Example sentences of "which [pers pn] had find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the Cheka people high intellectual standards combined with education and culture had not assumed the outward expression which I had found to be so hateful among the former Russian intellectuals … . |
| 2 | Rattling to the airport in a taxi after despairing of the scheduled bus , I had felt a free-floating grumpiness , a symptom of the thin layers of anxiety which I had found coat the start of any journey in Latin America . |
| 3 | I determined that it should not happen again and it seemed impossible that it should for this time I should carry with me the foundation of happiness which I had found behind the wire . |
| 4 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
| 5 | Jane gave it a tin of meat which she had found plus — with great relief — the tin opener . |
| 6 | She began working with ‘ handicapped ’ children and concluded that the methods which she had found most successful in dealing with feeble-minded children would be quite applicable to those who were normal and that ordinary schools needed the sort of transforma-tion she had accomplished at her own ‘ special ’ school . |
| 7 | In the alleyway in which she had found him he had been protected from the evening surge of the wind , but as they began to walk towards the west it seemed to attack him . |
| 8 | She knew better than to ask her husband what this letter was about however , and awaited his reaction in the reserved , watchful way which she had found safest to adopt in her husband 's presence and which usually concealed more vehement feelings . |
| 9 | The SOCO indicated with her soft , white hands the drawer on the top left in which she had found the scissors . |
| 10 | The yellowish-gray brick houses gave straight on to the street , which she had found only after turning out of another one , and then another . |
| 11 | The elegantly shabby room in which she had found a haven was an oasis in the East End 's desert , which could be glimpsed through the small bow window . |
| 12 | She rose from her chair at the little antique bureau which stood in the attic window space , bent down and fumbled for the catch of the secret drawer which she had found there . |
| 13 | There was a glass-fronted mahogany cupboard where Ellen insisted on keeping Bernard 's family photographs , which she had found at the bottom of a suitcase . |
| 14 | To my delight , thirty minutes after training on the bitter bead there was a substantial increase in the amount of the receptor in the same region of the brain in which we had found changes during imprinting . |
| 15 | The form in which they had found him lying was but one of many places which he used . |
| 16 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 17 | When the archbishop of Canterbury came before the pope for his pallium , the canons of York entangled the Canterbury monks in questions about the precise state in which they had found the privileges — whether they had seals attached to them , and so on . |
| 18 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 19 | They were also asked to describe the major characteristics of the groups in which they had found themselves at each point in their time on the terraces . |
| 20 | I know of one company where everyone became so highly motivated that most of them left , because they now found frustrating a pace which they had found acceptable before . |
| 21 | Benches were wiped , floors were swept , and within a short time Ling 's kitchen had been restored to the pristine condition in which they had found it . |
| 22 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 23 | He complained that there was no root of Veratrum to replace one lost nor of the various martagons which he had found so slow to mature from seed in England . |
| 24 | When the school , with which he had found employment in Ramsgate , removed to Isleworth in Middlesex , he went with it and whilst there he came into contact with the Protestant Church circles which were Free Churches , i.e. not tied to either the Church of England , or the Roman Catholics . |
| 25 | Throughout his career he remained sensitive to criticism which suggested that his view of the world was consistently , unrelievedly and unjustifiably pessimistic , especially after the war which he had found profoundly depressing . |
| 26 | He tried out a badly scratched recording of Dame Nellie Melba singing an operatic aria from Pagliacci which he had found tucked away between a box of rusting tools and a sack of potatoes in the corner of his shed . |
| 27 | What Madame did tell Ellie , however , was that Mr O'Hara was very keen to renew their acquaintance , which he had found all too brief . |
| 28 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 29 | A visitor brought two of these which he had found on the shore near Saligo Bay in the summer of 1980 , for me to identify . |
| 30 | A visitor brought two of these which he had found on the shore near Saligo Bay in the summer of 1980 , for me to identify . |