Example sentences of "which had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1922 he resigned graciously to return to his large goods store which had already started up in June . |
| 2 | The two Flemish groups , the separatist Vlaams Bloc and the " ultra-liberal " ROSSEM , which had both performed well in the 1991 elections , were not invited to participate . |
| 3 | Following a frantic phone call from the Hygiene Manager of a major food producing client near York to come and identify a ‘ slug ’ , surveyor Bob Harris from Hull was presented with a leech which had mysteriously appeared right in the middle of the factory . |
| 4 | Their Victorian furniture , which had never looked right in the pre-war semi , was very much at home in their new house — they just needed more of it . |
| 5 | Secondly , as the war became less lucrative ( with fewer expeditions into enemy territory ) and the needs of defence came to dominate military activity , so the glamour of war which had undoubtedly existed both in the previous century and under Henry V , began to diminish . |