Example sentences of "[noun] which he had [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors . |
| 2 | He chose this occasion for announcing his retirement from the Treasurership which he had held for thirty years . |
| 3 | Grey Egerton , describing in 1852 a fossil fish which he had lithographed for the Geological Survey , could take a more cheerful view , calling it a ‘ pretty little specimen ’ . |
| 4 | He could do nothing but wait while the procedure which he had initiated for excommunicating the king if he refused to restore his rights and revenues crawled towards its conclusion . |
| 5 | The virtual destruction of the Liberal Party almost completed the political pattern which he had hoped for since the previous autumn . |
| 6 | In Slater v. Burnley Corporation ( 1888 ) 59 L.T. 636 the plaintiff sued to recover an overcharge of water rates which he had paid for one quarter , but did not succeed . |
| 7 | His other item of equipment was a heavy iron-tipped walking-stick which he had brought for reassurance . |
| 8 | At his trial , Nicolae Ceauşescu simply switched into the public half of the doublethink which he had imbibed for five decades . |
| 9 | The tearing pain returned and the doctor prescribed large doses of morphia which he had kept for this time . |
| 10 | The Minister of Labour , Ernest Bevin , received a message which he had decoded for him in a Leeds hotel by Albert Heal , a trade union leader who had run a pre-war escape route for German socialists that still had watertight communications . |
| 11 | " It was one of the major tragedies of Nicholas I that his reign ended in a war over the Turkish problem which he had worked for so long to solve by peaceful and negotiated agreement " . |
| 12 | Tory leader Coun Peter Jackson said he had expressed doubts about the scheme 's viability , and details on estimated income and expenditure which he had asked for had not been produced . |
| 13 | The physicists who felt they had left their successors with little more to do than to clean up a few minor problems expressed the same mood as August Schleicher , who was sure that ancient Aryans had talked exactly the putative language which he had reconstructed for them . |
| 14 | Some days later we received from Paul Ingouf copies of the article about our visit which he had written for the Cherbourg newspaper , together with further photographs and documents . |
| 15 | This drove Norman to consider putting the reputation and earning power which he had developed for the company to his own use , and in 1982 he formed Norman Resources Limited . |
| 16 | Then he went slowly back to within two blocks of home , drove up the back lane and stopped before the old wooden garage which he had rented for so many years from Isobel Dawson . |