Example sentences of "which [verb] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The week which followed was amongst the most lonely of Ruth 's life .
2 When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " .
3 The days which followed were among the most difficult in de Gaulle 's entire presidency .
4 Those gardens which survived were in the main bulldozed and concreted over to provide station car-parking in the 1950 , another victory for functionalism over aesthetics .
5 Having had a gruesome storm-tossed journey , his first act on landing was to fulfil his vow to travel barefoot to the nearest shrine in thanksgiving for his delivery ; the rheumatism which resulted was with him for the rest of his life — as was the sourness with which he regarded Scotland .
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