Example sentences of "which he [vb past] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The butler then went in for breeding dogs which he kept in large wire enclosures . |
| 2 | The following passage summarises his views on the combined system , which he advocated in numerous speeches and articles . |
| 3 | After taking a degree in Mediaeval History at St. Andrew 's University , in which he specialised in mediaeval medicine , Mark joined ASH Scotland in 1986 as a Project Development Officer . |
| 4 | He remembered the old church , and from the description of it which he wrote in old age , it is possible to form a more complete picture of its internal arrangements than of any other pre-Conquest church . |
| 5 | One was his simplicity — which he shared in some measure with Joffre . |
| 6 | ‘ His investigative talent , which he displayed in this instance , will no doubt stand him in good stead in the future and I hope that he will have a long and distinguished career , ’ he said . |
| 7 | His visit lasted for a few hours at most — taking into account the time spent asleep — and the only really detailed description he gave was of the accommodation in which he slept in General Gowon 's home . |
| 8 | Darwin delighted in the exquisite adaptations which he saw in living creatures , as Paley and other natural theologians had done before him : contemplating fossils ( or nature generally ) could bring pleasure or pain depending on one 's temperament and state . |
| 9 | So when threshing time came round he bought a considerable amount of liquor which he concealed in strategic places . |
| 10 | As I discussed the history of changes in prisons with officials or ex-officials of TDC , or colleagues at the Criminal Justice Center , I came to think that the most logical order in which to look at the contemporary response to the questions that Howard raised was not the same as that which he followed in those chapters . |
| 11 | Merceron , according to Sidney and Beatrice Webb [ qq.v. ] , ‘ amassed a considerable fortune , which he invested in public houses and cottage property within the parish , thus adding the power of the landlord to that of the parish officer and licensing justice ’ . |
| 12 | The idea was Rupert Sheldrake 's hypothesis of formative causation , which he described in New Sciente of Life in 1981 and outlined in New Scientist in 18 June of that year ( vol 90 , p 766 ) . |
| 13 | But in the motets proper Willaert never employs the device of cori spezzati , ‘ broken ’ ( i.e. antiphonal ) choirs , which he used in eight psalm-settings published in a collection of psalms by Jachet of Mantua , ‘ Maistre Jan ’ , and others in 1550 . |
| 14 | Sir Adrian Boult wrote of his ‘ nervous , electric beat ’ which he used in faster music to great effect in creating tension and variations to pulse . |
| 15 | If Let Us Compare Mytholoqies marks the awakening of his poetic consciousness when the city of Montreal ( and all that was in it , not excluding its female charms ) ‘ began to jump at me , ’ The Spice-Box Of Earth marks the heightening of his Jewish consciousness which he encountered in young adulthood , as a free agent abroad in the world , having to establish his own identity at a time when his own Tradition , and his position in it , began likewise to jump at him . |
| 16 | O'Connor , jnr , three-putted himself to extinction for he needed 22 strokes on the greens in the first nine holes which he covered in 43 shots . |
| 17 | In the later decades of the century the professor of entomology at Oxford , E. B. Poulton ( 1856–1943 ) , made extensive studies of animal coloration , which he explained in Darwinian terms . |
| 18 | He had been eager to start work upon the latter ever since the completion , and relative failure , of The Family Reunion — if only to correct the overt poeticizing and the unbalanced structure which he discerned in that drama . |
| 19 | Abrams attempted to account for some of the striking variations in ‘ neighbour behaviour ’ which he found in different areas . |
| 20 | In an interview which he gave in this year , he expressed his disappointment at the recent development of English poetry and suggested that any " creative advance " would come in prose fiction or in poetic drama : this is clearly what he himself was aiming at , as if he felt he could achieve in drama what he had already achieved in poetry . |
| 21 | In an interview which he gave in this year , the reporter noted how he seemed much " heartier , more unworried and more unafraid of the world than he did … five years ago " . |
| 22 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |
| 23 | Almost the last of the gifted amateurs to hold their own among scientific professionals , his considerable intellect also allowed him to provide clear analysis of administrative problems , which he tackled in conciliatory style . |
| 24 | If the English reader does n't like this , let him ask himself if Housman 's Name and Nature of Poetry , or — touching as it is , and as Pound acknowledges — the career of Harold Monro , is not treated with as much compassionate indulgence as possible in the Criterion articles by Pound which he reprinted in Polite Essays ( 1937 ) . |
| 25 | This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today . |
| 26 | Already in 1915 Pound was making this mistake about the rivers , for in ‘ Near Perigord ’ , which he published in that year , he declares : |
| 27 | Moving with them to north Africa , he was initially held in enforced inactivity behind the lines , a problem which he solved in characteristic style : ‘ The Battle of Alamein began on the 23rd of October , 1942 . |
| 28 | Moscato fought in an amateur bout in Amiens which he won in controversial circumstances at the beginning of April . |