Example sentences of "which [vb past] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skirting the marshy end , they slowly climbed the gentle slope on the other side to join the carriage drive which led them to the stable . |
| 2 | In the 17 hours they were missing after losing their way , they trudged the forest to keep up their body heat until they eventually reached a path with white arrows which led them to the edge of the forest . |
| 3 | It was only after the demise of the ruling reptiles that the class had the opportunity to capitalize on the evolutionary advantages which propelled them to the dominance they have enjoyed ever since . |
| 4 | Thousands of years ago , horses were grazing dinners for the carnivores which stalked them through the grasslands , and the horses which survived were the fittest , fastest , strongest , and most alert . |
| 5 | After three days hard riding , Corbett and his party reached Edinburgh in the middle of a sudden summer thunderstorm which drenched them to the skin . |
| 6 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 7 | When the West Country clothiers ' advocate William Temple wanted in 1739 to point to the advantages of the weavers , he stressed that it was their family earnings which lifted them above the condition of the farm worker . |
| 8 | Although a number of visitors had spontaneously mentioned the quality of the labels as one of the factors which attracted them to the exhibitions , the questionnaire also contained a specific question on the adequacy of the labels accompanying exhibits . |
| 9 | The teachers who were selected to teach the smoking and me project were required to attend a one day training seminar which familiarised them with the project guide and the group leader approach to teaching . |
| 10 | Many of the pre-independence laws enabling action to be taken against privately owned media have been enforced by the new African governments , despite the fact that most new leaders issued statements which committed them to the ideals of free mass media and free expression of opinion . |
| 11 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 12 | In Germany even the most ‘ respectable ’ workers were pressed into the ranks of the proletariat by the distance which separated them from the bourgeoisie , and the strength of intermediate classes . |
| 13 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 14 | The most widely accepted theory of human evolution — proposed largely by anthropologists , and based on fossil findings — connects the transformation of our early ancestors to some geological changes which trapped them in the eastern side of Africa 's Rift valley , in an environment that was suddenly drier and more open . |
| 15 | The wherry shot under London Bridge where the water boiled between the closely built arches , the boatmen dipping their oars so the boats could squeeze by the starlings which protected them against the thick stone arches . |
| 16 | The historical development of associations concerned with the employment relationship during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries may be explained as a negative response on the part of employers to accommodate the external challenges which confronted them on the basis of three broad sets of factors . |
| 17 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 18 | He says charity shops should be allowed to sell second hand toys as they 've always done and the legislation which took them off the shelves was wrongly framed and should be scrapped . |
| 19 | She and her husband were met at the station by a small open carriage which took them to the palace . |
| 20 | The first of two holidays they spent together was on a cruise ship , the SS Romantica which took them to the Greek Islands . |
| 21 | Two seasons ago , they beat Sparta Prague 2-0 in Czechoslovakia , then drew 0-0 in Napoli on a European Cup run which took them to the semi-finals . |
| 22 | Gray made more than 600 Football League appearances in his playing career and shared in Darlington 's double championship triumph which took them from the GM Vauxhall Conference to the Third Division in successive seasons . |
| 23 | In 1992 there were 1.3 million fewer employees than in 1973 , and although there were 950,000 more people self-employed and 325,000 people on various training schemes which kept them off the unemployment register , there were 77,000 fewer in the forces and 122,000 fewer people in work . |
| 24 | Some of the more militant resisters complained that they were being ‘ diddled ’ by the ‘ ingenious , tolerance of a state which deprived them of the opportunity , welcomed by Clifford Allen twenty-five years earlier , ‘ for the young men or our generation … [ to bear ] witness to the faith that [ was ] in them . ’ |
| 25 | More important , they were granted a plenary indulgence which freed them from the terrors of purgatory and hell , and held out to them the promise of eternal life in heaven . |
| 26 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 27 | Their poverty and loneliness were part of an isolation from ordinary family life which left them at the margins even of childhood memory . |
| 28 | The Commonwealth became to politicians and men of affairs what Indirect Rule was to the DO — a chance to display those qualities which justified them in the possession of an empire , and thereby ensure its perpetuation . |
| 29 | Leeds failed to recapture the form which swept them to the title in 1991–92 and , according to national newspaper reports , Wilkinson has had to endure a torrent of abuse . |
| 30 | The Black Prince supposedly granted the ferry rights in 1364 to his porter William Lenche who had lost an eye at Poitiers and later that century they passed to the borough , which held them until the opening of the Tamar Bridge . |