Example sentences of "which they [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1958 , five Irish immigrants to Canada purchased Kirk-Hudson Mines Ltd , a Canadian public company , which they reorganised and renamed Northgate Exploration Ltd . |
| 2 | Thus in Ibrams ( 1982 ) there had been considerable ill-treatment and violence by the deceased towards D and his girlfriend , and this led them eventually to plan and carry out a night-time raid on the deceased 's flat , during which they attacked and killed him . |
| 3 | It is not very surprising that turnpike proposals were opposed not only by some who saw a threat to their local economic interest but also by others , like the coal miners from Kingswood near Bristol , who destroyed toll gates in 1749 which they saw as infringing their right of free movement . |
| 4 | Parthia was by now a remote state , though formidable : the Magi had some of the prestige of the mysterious region from which they came and offered spiritual goods of their own . |
| 5 | Record offices , which classified their holdings according to the principles of archival provenance , maintained this hierarchical arrangement in the manner in which they stored and described their holdings . |
| 6 | And even good food was not proof against the malignance that hung in the air , in the rotting soil , in the ill-washed vessels from which they ate and drank . |
| 7 | They concluded that by taking people out of their own homes , however modest , they were being removed from conditions which they knew and made them feel secure into ‘ a new social environment in which priority is given to the collectivity over the individual . ’ |
| 8 | Accordingly , the insiders were under an obligation , inter alia , to disclose material matters about which they knew or had reason to believe the relevant shareholders had insufficient knowledge . |
| 9 | And the people [ of Hellas ] came out of their doors and felt the spiritual stir in the air lightly move the soft hair across the forehead and cool the ray of [ divine ] light , and gladly they loosened their robes to take it to their breast : they breathed more sweetly , touched more fondly the light , clear , caressing sea in which they lived and moved . " |
| 10 | That eerie keening , like the cry of a great predator , was used by shepherds to communicate across the vast wind-swept spaces in which they lived and worked . |
| 11 | They ate at a card-table , which they unfolded and folded again , after . |
| 12 | In the late Seventies , the couple had bought a Tudor farmhouse in Pinner which they extended and refurbished to create a luxurious five-bedroomed house . |
| 13 | While each family possessed a few reindeer for harnessing to sledges , they had no herds , and depended entirely upon hunting wild deer , which they followed or waylaid on their seasonal migrations . |
| 14 | They ignored the talk of war which they heard and concentrated on their pleasures . |
| 15 | The Department 's courses accordingly aim to give an understanding of what German writers and thinkers have had to say in the past of the age and the society within which and for which they wrote and make students familiar with contemporary life and literature , art and film in the German-speaking countries . |
| 16 | Generally , they did not agree with the style of campaigning witnessed on several major campuses , which they viewed as attempts to copy the ‘ bourgeois ’ elections of capitalist countries . |
| 17 | Their self-image was that of the chosen few for whom the spectacle provided an inexhaustible supply of objects ( and people ) to hate , and whilst the apparent ease with which they targeted and disposed of their opposition often made good copy ( the endless adventure , the scandal , etc. ) , there is a sense in which the hectoring tone of their documents became repetitive and wearisome . |
| 18 | The care with which they examined and photographed those bushes before allowing them to be removed brought Paviour quivering to the spot . |
| 19 | Now they each had a picture which they examined and re-examined , trying to breathe life into the two-dimensional image . |
| 20 | They also reported other stolen goods which they found but left to be collected later : a stolen Fiat 500 , eight sheep and a donkey . |
| 21 | There it was held that those persons who had access to inside information were required to observe the ‘ abstain or disclose ’ principle ie they had either to disclose the inside information which they held or abstain from trading . |
| 22 | and their Parliamentary advisors took a long hard look at the powers which they held and decided that the 1902 Act as it stood , could not make a viable tramway system , even when grafted onto the existing Corporation system . |
| 23 | The chairs upon which they sat or leaned were gilded or of shining chrome and glass ; bales of material were half unfurled to spill around more silk and satin ; jewellery was flung down in handfuls upon tables or simply on the ground . |
| 24 | In 1806 he designed the hotel and assembly rooms in the suburb of Clifton , which the firm contracted to build ; but at the same time they were speculating by buying unfinished houses in Clifton which they completed and sold , and in 1809 they were overtaken by bankruptcy . |
| 25 | They looked forward to starting work where they could do more of the things which they valued and join the adult community of men . |
| 26 | The armed guards who had escorted the combatants into the arena retreated through the flush-fitting doors , which they closed and locked behind them . |
| 27 | They were equally trusting in sending country customers goods ‘ on approval ’ , selected from catalogues received in the mail which they retained and paid for by cheque , or returned . |
| 28 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 29 | The newly made pots are glazed when they are completely dry and are fired to 1,285° Centigrade in their ‘ top hat ceramic fibre glass kiln ’ which they designed and built . |
| 30 | This is because the anthropology which they used and reinterpreted was part of a much wider work which went beyond and across any disciplinary boundaries . |