Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , the basic instinct which seemed to tell many people that they needed a good ‘ clean out ’ , and that nasty things could happen while waste matter lingered around in the body , seems to have been largely correct . |
| 2 | Miller frequently mentions Sherard 's contributions to Chelsea , among them Phlomis orientalis , Jerusalem sage , completely destroyed by the great frost of 1740 and P. flavescens , which managed to survive many years in a warm border . |
| 3 | In the UK the FT-SE 100 index fell 500 points on ‘ Black Monday ’ and Tuesday 20 October ( the fall being delayed by severe gales which had kept many City traders at home on Friday ) . |
| 4 | The workers ' faith has not been repaid this week — in a region which had escaped many of the severe job cuts which had hit other cities . |
| 5 | Prior to the rioting the Dinkins administration had been widely congratulated on successfully avoiding the disturbances which had affected many US cities in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots of April-May 1992 . |
| 6 | It was a verdict which had fired many a nationalistically minded but hitherto passive young Irishman to join the IRA , and it had prodded Denis into convincing himself that the time had come for him to stop wavering and take an active role in his country 's struggle . |
| 7 | It was the same sort of low church dissenting background which had produced many first generation medics like Kay and Wakley . |
| 8 | They therefore published terrible stories about the hardships of emigration and the problems which had befallen many emigrants . |
| 9 | But here , under the thick turf roof and the stone walls which had weathered many a north Atlantic gale , we were secure from the driving rain , and the heaviest gusts of wind did little more than make the oil-lamp flicker in its hanger . |