Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 2 | I was also interested in the possible help for tension , worry and lowering my blood pressure which had lately begun to rise and which concerned me greatly . |
| 3 | Angry too that she had not been trusted with knowledge which concerned her so much . |
| 4 | Henry VI gave them a court leet in 1451 , which concerned itself largely with the minor social offences common to any medieval town ; poor-quality weaving and leaving dead animals lying about the streets seem to have occurred fairly commonly . |
| 5 | We are not here concerned with the elusive though connected fact that causal circumstances in a different sense explain their effects , that sense which concerned us earlier in connection with causal priority . |
| 6 | One friend said that , in later life , Eliot could never bear to mention Vivien 's named and another has written of his feelings of " guilt and horror , which haunted him daily " and how once he observed , " I can never forget anything " . |
| 7 | He 'd made his fortune selling baths , bidets and toilets , which lent him little by way of mystique . |
| 8 | Left hemisphere control of sequential motor activity which lent itself readily to a symbolic gestural system may have been the evolutionary precursor to present day lateralisation of language . |
| 9 | But , whatever their knowledge , of far greater importance in official thinking was the strategic value of a power source which lent itself naturally to centralized control , which was operated by a well paid , reliable work-force and which would continue to keep the miners at bay . |
| 10 | When Charles visited Walahfrid 's old monastery at Reichenau , the poet produced an appropriate encomium : Due glory we accord To the power of the Trinity Which conveyed you here safe and sound Through the realms of the Franks ! … |
| 11 | There was an Audi which passed me soon after I 'd left the pub . |
| 12 | It combined within itself in eloquent reflection of the age which produced it both a daring and innovative modernity and a heroic and comforting traditionalism . |
| 13 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 14 | Slipping through the nearest black hole , maybe we can retrace the giant steps for mankind which led us here . |
| 15 | We walked alongside the stream and then negotiated the board-walk which led us safely across a treacherous bog to the shores of the tarn . |
| 16 | Opposition also began to mount among concerned citizens of the area , an opposition which manifested itself both individually and through the Ringaskiddy Residents ' Association , formed two years previously , which had not involved itself in any controversy over previous planning applications for industrial projects in the area . |
| 17 | Many observers noticed the force and weight of his presence ; it might be called dedication , or ambition , or it might have been something below the level of consciousness which propelled him forward . |
| 18 | Like most happy-go-lucky people , she had a good many minor misfortunes , which amused her as much as everyone else . |
| 19 | Size , colour and perfection of form help to influence the value attached to pearls , but it was their ‘ orient ’ which made them outstandingly attractive to men of many civilizations . |
| 20 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 21 | They had high opinions of their value on stage , which made them rather undisciplined . |
| 22 | This device froze mini-slabs of ice cream at -40 degrees Farenheit , which made them hard enough to be sealed with warm chocolate . |
| 23 | Different types of management experience were integrated into a set of principles which were all interrelated and presented at a level of generality which made them as widely applicable as possible . |
| 24 | Some children had last-minute treats of ice cream and sweets which made them very sick . |
| 25 | The houses , scattered in the countryside , looked enormous , like fortresses , with large barns and farmyards attached to them , and all the buildings were an ochre colour which made them very beautiful in the evening sunshine . |
| 26 | The excellence attributed to precious substances which made them so useful both as symbols of successful emulation and as expressions of love and regard extended to other matters of keen interest to individuals . |
| 27 | Yet it was this very stability which made them so potentially harmful , for their effects upon a whole ecosystem , as opposed to an individual species , were not considered before they were adopted and so , as farmers enthusiastically seized the opportunities which these new insecticides offered , little thought was given to any possible chain reaction which might follow . |
| 28 | For Scharlieb , it was women 's unique position as reproducers which made them so central to the physical and moral training of future generations . |
| 29 | The duties attached to some of these appointments were not too arduous , which made them all the more attractive to a landed gentleman with other interests but a great desire for an increased income . |
| 30 | Always small things , nothing she could have a qualm about accepting , which made them all the more delightful . |