Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made love to her with a driving desperation that matched the excesses which were to shock her in retrospect , and if his flesh bore the imprint of her nails and teeth afterwards , there were faint reciprocal marks on her body , mostly the legacy of an erotically suckling mouth . |
| 2 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 3 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 4 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 5 | Burghley Park became his study and there he formulated his religious ideas which were to alienate him from society for the rest of his life . |
| 6 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 7 | The seeds of these two sorts were sent from Peru by Mr. Joseph de Jussieu to the Royal garden at Paris , part of which was sent me by his brother Bernard de Jussieu of the Royal Academy of Science ’ |
| 8 | The rest were employed at present between Stavros and Episkopi , loading and transporting the casks to the warehouses to await the arrival of the all-important galley which was to take them to Venice . |
| 9 | Milton had no intention of sharing the unpopularity which was attaching itself to Sir James and promptly referred the matter to the Solicitor-General for action , but the end result , as Mrs. Campbell pointed out , was that ‘ our Member has lost his interest in this parish and really by most of our friends in the shire ’ . |
| 10 | She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income . |
| 11 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 12 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |
| 13 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |
| 14 | Ten miles away on that December evening , Walter Schellenberg lit a cigarette in the back of the Mercedes which was speeding him towards the castle . |
| 15 | The birds proved to be merely the lure which was to draw us into ten years of adventure through a land of waking dreams . |
| 16 | It was that which was cutting her in two as she dangled from it . |
| 17 | His objection was that these poetic celebrations of the coarse side of army life were an offence against English traditions of Christian civilisation , forming part of a larger ‘ back wave ’ which was manifesting itself in various ways : ‘ the Hooligan in Politics , in Literature , and Journalism ’ , ‘ the Hooligan spirit of patriotism ’ , and all the other barbaric symptoms of ‘ the restless and uninstructed Hooliganism of the time ’ above which ‘ the flag of a Hooligan Imperialism is raised ’ . |
| 18 | Thus developed in Lebanon a pattern of events which was to recreate itself in increasingly savage form over the coming years . |
| 19 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 20 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 21 | She 'd also left the heating on for him , which was doing nothing except heating the window-sill for the pigeons and running up my bills . |
| 22 | So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot . |
| 23 | Behind the scenes , Sir Reginald was negotiating with political leaders about the composition of the Executive Council which was to assist him in the government of the country until elections could be held . |
| 24 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 25 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 26 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 27 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |