Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [verb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 2 | A vast impenetrable openness which froze him to the spot where he was as if he was caught in ice . |
| 3 | By its very nature the trial is a passive form of review which confines itself to an examination of the finished product of the police investigation . |
| 4 | She and her husband were met at the station by a small open carriage which took them to the palace . |
| 5 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 6 | The restaurant is on a lease and I understand that when the lease ran out there was a law which entitled me to a new one . |
| 7 | Two seasons ago , they beat Sparta Prague 2-0 in Czechoslovakia , then drew 0-0 in Napoli on a European Cup run which took them to the semi-finals . |
| 8 | The mockery could n't disguise the aggressive determination which chilled her to the bone . |
| 9 | At first our after-dinner conversation was on general matters but when Lady Francesca withdrew , throwing Benjamin a smile which cut me to the heart , Clinton soon brought matters to order . |
| 10 | He catches me watching him and smiles a naughty smile which thrills me to the core . |
| 11 | Muffled in furs , Franklin D. Hauser left the complex in a snow buggy which drove him to a helipad a kilometre away . |
| 12 | Donny O'Brien , the ancient typesetter inherited from the original Advent , swore each day that it was only by the grace of God that the paper ever got launched in the taxi which delivered it to the newspaper boys . |
| 13 | The Holy Alliance which ties them to the USSR and to one another is the principle of Party infallibility , not the fact , and the certainty that the principle will be upheld — if necessary , by Soviet tanks . |
| 14 | The alley opened out into a large square courtyard from which , on all sides , reared five-storey buildings , all in a state of dilapidation , and outside of each was a mound of filth and rubbish , some giving off a stench which left nothing to the imagination as from what it was derived . |
| 15 | Ms Darlow took along her wedding gown for one and her grandmother 's hat and muff for another an outfit which lent itself to a sepia finish , said Mrs Simmons . |
| 16 | The comparative study of political systems and especially public policy-making has given rise to the belief that the distinction between politics and administration is artificial and that the role of administrators can not be settled by a definition which relegates them to a purely instrumental position . |
| 17 | So it seemed to me , sir , that we need a very very special justification for this all embracing E two policy which brings me to the other thing to say about it as a general principle . |
| 18 | When servicemen were demobilised in 1918 they were given a free unemployment insurance policy which entitled them to an ‘ out-of-work-donation ’ for a maximum of twenty-six weeks during the first twelve months following their demobilisation . |
| 19 | Skirting the marshy end , they slowly climbed the gentle slope on the other side to join the carriage drive which led them to the stable . |
| 20 | What Housman has given us is a poem quite poignantly suggestive of that sense of private and personal loss that runs through so many of his lyrics ; a poem which refers us to the places and voices of The Other Shropshire , where the Graces go , and lads lie untimely in the earth . |
| 21 | He developed a distinctive style which owed something to the German illustrator Wilhelm Busch . |
| 22 | As I took my place in the darkened centre stage for the opening of the first act , and the lights slowly came up , I saw a sight which I 've never seen before , a sight which chilled me to the marrow and froze me to the spot . |
| 23 | For now she stuck to the road which took her to the right , towards the sea . |
| 24 | Leeds failed to recapture the form which swept them to the title in 1991–92 and , according to national newspaper reports , Wilkinson has had to endure a torrent of abuse . |
| 25 | Marcella Tate came to the Incident Room and made her statement which added nothing to the sum of their knowledge . |
| 26 | Nevertheless there was a central thread running through the JCPT report which linked it to the feasibility study of merger which the CHC had commissioned . |
| 27 | They are then sent to the Embassy maintained in the state of destination which conveys them to the External Affairs Ministry of that state , which will pass them over to its Ministry of Justice to be sent down to the appropriate local agency for delivery to the addressee . |
| 28 | After three days hard riding , Corbett and his party reached Edinburgh in the middle of a sudden summer thunderstorm which drenched them to the skin . |
| 29 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 30 | Alternatively , a person may place himself in a dangerous position which exposes him to the risk of involvement in the accident in which he is harmed . |