Example sentences of "which [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1952 they started leaving sweet potatoes on the beach at the forest edge , as food for the macaques , which duly came out of the forest and ate them . |
| 2 | Producing such material has until recently been the preserve of highly skilled individuals using methods which effectively date back to Caxton and Gutenberg . |
| 3 | Low branching and twisting then produces bundles of diverging and spreading fibrils which eventually fill out into the characteristic spherical structure . |
| 4 | On atomic and subatomic levels seemingly solid matter is seen to be small particles within particles which eventually turn out to be just pure energy . |
| 5 | The most valuable resolve anyone who has decided to care for an elderly relative can make is to give her all the love and loyalty you can but without becoming a martyr in the process , for martyrdom in such circumstances often breeds repressed resentment , which eventually boils over into words and actions that are later bitterly regretted . |
| 6 | Wordsworth , on the other hand , placed more value on Nature as a religious and moral agent ; he began those speculations about the meaning and direction of his own life which eventually built up into The Prelude . |
| 7 | Er turn left onto Road , to the railway line , and it cuts back along the railway line er which eventually comes out on the ring road . |
| 8 | De Chaboulon recalled : ‘ The looting delayed the enemy 's pursuit which eventually caught up with us at Quatre Bras and they fell upon our carriages . |
| 9 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 10 | Irenius begins his account with an expression of anxiety which reveals a number of linked issues which constantly crop up in Spenser 's writing : the establishment and maintenance of true religion and civilisation within a pattern of human development predetermined by the divine . |
| 11 | ' I contend that these crowds spontaneously generate from microscopic spores which constantly drift about in our atmosphere , awaiting the perfect conditions in which to briefly flourish . |
| 12 | But he above is a representative of the general tone of the interview which constantly referred back to the suspiciously ‘ instant ’ political aspects of the band . |
| 13 | But a survey on , let us say , political questions , which suddenly came up with questions about husband-wife relations , would almost certainly result in the questions being queried at the very least . |
| 14 | The line of the Great Central Railway south of Leicester through Catesby Tunnel and on to Brackley , is a superb example where an appreciation of the engineering involved in the construction of the last great main line in England can be obtained In a different landscape are the deep cuttings and high embankments south-east of Overstrand , Norfolk which suddenly open out into a vast grass amphitheatre-like area the site of Mundesley Station only opened in 1898 . |
| 15 | Dunlop , giving his new Honda : which only came out of the crate on Thursday : its first run , finished second to Paul Harbinson in the first race before beating Stephen Farmer and Gary Dynes in the second race . |
| 16 | The longest-running powder ski of this type was the Fischer Future Extreme , which only went out of production a couple of years ago . |
| 17 | was also fully occupied , planning a surprise honeymoon to California , which only found out about when they reached the airport . |
| 18 | Life is painful throughout , with only the briefest moments of relief — the hyacinth garden , the fishmen at Magnus Martyr , boating — all of which only lead back into the cycle of further ( often sexual ) pain . |
| 19 | The overall result is a collection of beautiful and ironically harmonious expressions of pain which literally cry out for some of the vibrancy and hopeful energy of Mama Mosambiki . |
| 20 | The overall result is a collection of beautiful and ironically harmonious expressions of pain which literally cry out for some of the vibrancy and hopeful energy of Mama Mosambiki . |
| 21 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 22 | The great Da Ponte operas have been constantly in the international repertory since the early years of the century ( with the exception of Così fan tutte , which finally came back into its own in the 1950s ) ; while the lesser-known ones such as Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito are now taking their place alongside their more familiar stable-mates . |
| 23 | At its meeting in February 1972 the CNAA endorsed an initiative by the Chairmen of the two bodies to suggest entering into discussions about the possibility of an amalgamation — which finally came about in 1974 . |
| 24 | She had to keep up rental payments which finally mounted up to £570 a quarter — regardless . |
| 25 | As teachers , we should notice that a clear understanding of the formal connections between sentences may help to explain one of the ways in which foreign language students sometimes write supposedly connected sentences , each of which is well-formed in itself , but which somehow add up to very strange discourse . |
| 26 | The towns which thus sprung up at some railway centres are examples of the way in which individuality was lost , and lately the housing estate has spread a new uniformity even more widely over the country . |
| 27 | It was relatively easy to show that the animal could habituate and show sensitization , and much work was put into the study of a particular set of reflexes , by which , if it is touched , the Aplysia withdraws its breathing organs , the gill and siphon , which normally stick out from its body surface , into its body cavity . |
| 28 | The most prestigious site in Belfast is thought to be prismatics site on Ann Street , which normally works out at £350 for two weeks . |
| 29 | Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year . |
| 30 | Although it was summer a fire burned in the great stone hearth — embers which were all that were left of logs which had been burned during the night to repel the damp which always crept out of the stone walls . |