Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] which had been " in BNC.

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1 Their warm Spanish eyes in luxuriant black eyelashes melted my heart which had been chilled by the dark-glassed fascists in the city streets .
2 He cut me above the eye and broke my nose which had been broken before .
3 The home-help walked down the road towards Marie , wheeling her bike which had been propped up against the curb .
4 After the Civil War Bolshevik control expanded easily from its bastion which had been reduced to the size of medieval Muscovy .
5 If an assessor were to respond to the girl mentioned above in the terms of Frances Stevens 's assessment , he might well find her anxious to draw his attention to other qualities of her work which had been overlooked and which might revise his overall assessment .
6 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 .
7 Smoking the first of five cigarettes from his case which had been undamaged in his rear pocket ( matches from escape kit ) Harry made up his mind to head for a port , walking north-westerly to avoid Potsdam .
8 Second , he effectively demolished the picture of Jesus and his teaching which had been developed in the ‘ progressive ’ theology of the previous generations .
9 In the 1970s Ezra Pound 's laminated view of vital and moribund cultures , centred partly on Provence , made her see M. Grimaud 's easy educating communications about the land , the lore , the language in which she found herself , as a sign of real energy in his community which had been ersatz , or only wished-for , in post-Festival of Britain Yorkshire .
10 His use of ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ heretical ’ allows him to sidestep the terms ‘ classical ’ and ‘ romantic , , so incorporating elements otherwise labelled ‘ romantic ’ into the structure of his tradition which had been sanctified with an anthropological definition .
11 Before he had even set off , however , Pliny the Elder received urgent requests for help from people living nearer the volcano , so his trip which had been intended as something of a scientific investigation rapidly became a rescue mission .
12 The members had a warmth of approach and a human interest in Black and his family which had been less evident among the politicians .
13 We had been shooting once with our FA-MASs which had been tantalising , and most of us wanted to do something more dynamic than learn to fold clothes .
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