Example sentences of "which had [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I read my log of a 1973 visit , which had utterly gone from memory , and dug out some poor slides taken then . |
| 2 | When she felt she could not naturally stand by the window any longer she went and inspected the gritty old review copies of books which had somehow collected over the years on the office shelves — Take Your Car to North Africa ! |
| 3 | He was a darling , though , ’ she added , absently taking a sip of the brandy which had somehow appeared on the table beside her . |
| 4 | The year saw the enhanced Luton Depot begin to operate properly with its normal workload , but also supporting the Special Plant and Electrical Installation Departments which had also relocated from their previous Southall base . |
| 5 | Fortunately , that was in harmony with the thoughts of the ITF Rules Committee which had also met at Key Biscayne a few days earlier and had thrown out the idea of one serve instead of two … or changing the dimensions of the court , such as a smaller service box or a serving line a yard behind the baseline , but agreed to make further research into rackets , balls and court surfaces . |
| 6 | We talked about the Dublin Review , where my Basic English article had been published , and referred to a characteristically splenetic article by Montgomery Belgion which had also appeared in that journal . |
| 7 | No details of any other claims by 261 Squadron pilots are available , but their opponents are believed to have been aircraft on the 23° Gruppo C.T. , which had just returned from Libya . |
| 8 | That was when Britain 's junior service , The Royal Airforce , which had just come of age — it was formed in 1918 — had what was arguably its finest hour . |
| 9 | Her knees seemed to have turned to water , her mind still reeling under the impact of the devastating revelation which had just come to her . |
| 10 | Penelope went hopefully into the vicarage where she found Sophia smiling over a letter which had just come by the evening post . |
| 11 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 12 | During the second world war , people huddled in air raid shelters defiantly singing Oh What A Beautiful Morning from Oklahoma ! , which had just opened in the US . |
| 13 | The Soviet government , which had repeatedly warned of the destabilizing effects of rapid unification , accepted the formula when , on behalf of Polish government , the phrase concerning " issues of security of the neighbouring states " was added . |
| 14 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) , which had repeatedly warned of the dangers of the situation ever since the pumping had been stopped , is to ask the government for emergency funds to run a treatment programme for the water remaining in the mine . |
| 15 | In a broadcast he made after the war , he described the journal as one " which had clearly failed of its purpose several years before events brought it to an end " . |
| 16 | The decline in mortality rates , which had traditionally cut off marriage after about twenty years , was not yet offset by rising divorce rates . |
| 17 | Henry 's anti-papalism was based on the belief that the pope had wrongfully usurped the spiritual and temporal power which had traditionally belonged to the kings of England , and while he therefore rejected the pope 's claim to jurisdiction in England , he was prepared to regard him as the rightful Bishop of Rome . |
| 18 | At a meeting on Jan. 6 the two leaders agreed to cancel the annual " Team Spirit " joint military exercises , the holding of which had frequently resulted in the suspension of dialogue by North Korea . |
| 19 | [ The Faroese has earlier appealed to Greenpeace — which had strongly campaigned against the islanders ' traditional whale-hunt — for help in countering pollution which they claimed were making the whales inedible — see ED 49/50 . ] |
| 20 | But his great ambition was to discover the remains of the famous Temple of Artemis ( or Diana ) at Ephesus , south of Smyrna , which had completely disappeared from sight in the middle ages . |
| 21 | Surprised for the second time , Merrill nodded , swallowing the lump which had unexpectedly risen in her throat . |
| 22 | Inflation , which had officially fallen to 9.4 per cent in September 1989 and to around 7 per cent in October , rose sharply in November , while the austral lost one-tenth of its value on the black market , dropping to $1.00=1,000 australs in the course of a few hours on Nov. 20 against a background of uncertainty over economic policies , tension within the government and divisions in the labour movement . |
| 23 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
| 24 | Private rooms became almost a thing of the past , for closets went out of fashion ; bedrooms , which had formerly existed on all floors , went upstairs , but , although their dressing-rooms were often furnished as boudoirs , these were out-of-bounds from after breakfast , except in times of illness . |
| 25 | Although the PDM held fewer seats than Namaliu 's Pangu Pati , Wingti successfully constructed a coalition which consisted of the PDM , the People 's Progress Party ( PPP ) , and the League for National Advancement ( LNA ) — which had formerly participated in the Pangu-led government of Namaliu — together with a majority of the many independent MPs . |
| 26 | This route which had formerly run from London Bridge to Tooting Junction , had been divided when route 30 was converted to trolleybuses and had become tram route 12 London Bridge — Battersea — Wandsworth and trolleybus route 612 Battersea — Wandsworth — Tooting — Mitcham . |
| 27 | A search of the Pennington Papers brought to light a declaration of sale of equipment & buildings at the mines above Tilberthwaite ( on Muncaster territory ) which had formerly belonged to Patrickson & Co . |
| 28 | Zou 's report called for greater control of investment in fixed assets , which had reportedly risen by 21 per cent in the first half of the year compared with the same period of 1990 , so as to concentrate on priority projects including water conservation , agriculture , energy , transport , key raw materials , health and education . |
| 29 | Although the young man and Mrs H. denied rectal intercourse , it is probable that this was the site that had served as a source of the infection , which had presumably originated with her husband over a year previously . |
| 30 | This followed a serious accident at the reactor on Oct. 19 which had already led to its temporary closure [ see p. 36984 ] . |