Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [vb pp] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for some people the austerity period which followed brought it even more years of deprivation and hardship than those of the war . |
| 2 | It was possible to believe that the sale and all the unpleasantness which had followed it had never taken place . |
| 3 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 4 | But he also followed the normal practice of Greek historians in treating an army at war as something independent of the political organization which had created it . |
| 5 | It remained in place only a few minutes more , When the Commanding Officer ordered not only a change of the command team which had built it , but a change of design as well . |
| 6 | It came into force for those states which had ratified it in 1953 . |
| 7 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 8 | Its importance even in the Mediterranean , the sea which had given it birth , was rapidly declining by the later seventeenth century . |
| 9 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 10 | It was clear from this that people 's anger was not just directed at the dangers of the technology , but at the centralized military-industrial complex which had imposed it . |
| 11 | The curious thing about Dr Dunstaple 's death was that although the harrowing circumstances which had attended it were well known throughout the camp , it was not generally considered that , by dying , the Doctor had lost his argument with McNab . |
| 12 | The organization 's behaviour would appear to be explained by an expectation that the increased demand for output which had led it to bring In temporary workers would , In fact , be sustained . |
| 13 | Since the light hurt his blinded eye , and indeed the cut which had damaged it was not yet healed , he went with it bandaged and darkened with a black shade . |
| 14 | The great thunder which had propelled it towards their hiding-place below ground had somehow ebbed . |
| 15 | And then there came a time when he felt a pride in the deed , in the courage , the audacity , the resolution which had made it possible . |
| 16 | For nearly two centuries a political framework had existed which had made it increasingly easy to tap Europe 's resources and savings . |
| 17 | Benjamin often expressed regret at the passing of ‘ traditional ’ art and the social ties and functions which had made it possible . |
| 18 | In Alexandria armies of monks sacked the Serapeum , the great temple to Osiris , and destroyed the library which had made it one of the world 's chief centres of learning . |
| 19 | This Britain had done and she should not be dismayed at their majority , but be proud of it , and of the imperialism which had made it possible " . |
| 20 | Which had made it difficult for her to stifle her irreverent giggles , particularly with Matey 's severe stare on her . |
| 21 | They stopped providing the subsidized food which had made it possible to survive . |
| 22 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 23 | Accor , a hotel group , took the Motel 6 chain off the hands of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ( which had bought it a year earlier in an LBO ) for FFr7 billion at around the same time . |
| 24 | But for the past year she 's faced the very real possibility of losing the Inn that 's been her life because Whitbreads decided to sell it off along with other pubs to meet the demands of the Monopolies Commission , which had demanded it must get rid of half its tied houses . |
| 25 | If Berowne himself had wielded the razor , surely the palm which had clutched it would have been less bloodied . |
| 26 | It belonged to another College , which had let it to one of its fellows . |
| 27 | Moreover , it had become clear from the opinion polls that the unpopularity of the new tax was being laid at the door of the government which had introduced it , rather than the local authorities who were responsible for levying and collecting it . |
| 28 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 29 | The obelisk was nearly completed , and a place had been prepared for it near the south pylon of the Temple of Ptah ; the barge which had brought it had long since returned to the quarries upriver . |
| 30 | By 12 February the paper had done some digging , which had taken it , bashfully , to Southampton Row and Indica , and had summoned up many of the spectres upsetting the generation still in thrall to Dad 's war stories . |