Example sentences of "which [vb past] his [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its first concern is the phenomenon which , years earlier , had so intrigued Hobbes , and which engendered his interest in motion : the phenomenon of sense . |
| 2 | His friends put two and two together , and so did the media , which beseiged his home by telephone and helicopter . |
| 3 | He looked shifty , and the painter had n't known enough to disguise the bulge under his jacket which made his chain of office lie uneven . |
| 4 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 5 | BORIS the tarantula was today recovering in an animal hospital after a hairy experience in a post box which landed his owner in court . |
| 6 | Walesa 's favourite for the post , former Gdansk Solidarity underground leader Bogdan Borusewicz , was eliminated on the second round , and in the final round Krzaklewski defeated Lech Kaczynski , who had been secretary-general and de facto second-in-command under Walesa and temporary co-chairman since Walesa 's resignation ( which followed his election as President of Poland in December ) . |
| 7 | In spite of the improvement which followed his rest before Christmas there has been a recurrence of abdominal symptoms . |
| 8 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 9 | This was extremely unfortunate for him and the nation which needed his sort of talent and enthusiasm . |
| 10 | This seems to have been the only time that the English king led his men to victory : had the negotiations which preceded his return from exile the same year included a stipulation by those who complained about his previous behaviour ( see below ) that henceforth there should be more determination in dealing with the enemy ? |
| 11 | The walls are lined with paintings depicting the Pharaoh engaged in the rituals which facilitated his passage to resurrection . |
| 12 | The snow was falling more lightly , thank God , which increased his range of vision . |
| 13 | But Bristol was n't Oxbridge , which compounded his sense of alienation from the left-wingery of those high-flying Young Gentlemen , Auden , Spender & Co . |