Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There it was again : that feeling of being mesmerised as obediently she met the ice-blue gaze which devoured her . |
| 2 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 3 | Another social problem which concerned him was the lack of housing both for the poor and for the tourists . |
| 4 | But it was the possibility of attack from ships which concerned him most ; and he proposed that he and Moray make a survey , by boat , to consider what , if anything , might be done protectively . |
| 5 | It was the eponymity which concerned him . |
| 6 | As he explains in the ‘ Epistle to the Reader ’ , he began it after a discussion in which it occurred to him and his friends that they might get further with the problems which concerned them if they were first to ‘ examine our own abilities , and see , what objects our understandings were , or were not fitted to deal with ’ . |
| 7 | Lineage shaikhs designated one of their number to be a section shaikh , to represent them in affairs which concerned them all . |
| 8 | Part of the impetus had been the growing frustration felt by women in the voluntary work committees that they and the issues which concerned them tended to be elbowed aside by men . |
| 9 | I was also interested in the possible help for tension , worry and lowering my blood pressure which had lately begun to rise and which concerned me greatly . |
| 10 | Angry too that she had not been trusted with knowledge which concerned her so much . |
| 11 | We are not here concerned with the elusive though connected fact that causal circumstances in a different sense explain their effects , that sense which concerned us earlier in connection with causal priority . |
| 12 | I knew he was so incensed he could n't control himself ; I could n't blame him for the fury which inhabited him . |
| 13 | One friend said that , in later life , Eliot could never bear to mention Vivien 's named and another has written of his feelings of " guilt and horror , which haunted him daily " and how once he observed , " I can never forget anything " . |
| 14 | At the same time , it was those with the highest level of education who were best able to draw from particular grievances — against their own foreman or management — a more general analysis of the system which oppressed them . |
| 15 | He 'd made his fortune selling baths , bidets and toilets , which lent him little by way of mystique . |
| 16 | When Charles visited Walahfrid 's old monastery at Reichenau , the poet produced an appropriate encomium : Due glory we accord To the power of the Trinity Which conveyed you here safe and sound Through the realms of the Franks ! … |
| 17 | For steam was the breath which animated them , and that breath has been stifled . |
| 18 | Nephthys was dark , and her large features had an open attractiveness due to the personality which animated them . |
| 19 | Last season , Dungannon won the Ulster League which qualified them for a ‘ round-robin ’ series with the other provincial winners in a bid to gain entry to the AIL . |
| 20 | Before that all the students had taken a course which qualified them to teach children for their first five years in school . |
| 21 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 22 | Fortunately my mother was able to return to teaching and to complete the final two or three years which qualified her for a pension of her own . |
| 23 | In 1964 the TUC sold its 40 per cent of the Herald to the Mirror Group , which relaunched it as the Sun . |
| 24 | Kleinwort Benson , which disclosed it had purchased 200,000 of its own shares at 353p each , rose 11p to 366p and Hambros edged ahead 3p to 232p . |
| 25 | ‘ In the 19th century , a series of cases forced upon the Commons and courts a comprehensive review of the issues which divided them , from which it became clear that some of the earlier claims to jurisdiction made in the name of privilege by the House of Commons were untenable in a court of law : that the law of Parliament was part of the general law , that its principles were not beyond the judicial knowledge of the judges , and that it was the duty of the common law to define its limits could no longer be disputed . |
| 26 | The curtain which divided them was wearing thin . |
| 27 | Engineers were dominated by craft unionism which divided them by organization and levels of skill even within the newly created Amalgamated Engineering Union . |
| 28 | Carrying a heavy basket and bundle , Tess was walking towards the hills which divided her from the Vale , her place of birth . |
| 29 | Which read it , read it , see what his name was . |
| 30 | Its design and construction were handed to the Bristol Aircraft Company , which designated it model 167 . |