Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as acting as a surrogate mum to the hedgehogs , Christine has also given physiotherapy to tortoises and given the kiss of life to a pet rabbit , which everyone thought had gone to the great hutch in the sky . |
| 2 | The old G201 grade , which everyone thought had had its day , has become a clear success ! |
| 3 | At this point I had one of those Proustian flashbacks about just such a place which I seemed to have known in childhood . |
| 4 | Lateral line disease is a problem which I know has puzzled many marine keepers |
| 5 | Sir you 'll have seen the County Planning Officer 's own report on these matters and you 'll have seen exactly the same comments which I 've made contained in that report . |
| 6 | Which would be as good a way as any for me to get Rainbow off the premises , before those inhibitions of hers — which I 've left bound and gagged at the back of her wardrobe — work their knots out and come riding to the rescue . |
| 7 | ‘ V S Pritchett wrote a wonderful thing which I 've got pinned up above my desk : that you do n't invent a plot , you invent a character , and then the character leads you off and that becomes the plot . |
| 8 | They are not indeed , like proper names , unmeaning ; for the words sensation of white signify , that the sensation which I so denominate resembles other sensations which I remember to have had before , and to have called by that name . |
| 9 | there is a further letter from R Jasper More and one from a local person which I hope to have published in the next Journal . |
| 10 | At the G7 Heads of Government meeting , my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister obtained the personal commitment of the round before the end of the year and it was partly as a result of that that the valuable meeting took place between President Bush and Mr. Lubbers , on behalf of the Community , which I hope has moved matters towards a conclusion . |
| 11 | ‘ We are emerging from just about as difficult a period as I can remember in over 37 years in the business , but we are emerging with capital ratios still among the strongest of any of the world 's banks — ready and willing to lend for any viable purpose , and desperate for the chance to show both personal and corporate customers that the personal , flexible , friendly service which we have tried to give in the past and which I hope has given us the privilege of enjoying your company tonight — that same service is still very much on offer today . ’ |
| 12 | Sand was cleaner than water , the desert dead cleaner than the drowned dishevelled things which I had seen thrown up on shores . |
| 13 | I remembered that Valerie Briscoe-Hooks had her vests pinned to her shorts , which I had thought looked quite smart . |
| 14 | I agreed with Gyggle , only by entering the dreamscape , the hypercast of my hotted-up mind , could I hope to resolve this paradox and once and for all free myself from the malevolent force which I felt had shaped my life . |
| 15 | Sir , Trade publishing , both in this country and the US , has undergone a sea change in the last two years which I believe has gone unremarked . |
| 16 | It is not a label which I want to see attached to the British economy . |
| 17 | As I pick up my jacket from the Sarson 's Malt Vinegar box which I seem to have appointed as coat-rack , I pull the lid up with it . |
| 18 | I have strong political disagreements with something which I think has dominated political discussion in the women 's movement recently which is the politics of identity . |
| 19 | Er Chairman , yes , if I may just make a couple of , of , of , of , of , comments on , on , on the report side , I , I very much welcome the report back which I think has clarified a number of areas in the inspector 's report and what the services are actually , actually are doing about this one , I think er overall it 's er it , it , it 's , it 's very , it 's very er it 's very er very useful to see er what has been done erm I , I , I , I , I 've been assured by the Chief Officer er on item , item er , item three one at the top of page two , that the operational plans being devolved to individual sch will not apply to operational activity , they will be er to separate activity within the s er sch station , erm I did raise that because I was concerned about one station saying yes we will attend the fire and another one saying we wo n't , which obviously is not appropriate er but with that caveat I , I , I , very much welcome the report , I would like to move the proposals sch standing in , in , in , in , in my name that we commend the report as well as er er what 's on the officer 's erm er , er , er recomen er the re the recommended er resolution and that we send a copy of that , this |
| 20 | Which I suspect has lapsed . |
| 21 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 22 | I have long dark hair which I have to wear tied back for college . |
| 23 | I hope you will agree that in these two instances I have cited from his career — both of which I have had corroborated and believe to be accurate — my father not only manifests , but comes close to being the personification itself , of what the Hayes Society terms ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I wo n't name any examples of good practice but leave you to think of the company , charity or public body which you feel has had all round seal of approval , ’ she commented . |
| 25 | I do n't think it 's quite once a week cos the weekend which means you have quite a big build up on a Monday which you want to get rid of . |
| 26 | For instance , dispersal patterns of the continents following the break-up of Pangaea show that the now separate continents have been moving away from Africa , which itself appears to have remained relatively stationary . |
| 27 | On the other hand , Mrs Thatcher was wont to see in the Delors Charter the kind of creeping state socialism and patronage of the trade unions which she hoped to have dispelled in Britain itself . |
| 28 | It was a surprise because I 'd barely thought of her since I was fucked by her dog , an incident with which she had become associated in my mind : Helen and dog-cock went together . |
| 29 | Charlotte Campbell was more than delighted to have received a reply to her letter for the position of children 's nanny which she had seen advertised in The Times . |
| 30 | She was of course famous for her powers of observation ; she was better than any of us at using the mirrors which she had had installed everywhere to keep an eye on everything that was happening , or was about to happen and might need averting . |