Example sentences of "which had [verb] [adv] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kronstadt was savagely suppressed ; the mass movement which had swept all before it until October was finally subdued ; and the way was cleared for the brutal state coercion associated with the name of Stalin . |
| 2 | I had to sit down twice because of the roast beef and everything , which had gone straight to my legs . |
| 3 | These discussions took place in the context of widespread doubts about Britain 's ‘ national efficiency ’ ; doubts which had arisen largely from our military incompetence during the Boer War . |
| 4 | Meryl burned at the memory of that piercing look , which had shot right through her armour of professional resentment to the vulnerable core . |
| 5 | I was immensely proud of this , having no idea that ‘ the Friends ’ was now a rapidly growing organization which had moved far beyond my immediate circle . |
| 6 | By the nineteenth , they were very important and expensive institutions which had moved far from their original concerns with navigation and positional astronomy . |
| 7 | The displacement looked to be of considerable extent , much larger than the chunk of 2020 which had brought me to 1816 , or the chunk of some mysterious medieval land which had arrived earlier on my front doorstep . |
| 8 | And he handed over the letter ( which had creased beautifully in his pocket ) with just the right note of impatient politeness . |
| 9 | Just outside the grille gates — which had opened automatically at his approach and then closed behind him — Newman was lying on his back under his car . |