Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stroked her hair which massed in thick dark curls on the pillow . |
| 2 | Katherine remained seated , listening to her daughter 's footsteps hurry up the stairs and then the ceiling creaked as she entered her bedroom which was directly above the sitting room . |
| 3 | No , no just went in ordinary civilian wear , girls sometimes had some overalls because they were handling the ticket boxes , they were metal , they got wet , they rusted up and that was a filthy job for there was really , in those days it was a two box system , a man drew his box which contained a certain amount of tickets of different variable classes and erm , it was listed on a waybill , he was given a half an hour to check his box and join his bus at town centre . |
| 4 | In one room , a frightened man bared his back which was a mass of scabs and bruises . |
| 5 | He built his shed which , made as it was of old floorboards from a couple of hovels that had been empty for years , resembled a shack . |
| 6 | Marcella Tate came to the Incident Room and made her statement which added nothing to the sum of their knowledge . |
| 7 | Bede says that after the defeat and death of Oswiu 's son and successor , Ecgfrith , in the battle of Nechtanesmere in 685 , the Picts recovered their land which the Angles had held and the Scots who lived in Britain and certain of the Britons ( perhaps of Strathclyde ) their independence ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 8 | After five minutes or so and a few shaky moments in some bankside undergrowth , a huge koi graced my net which when put on the scales went a shade over 15lb . |
| 9 | Born in August 1986 , she received her name which means Blue Sky , from HRH The Duke of Edinburgh , International President of WWF , when he visited the Reserve in October 1986 . |
| 10 | Having signed he lifted his head which brought their faces close . |
| 11 | He received his certificate which stated : ‘ These are to Certify that Mr Edmund Bond has attended the Veterinary College as a resident pupil for 18 months and having been examined by us , we consider him as qualified to practise the Veterinary Art ’ . |
| 12 | In preparation for my new job I had attended a three week Radar Observer 's course at the Sir John Cass School of Navigation in London and obtained my certificate which is obligatory for budding Commanders and is identical to the ticket held by Masters and Mates of the Merchant Service . |
| 13 | Mrs Tobias turned her wrist which was fettered with a thin and glittering watch . |
| 14 | Sara carefully separated her gloves which she had rolled up into a ball . |
| 15 | She hated her stomach which stuck out as though she were pregnant however hard she tried to suck it in . |
| 16 | Her face flashed up in Hope 's mind 's eye and he abhorred its prettiness which he saw as entirely calculating , unaware of her lust to be free — through marriage . |
| 17 | Once the agreement had been reached the National Front-Left Front grouping withdrew its nomination which had been in support of the outgoing Speaker , Rabi Ray . |
| 18 | Give his unconscious mind a chance and it usually showed his feet which way to go . |
| 19 | He opened his diary which was lying on his desk and checked by name against his written entry . |
| 20 | They paid me expenses which was expenses to hospital and I think gave me about thirty pound for maternity clothing and that was it . |
| 21 | About 18 months ago , she became aware of the successful development of sales of the product in Germany and Sweden and began her project which now hinges on a decision to be made by Perth and Kinross District council today . |
| 22 | She remembered only two things about New York with affection : the man at Pennsylvania Station , perched high in a little glass box , who announced the trains in the rhythm of a square dance , and the man who returned her purse which she 'd dropped on the platform — a black man . |
| 23 | Yesterday Mr McGahon released her reply which stated : ‘ The issuing of such statements is a long-time irritant to the law-abiding citizens of the State . ’ |
| 24 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 25 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 26 | He cut me above the eye and broke my nose which had been broken before . |
| 27 | I untied my boots which were laced together round one of the bed-posts , put them on and jumped down . |
| 28 | They whitewashed their hair which then went spikey , they invented soap , were keen on their appearance . |
| 29 | They in turn have by defeat lost their rule which has come into the hands of the British . |
| 30 | A general inspector of the Ministry of Health paid a visit to the hospital and submitted his report which was considered by the Area Guardians Committee in December 1945 : |