not intending to go through the report in detail erm but I hope that I we will now need to draw attention to one or two issues erm which are of particular concern and which emerged through the consultation process . |
| 25 | A friendly encounter gave a glow which lasted through the night . |
| 26 | The move , condemned by the International Labour Organization , led to a dispute which lasted through the decade . |
| 27 | A single road , holed and pockmarked , connected the prison 's main gates to a small tarmac road which wound through the hills and moors like a dry tongue in search of water . |
| 28 | Slowly he hung his trousers on a hanger , which he placed on the communal rail which ran through the dressing room . |
| 29 | Once during rectification of a fault his team located the problem as being due to broken wires in a cable loom which ran through the communications tunnel . |
| 30 | ‘ Melin ’ is Welsh for ‘ mill ’ , and the Meloch was the river which ran through the property , from which the diversion from the weir through the millpond , under the road and out into the famous River Dee would supply our needs . |