Example sentences of "which [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw the same high empty space between the ground and the broken glass roof , she recognized the air which smelled of soot and coal-smoke and was thick as grey soup , and the mottled pigeon-droppings and the grey suits of men , the black hats . |
| 2 | Esther , who had always been deeply bored with Delia and had no wish whatsoever to keep in touch with her , sat quietly in the smooth , upholstered , comfortable , large toffee-brown Volvo , which smelled of dog . |
| 3 | We followed them through the marsh , which smelled of dying plants . |
| 4 | I lived in a nursery which smelled of boredom and liniment . |
| 5 | I drank some of the coffee , which tasted of acorns , and looked at my meal . |
| 6 | Anything which smacked of breeding seemed to infuriate him . |
| 7 | In particular , they would oppose anything which smacked of the corporatist state . |
| 8 | The paper reported that the school claimed to have saved £40,000 by buying in bulk but that ‘ The National Union of Teachers has criticised the move as a misuse of the school 's low-income clothing allowance which smacked of marketing ’ . |
| 9 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 10 | He had collected Heather from the Portesham turn-off on the Bridport road , not from Sabre Rise itself , which smacked of subterfuge from the very start . |
| 11 | In January 1859 , however , the cause of press reform took a turn for the worse when the tsar appointed a Committee on Press Affairs which smacked of the committee of 1848 . |
| 12 | He commanded the government troops in Eritrea , and chaired the court martial in 1989 which disposed of 12 of his fellow-generals for plotting an anti-Mengistu coup . |
| 13 | Phil Tufnell celebrates the return catch which disposed of New Zealand 's Dipak Patel , who had taken the long handle to the left-arm spinner in the previous Test |
| 14 | The dissenters who met in these new places of worship belonged to a Puritan tradition which disapproved of the decoration of churches , and the interiors of meeting-houses were thus kept bare and plain . |
| 15 | This follows representations by the British Hotels , Restaurants and Caterers Association ( BHRCA ) which learnt of the proposed change in May . |
| 16 | ’ At Shotesham there are delicate plaster ceilings and a frieze of wheat-ears and hops in the entrance hall , which told of Robert Fellowes ' surrounding acres . |
| 17 | Even more horrifying was a recent report aired on CBS which told of Panamanians searching for missing relatives and finding several mass graves containing at least 4,000 people . |
| 18 | The Germans were the bombs which smashed the towns and villages of England or they were the words in the newspapers which told of defeat . |
| 19 | It was so hot we lay on the floor and watched the wheeling and turning of the planes and the occasional flare-up which told of a kill . |
| 20 | In deference to the apparent madness of King George III he agreed to the Lord Chamberlain 's proposal , as play censor , to omit Shakespeare 's King Lear from the repertory which told of a monarch similarly afflicted ; but clashed with him over The School for Scandal , the objections to which , however , he managed to resolve , bringing him a period of near prosperity . |
| 21 | She had earlier written a report called ‘ Facing the Unbelievable ’ , which told of the ritual abuse of children . |
| 22 | It was a shoddy disreputable town which stank of open sewers and rotting vegetables . |
| 23 | Afterwards , when I would have preferred to stay and stare at Agnes , he took me down to King 's Wharf near the Vintry and into a small ale house which stank of carp and salt . |
| 24 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 25 | Prior to the 1753 Marriage Act , the state made few serious attempts to suppress either contract marriage , which consisted of a verbal promise , or clandestine marriage , which involved a religious ritual and witnesses but which did not conform to the dictates of canon law . |
| 26 | 3rd Armoured Field Ambulance were tasked to provide medical support to the British military contingent , Which consisted of 1,500 servicemen and servicewomen from the Army and the Royal Air Force . |
| 27 | To obtain additional internal volume and a satisfactory relationship between new floor levels and existing or modified window openings , the original ground floor , which consisted of two panels of suspended timber construction under the areas formerly accommodating pews , separated and flanked by strips of tiled floor on a solid base where the gangways ran , was removed to give a further 400mm ( 16in ) of height . |
| 28 | Clasper 's small hard core of left-wing supporters , which included a phalanx of students from Liverpool University , had formed a noisy group immediately in front of the improvised platform , which consisted of a large wooden CKD crate with the Vehicle Divisions ' name stencilled in large black letters on each surface . |
| 29 | With a groan , he took out his homework , which consisted of French and Irish . |
| 30 | The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of ‘ how we have always done things ’ , than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville . |