Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [adj] [noun] he [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Raised in extreme poverty he taught himself to paint in the style of Durer , Bosch , Leonardo and other Old Masters .
2 Cocooned in false-Napoleonic narcissism he reads about his own deed in the newspapers .
3 As was the case with others alleged to be implicated in this affair he left the colony , and has not yet returned , notwithstanding strenuous efforts on the part of the prosecuting authorities .
4 Throughout a life spent in experimental anatomy he worked primarily with the spinal mammal and its reflexes .
5 By 1974 , when he finished Music in Twelve Parts , Glass 's ideas had crystallized in two techniques he calls ‘ additive process ’ and ‘ cyclic structure ’ .
6 When Djilas eventually decided that a new class had emerged in communist society he did not include all administrative officials but rather the ‘ party or political bureaucracy ’ , by which he appeared to mean state functionaries who were also party members .
7 When she 'd first qualified in forensic medicine he 'd been a young sergeant .
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