Example sentences of "[prep] which he had been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MAN told the High Court sitting in Glasgow yesterday of an ordeal at an Argyll quarry during which he had been repeatedly beaten , burnt with a cigarette , had a car driven over his legs and almost hanged . |
| 2 | He drew back , however , from an earlier announcement that there would be an easing of the law to allow 16-year-olds to buy condoms , saying that this idea ( for which he had been fiercely criticized in the week before the conference by Roman Catholic bishops ) was only a proposal to be examined . |
| 3 | He displayed gratification through all the entertainments that took place during and after the feast , and took the floor with the rest during the slow , formal dancing , in which he had been well taught by the various females attracted to his brake and his burrow . |
| 4 | Newman died in 1890 after a career in which he had been successively the most influential thinker in the Church of England , and then in English Roman Catholicism . |
| 5 | He fell silent , but his face was shadowed by the memory of a very personal anguish , and Maria could be grateful for the merciful ignorance that had carried her through those same six years in which he had been so haunted . |
| 6 | Further , he cited the recent decision of In re A. ( Minors ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 106 , in which Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. considered the context in which the return of a child to the country from which he had been unlawfully removed should be approached . |