Example sentences of "which [pron] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Do not keep saying to yourself ‘ But how can it be like that ? ’ because you will get … into a blind alley from which no-one has yet escaped . ’
2 Then I realized I was kneeling on a tarpaulin which someone had carefully placed over what could have been a small metal gate — or — the detached ‘ fun bumper ’ cow-catcher device from a small four-wheel-drive vehicle , say , a Shogun .
3 A remark which someone had once made to me about a man who had gone mad in the camp came clearly out of the darkness :
4 It was a shabby army-surplus shoulder-bag which someone had painstakingly embroidered with purple stars .
5 All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway .
6 Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night .
7 I dig a hole with the hand trowel and pop them under the courgette together with the hands , feet and eyes ( which I 'd already collected ) .
8 He even had on a collar and tie , which I 'd never seen before and which he would tug at every now and then as if it were too tight .
9 Shut behind glass doors on one wall were copper pots and jelly moulds which I 'd never seen used .
10 And so I had to drag the coal scuttle up there , I was faced with that , and chop the sticks , which I 'd never done before .
11 Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went .
12 . Erm but then we slept under every hedge , I think , along the south coast , till we lost our machine guns , collected anti-tank guns , and eventually were transferred to the Royal Artillery , but still with this county pride of Devon , which I 'd never met before .
13 Erm , I had n't actually felt that violent , I 'd been having extremes of emotion all week erm , very high , very low , very very fearful , panic attacks which I 'd never had before in my life .
14 I 'm afraid of dogs , but a rage the like of which I 'd never known before — and rarely since — took hold of me and I wanted to kill it , rip it limb from limb and tear at its throat with my teeth .
15 She later embellished it with a few words about my inability to dance again — which I 'd never indulged in — and proposed that the girls would be driven even further away .
16 But in a brand new fitted dress into which I 'd climbed only two hours earlier , and in which I 'd never attempted the sitting position let alone … well to cut a long and visually absurd story short , I was about as likely to have a pee in that dress as I was to share a bagel with Adnan Kashoggi .
17 ‘ We had to do manoeuvrability tests in three different cars , including a Cavalier automatic and a Corsa which I 'd never driven before .
18 Interested readers will be aware that a couple of years ago , two new recordings of the 1915 version of El Amor brujo were released , one from Virgin with Aquarius ( which I 've not heard ) , the other from Nuova Era with the Carmé Ensemble .
19 Actually , I guess I would n't want to tell it to anybody , not so much because I 'm ashamed ( I tell myself ) as because it 's private ; one last thing I can hide that 's between me and Andy only , so letting me feel that there is one thing at least in which I 've not betrayed him utterly .
20 A difference of one thousand one hundred in the base dwellings stock which I 've not discussed and do n't propose to go into .
21 ‘ In fact , it was about the only game in which I 've not picked up a knock since the start of the season .
22 Yes , this now celebrated affair , which I 've not spoken about before , did actually happen .
23 They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug .
24 My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) .
25 These are just examples of er of of of question of answers to questions Burn asks the question which I 've just asked , why then does low turn out persist , cos he 's just made the point above that there are big issues in local government .
26 An interesting situation which I 've just explained to Ann , whereby at the weekend there 's a set of offices in the Strand Theatre which the company that we 're operating from there so stopped
27 The president , it says in the constitution which I 've just read , the president has the power to make treaties to make agreements with foreign countries .
28 We 'll also talk about the ability to integrate the information to application development through online transaction processing applications and the icon at the bottom representing software which I 've just mentioned .
29 Which I 've already explained where 's that other cup and cheese
30 You say , Mr , that the constraints to which I 've already referred may well act as a deterrent er to potential developers ?
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