Example sentences of "which [vb past] them [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engineers were dominated by craft unionism which divided them by organization and levels of skill even within the newly created Amalgamated Engineering Union . |
| 2 | They had always been fed a diet of worksheets which led them along step by step — now they were thinking and making decisions for themselves . |
| 3 | But travellers in Latin America in the early twentieth century found there stations which led them into rhapsodies of praise . |
| 4 | The self-abnegation of Friends , emptying themselves the better to be filled by the Light Within , did not then necessarily exclude the pursuit of righteousness in the world ; equally , in the outlook of growing numbers of Quakers in the early nineteenth century , this stance could merge with a stress on the experience of grace which aligned them with evangelicals . |
| 5 | For the traditional élites , it was not charisma but pragmatic power considerations which aligned them with Hitler . |
| 6 | So they set about it , with the help of a co-op development agency , which provided them with management services . |
| 7 | Keoi look like ordinary human individuals — men and women — and in fact they were this at some time , but they performed a forbidden act which transformed them into keoi . |
| 8 | If the problems were not put right , Coun Dixon warned : ‘ We would be very sceptical of any housing association which used them in future . |
| 9 | But Labour 's lead over the SNP was 30 percentage points , a far cry from the four-point gap which separated them in January , in the wake of the nationalist victory at the Govan by-election . |
| 10 | Finally a solution was found — large numbers of animals were rapidly disposed of by sending them whole or shredded to a plant which turned them into fertiliser . |
| 11 | They constituted an ethnic minority , had a tribal organization independent of the Zuwaya , and an identity and language which linked them with Chad . |
| 12 | The ancient rituals which linked them to fertility and the renewal of life were abandoned . |
| 13 | The social engineering which placed them in positions of powerlessness ensured that the only female voice readily heard was that of the shrill tones of the satirised scold — a literary stereotype . |
| 14 | In the past they worked as long as they were able : it was illness rather than age as such which placed them in need . |
| 15 | The 106 entrants in the gruelling marathon set off from London on a route which took them through Europe to Turkey in classic cars ranging from a Ford Cortina to a Russian Moskvitch , all at least 25 years old . |
| 16 | Only those who were sufficiently moved by piety or curiosity to go on a pilgrimage to the celebrated shrine of Santiago de Compostella , on roads which took them through Aquitaine , can have learned anything at all about the land which was to be the chief concern of Richard 's life . |
| 17 | A magazine was preparing a cover story on the emergence of Jack the star and in their background investigations , which took them to Neptune in search of old chums , discovered the secret that Mud had kept from him since birth . |
| 18 | Thus the ‘ Originals ’ were in a sense on probation from the moment they clambered into the lorries which took them to Kabrit . |
| 19 | Following him out of the office and down into the street , sitting beside him in the cab which took them to Covent Garden , sitting opposite him in the warm restaurant full of good smells , candlelight , fresh flowers , her predominant feeling was one of surprise . |
| 20 | He and the two girls , Sara and Christina , were rescued by a passing taxi , which took them to Guy 's . |
| 21 | So eager were the Highlanders to be in action that they charged forward prematurely , to be swept by further fire from the hated artillery as well as by musket shots from the opposing infantry and from a detachment under the 18-year-old [ later Major-General ] James Wolfe , posted on the royal left flank , which took them in enfilade . |
| 22 | Copy dates prevent an account of this year 's adventure but here is a shortened version of the 1992 event which took them from Edinburgh to Monte Carlo , to a final position of 26th out of 102 starters and third in class . |
| 23 | Back home this week , Mr Ivor Simon and Mr David Brown , both member of Teesside Yesteryear Motor Club , spoke of the six-day adventure which took them from Edinburgh to the Mediterranean coast . |
| 24 | He spent several weeks calling on the homes around his church to discover the needs of the community and the inhibitions which kept them from church attendance ( Schuller 1974:81 ) . |
| 25 | The reciprocity measures , as originally drafted in 1988 , had aroused particularly strong protests from the USA and from Japan , which saw them as part of a protectionist " fortress Europe " policy designed to exclude non-EC institutions . |
| 26 | It was only the circumstances of the minority which brought them into conflict , and even then the rivalry should probably not be seen as inevitable . |
| 27 | It was only the circumstances of the minority which brought them into conflict , and even then the rivalry should probably not be seen as inevitable . |
| 28 | What evidence is there that these overt policies and covert assumptions have outlived the political and economic structures which brought them into being ? |
| 29 | The offences which brought them into prison tend to be extremely cold-blooded . |
| 30 | Bush and Gorbachev merely represent the forces which brought them to office and merely pursue an agenda so predetermined that its outcome could have been predicted in advance . |