Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adj] at " in BNC.

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1 As he rushed onwards it lengthened and curved , until he stood at the edge of a cold volcanic cauldron , looking down at the mountain 's secret , a still , dark lake which gleamed green at the foot of the crags .
2 Indeed , so long was their duration on Earth that those species which became extinct at the end were quite unlike those evolving from the reptiles in the early Triassic .
3 Gordon Bowers , Commercial Manager , is responsible for the day to day implementation of the new systems which became operational at the end of March .
4 It was followed by flash after flash , sheets or blue light which stabbed flat at the camp .
5 The Girls slept in cubicles with others , which seemed strange at first but the fun they generated helped to overcome any homesickness .
6 I thought I heard the sound of horses in the distance , which seemed strange at two o'clock in the morning .
7 Existentialism and all those other topical philosophies of the past three decades , which seemed important at the time , may have given him some guidelines .
8 Corbett stopped , calming his horse which grew skittish at the sight .
9 It consisted of two internal combustion engines coupled to 35k VA three-phase alternators , which generated current at 250 volts .
10 He said 7,000 other positions in marketing and service are also to be eventually cut from the workforce , which totalled 90,000 at the end of 1992 .
11 Both were missing from the side which won 4-2 at Colchester United on Friday evening and the Robins ' boss has to decide whether to stick with the makeshift back four which performed so well at Layer Road .
12 His studies formed the basis of his treatise on Parliament entitled The Manner of Holding Parliaments in England or Modus Tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos which remained unfinished at his death .
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