Example sentences of "which [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third summer I came across greenflies which I easily killed with malathion . |
| 2 | I remember being unable to connect those grainy breasts and pubic hair with anything in my own life — flesh , for instance — but the image gave me a mysterious frisson which I mistakenly took for sex . |
| 3 | Since then he has graduated to writing sequels to E.F.Benson 's Lucia novels , a book with the good title of Expecting Someone Taller ( which I must read sometime ) and another with the awful title of Who 's Afraid of Beowulf ? ( which I recently read for amusement , without success ) . |
| 4 | Regular hunts for larvae , which I then rear in captivity , give additional records of species and feeding . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , shared housing in private or college accommodation can be as educative and stimulating as the studies for which you primarily go to college . |
| 6 | ‘ So your zeide says , ’ agreed Bertha Cohen as she spread the hake , thoroughly washed and cleaned , on a wooden board and cut it into thick pieces which she liberally sprinkled with salt . |
| 7 | Indeed , Leonard can only recall a volume of the Russian writer Gogol on her shelf , by which she presumably kept in touch with her own more distant — if painful — affiliations , though influencing Leonard , perhaps , unconsciously , with Gogol 's sense of fantasy and comic genius — as well as his need to travel . ) |
| 8 | She was attracted by the privation of the life , which she always linked with virtue , and she liked its sexual freedom . |
| 9 | Her massy hair , which she usually plaited at night or at least tied back , was all over the pillow and herself and him , covering his shoulders as well as her own . |
| 10 | All our language is a groping after a reality which we already possess in part . |
| 11 | They give us and Perry Farrell ( who 's God in these parts ) ‘ HIPS LIPS TITS POWER ’ T-shirts which we duly wear on stage . |
| 12 | These include the nucleus , which houses the chromosomes ; the tiny bomb-shaped objects called mitochondria ( which we briefly met in Figure 1 ) , filled with intricately folded membranes ; and , in the ( eukaryotic ) cells of plants , chloroplasts . |
| 13 | We wish to suggest that these words may equally be substituted to describe strategic vision , suggesting a dynamic model as follows , each stage of which we then discuss in turn . |
| 14 | Among orthodox men of learning the biblical axiom that species are fixed entities established by God at the Creation gradually became qualified by the doctrine of plenitude , the Great Chain of Being , which declared that God , as artist creator , would necessarily have created all possible creatures in all possible worlds , and that the creatures which we now know on earth are but a fraction of those which exist in the universe . |
| 15 | The Stealth combo which we recently reviewed in Guitarist smacks of your handiwork … |
| 16 | The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love . |
| 17 | In this fashion , the Lugbara deity represents certain general phenomena and inescapable universal afflictions such as death ( which they also connect with witchcraft ) . |
| 18 | Mrs Knelle and June discussed turf , which they both used for fuel . |
| 19 | When delivered ready to start running on I August 1913 , the ten ‘ SoutherN ’ buses were integrated with the L.G.O.C. fleet and allocated to Streatham Garage , from which they normally worked on route 59 , ( Oxford Circus and South Croydon ) which competed directly with Croydon Corporation trams , emphasising Croydon 's weakness in not having through running powers to work to London . |
| 20 | Hearing people have significantly better recall for items which they vocally repeat at presentation , while deaf people find it more difficult to recall items when they have to overtly repeat the sign when it is presented . |
| 21 | Thus many farmers have young store cattle which they either sell at market or fatten on fodder crops on their own farms . |
| 22 | A second , and more interesting , possibility is that subjects are actually recalling the situations in which they personally felt at risk irrespective of any other features of the junction . |
| 23 | People who are interested pay £2,500 which they then exchange for stock and an exclusive area . |
| 24 | SEYMOUR PAPERT believes that children learn by building their own intellectual structures which they then apply to reality . |
| 25 | Many people associate the Alexander Technique with putting particular parts of the body into certain positions which they then hold in place thinking that this is improved posture . |
| 26 | At the time he thought this ‘ dance ’ merely alerted the other bees to the presence of food , which they then located by smell . |
| 27 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 28 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 29 | Many parents can put their finger on a moment or incident when they experienced this transition , which they often mark as rebellion . |
| 30 | In drug addiction and in the eating disorders the processes may be even slower because the drugs or the distorted eating pattern may cause more confusion and damage to thought processes and also because the sufferers may be young and may need to live through the emotional pain of adolescence that is necessary for maturity and which they earlier avoided by recourse to mood-altering chemicals , substances or behaviour . |