Example sentences of "which [adv] [verb] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His furniture was seized by the bailiffs and he was reduced to a demeaning game of hide and seek with process servers which eventually ended when they caught up with him in Belfast . |
| 2 | First , he points out that the process of ostensive definition , whereby the solipsist attempts to give a meaning to the term ‘ pain ’ by pointing ( mentally ) to a sensation , is one which only works when we already have a background of conceptual knowledge , and can not be used to construct such knowledge from a blank sheet . |
| 3 | I remembered how once , when a tunnel had been successfully completed contrary to expectation , he had jockeyed himself into a position on the team which finally escaped although he had never done any of the work . |
| 4 | He could not control his horse which finally bolted so he and the royal purveyor stayed drinking in Inverkeithing . |
| 5 | It is not possible to simply stagnate for a while ; and it is our choices and decisions which largely determine whether we are growing . |
| 6 | It is now clear that there are very few towns which just grew because they were at suitable locations . |
| 7 | Most of all the fate of Poland illustrated the necessity of strong monarchy and the fatal disunity which usually followed when it was lacking . |
| 8 | Through his twenties and early thirties he had a succession of short-lived relationships with girlfriends which usually ended when they tired of his unreliable and generally difficult behaviour . |
| 9 | Grandson Richard had quite long hair , which also helped when it was time to climb up on to the shoulder . |
| 10 | Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there . |
| 11 | P " There 's always the streets , " she said with a cheeky grin — which immediately faded when she saw Patrick 's expression . |
| 12 | The predominant sensation is one of tension , which steadily mounts until it becomes unbearable . |
| 13 | Employing the winter tactic of faith in grass , he clutched wildly at a tuft , which amazingly held until he was established on the rugosity above . |
| 14 | ‘ Would this request from London have anything to do with the package and report I sent them , which never arrived because it was intercepted right here in this office ? ’ |
| 15 | At the end of the alley I paused , waiting , but all I saw was the end of a nose which quietly withdrew as I stood there . |
| 16 | There is an uncertainty in the sense that we today observe the universe to be in a state of expansion , that is the most distant galaxies and clusters and galaxies are all receding from one another at a high speed , which actually increases as you look farther and farther away from us . |
| 17 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |