Example sentences of "[prep] which they had [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 By the middle 1950 's most of my generation were settling down to carving out their careers and bringing up families after the unsettling effects of the war years during which they had experienced all they wanted of adventure and excitement .
2 More mundanely , most likely , prepare to have the family for which they had to wait many wearing years .
3 Across the field the bloom of the cherry tree , under which they had sat that morning , hung sodden and spoiled .
4 In the past strategy was dictated by head office while divisions and international businesses were left to implement actions in which they had played little or no part in developing .
5 The investigators reported from a previous publication in which they had compared these thirteen subjects with twenty-nine borderline schizophrenics , thirty-four neurotics and twenty-three high-risk subjects with no mental illness .
6 Then he felt , vibrating along the ground , the steady tread of a man going away beyond the crest over which they had come that morning .
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