Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [Wh det] he [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He foresaw a partnership in which he would pursue his sporting and eccentric intellectual interests and keep in close touch with female confidantes . |
| 2 | Naihe from Ka'u on the Big Island was so expert a surfer that his fellow chiefs grew jealous and plotted to lure him into a surfing contest in which he would die . |
| 3 | The Rev John Boocock said he was looking forward to acting the David Dimbleby role as he gives up the regular ‘ sermon slot ’ for a full interview in which he will try and investigate the relationship between the church and education . |
| 4 | He soon became a familiar hazard with his dog Kim , ‘ the village terror ’ , and his car in which he would career at fully twenty miles an hour down the narrow lanes . |
| 5 | Johnson , however , fully aware of the likely number of biographers he might attract before and after his death , found here a biography in which he could have a say , thus not only securing his immortality , but controlling it . |
| 6 | McCoist , whose next goal will be his fiftieth of the season for Rangers and Scotland , is in the midst of the kind of run in which he can do no wrong . |
| 7 | Oxford , the scholarship , would then have been the defining influence , become the place in which he could have planted his flag and redrawn himself . |
| 8 | He thought of a Socialist future for his half country , and conceived the hope of a job in which he might have the luck to be gripped by some stupendous ire of work , trying to avoid the spectacle of the people around him and in the wet street outside , which pointed out a fraternal indifference in the world that was the last perception he cared to harbor . |
| 9 | Anyway , he always told himself that this would be the last time ; this time he would find some really good job in which he would get on really well and his talents would be appreciated and people would like him and he would surprise all his Tormentors , so there would be no reason to go through the whole fraught and sapping business of signing on again . |
| 10 | And yet the mundane circumference beyond which he stepped at such times was also necessary to him : it was the circle in which he could stand and be safe . |
| 11 | Each man had his everyday business in which he could feel he had his niche and even at times his indispensability . |
| 12 | The footholds grew narrower as he climbed higher , but a deep groove in the rock face opened out into a chimney in which he could brace his boots against the sides . |
| 13 | There was a limit to the amount of drama in which he would involve himself . |
| 14 | De Niro 's directorial debut , Tales Of The Bronx , is schedule for early 1991 , but the first film his company has planned is a comedy in which he will co-star with Danny De Vito . |
| 15 | He takes a pride in what he can do in a small space . |
| 16 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 17 | In a rather confused , uncertain , period Reagan stood out as an upbeat , optimistic candidate who , despite his failings , had an easily understood programme and a clear sense of the direction in which he would take his country , if given the opportunity . |
| 18 | Pound 's forbearance towards Williams remains astonishing , the more when we realize that Williams 's challenge to him came when he was remarkably uncertain and at sea about his own talents and the direction in which he should go . |
| 19 | His official weight was 11st 12lb — 1lb under the limit for the super-middleweight division in which he will campaign in the future . |
| 20 | Some of the lighter moments around the time of the release of Easy Rider and Nicholson 's coming-out party , provided contrasting and bizarre elements which were all relevant to the age in which he would become established as their hero . |
| 21 | Commentary : where an offender is dealt with for a breach of a community service order , he must be sentenced ( if the order is revoked ) in a manner in which he could have been sentenced by the court which made the order , if he is in breach of a probation order , the court may sentence the offender as if he had just been convicted of the offence concerned . |
| 22 | Even such things as the maximum angle of bank in certain configurations are specified , so once a pilot sets out on a particular flight his actions , or at least the manner in which he should fly the aeroplane , are known in precise detail . |
| 23 | With the agreement of my closest colleagues and the director of the MRC 's Clinical Research Centre , Dr C. C. Booth , I provided Dr Ted Steele with an environment in which he could complete his experiments in the friendly but critical atmosphere provided by immunologists who were trying to repeat his results themselves . |
| 24 | If only he could come across a barn in which he could seek refuge from the full force of the gale … but visibility was limited to a few strides . |
| 25 | On 26 January he must give his State of the Union address in which he will outline his major tax proposals . |
| 26 | Joseph was dressed in a formal gray knicker-bocker suit and the Annamese at his side was already wearing the stepped Ming dynasty bonnet , curly-toed boots and embroidered silk gown in which he would pay homage to the emperor of Annam along with hundreds of other mandarins at the annual Tet ceremony . |
| 27 | As I will suggest in chapter eight , the black sportsman sees sport not as a hobby , but as a central life interest , a sphere in which he might find scope for self-expression and a possible avenue out of his mundane , everyday existence . |
| 28 | What sustains him is the comfort he derives from the spiritual world of the Indian , as he escapes the alienating environment of the school to listen to Quechua music and to renew his bonds with the magical world of nature , but his experiences call into question the effectiveness of Quechua values in the white world in which he must live . |
| 29 | The restaurant in which he used to take his lunch , Zur Opfelchammer , is still there . |
| 30 | In 1946 he returned and , under the sponsorship of the local government , began a new photographic project in which he would cover every aspect of life on the island . |