Example sentences of "which he [vb past] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lanfranc had modelled his church on the one which he had built at Caen with its notably short and stubby choir . |
| 2 | He died in 1792 and was buried in the church which he had built at Cromford . |
| 3 | Torrential rains had fallen each afternoon in the past week , and three days before in the steaming jungle he had contracted a fever which he had kept at bay since with frequent doses of quinine . |
| 4 | There he found fragments uniting the personal and anthropological , whether in the ‘ memory and desire ’ of the Thomsonian buried corpse about which he had read at Harvard , in the Frazerian Mayne Reid deserts of his childhood , in Kipling 's metempsychosis , Rostand , or Jacobean dramatists , or a passage recommended to him by his Harvard Sanskrit teacher , Charles Lanman , who had laid special emphasis on the advice which the Hindu ‘ Lord of Creatures ’ gives to men in thunder . |
| 5 | 21–10 The " Islay " landed a very fine lot of two-year-old Galloway cattle which he had bought at Falkirk for D. Johnston at Laphroaig . |
| 6 | In January this year it emerged that the sometime property dealer and owner of the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo was running late on payment to Sotheby 's for a Picasso and a de Kooning , both of which he had bought at auctions in New York the previous November . |
| 7 | Peach took back his gift , which he had laid at Lyn 's feet , and sat with it in his mouth , making cross twittering growls . |
| 8 | They arrived safely and were met by the royal purveyor from Kinghorn ( also called Alexander ) who had brought horses down to the beach for the royal party ; these included the King 's favourite , a white mare called Tamesin which he had left at Kinghorn for the Queen 's own use . |
| 9 | Instead he studied the reflections in the window ; the blurred beak of his own nose , that thong as if of an Indian brave imprinted across his brow by the absurd cap which he had removed at Crewe and which now lay among the cigarette butts at his feet ; the jutting shoulders of the poker players who sprayed their cards like fans beneath their mouths . |
| 10 | Turning up the music to drown the noise ; old Sixties hits playing as he beats Christopher with his fists , and with the crowbar , which he liked to keep at Christopher 's flat , dangling from a nail in a wall . |
| 11 | Robert Dunlop will , after all , ride in the 125cc class on the same bike which he borrowed to win at Cookstown and Tandragee . |