Example sentences of "which had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl in the mirror was a total contrast to the haunted image which had stared back at her a few hours earlier . |
| 2 | WHEN Eastern Air Lines , which had flapped along in chapter 11 bankruptcy for nearly two years , finally shut down on January 18th , one of the concerned onlookers was Pan Am 's boss , Tom Plaskett . |
| 3 | From 1877 trunk lines were begun on both North and South Islands to cement the short , separate , coast-to-interior railways which had developed up to that date . |
| 4 | Although some of them were just small farms which had developed out of native settlements , others were country houses at the centres of large estates . |
| 5 | The session had been intended to set a date for reconvening the 14th party congress , which had broken up in disarray on Jan. 23 [ see pp. 37172 ] . |
| 6 | The Emir Bashir the Third , who ruled Mount Lebanon for the Sublime Porte in Istanbul , had been unable to contain the bitter disputes which had broken out between the two communities . |
| 7 | Addressing the court before sentencing , and speaking in that confiding style whose quality of extreme directness made ordinary statements seem extraordinary , Gandhi took upon himself complete responsibility for ‘ the diabolical crimes of Chauri Chaura ’ and other disturbances which had broken out in recent weeks . |
| 8 | In an immediate response to the latest left-wing guerrilla offensive , the government on Sept. 5 ruled out the renewal of peace talks which had broken down in March [ see p. 38809 ] and were suspended indefinitely in May . |
| 9 | There are times when you can feel successful when you 've done virtually nothing — I remember when I became a radio actor , and I was pushing my motor bike , which had run out of petrol , up the main street in Cardiff , and I felt that I was a great star , and was very pleased with myself . |
| 10 | The catalogue of hurts which had built up over the years was considerable . |
| 11 | Furthermore , it gave him an excellent excuse not to apply his mind to the dismal subjects rearmament , the war in Spain , relations with Hitler , the distressed areas the weight of which had built up during his absence . |
| 12 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 13 | The first part of an explanation would be the extent of belief in Hitler which had built up in the years before 1940 . |
| 14 | This was because of the vast trade which had built up in trans-border data flow — the international exchange across frontiers of electronically processed information . |
| 15 | In this situation the US government could not maintain the inflated hopes about détente which had built up in 1971–3 . |
| 16 | The crisis which had blown up over Tito 's claim to Carinthia and Venezia Giulia was nearing its height . |
| 17 | That horn does n't look too good though , he thought , scratching his head and glaring at the disinterested horse , which had stepped back on it while it was lying with the rest of the dismantled bits on the floor of the shed . |
| 18 | It was a grey morning , she thought with a shiver , the sky heavily overcast with cloud which had appeared out of nowhere during one night . |
| 19 | All the love and devotion which had poured out of those once-bright eyes reassured Marjorie that , somehow , Lizzie actually understood . |
| 20 | Gentle had successfully recreated one Gauguin previously , a small picture which had gone on to the open market and been consumed without any questions being asked . |
| 21 | It makes clear , firstly , that Eighth Army and AF HQ were brought fully into the picture as to the methods being used by 5 Corps to effect the repatriation of the anti-Tito Yugoslavs and , after all the discussions which had gone on in previous days , gave those methods their complete support . |
| 22 | The price rises were also needed urgently to close the gap with wholesale prices for raw materials , which had been increased on Jan. 1 , and with the state purchase prices for agricultural produce , which had gone up in 1990 . |
| 23 | In fact it was a kettle which had gone out of production eight years ago . |
| 24 | Finally , guberniia executive committees were charged with the resurrection of village reading-rooms , most of which had gone under in the changed economic conditions of NEP . |
| 25 | Defence counsel said the assault was ‘ a crime of passion ’ , which had arisen out of McAteer 's ongoing marital difficulties and was ‘ not assisted in any way by the philandering of the injured party ’ . |
| 26 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 27 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |
| 28 | We passed giant slabs of ice which had buckled up into a cracked swelling over a rock and saw ice discs spinning on the surface of the water like root-less lily pads . |
| 29 | One afternoon she gave a pound short on the change which had showed up in emerald numerals before her face . |
| 30 | The new land comprised 240 million cubic metres of lava which had spewed out at 1,100 °C ( 2,012°F ) and was cooled by dowsing with six million tons of sea water in an effort to halt its relentless drive . |