Example sentences of "in which he had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 24 a spokesman for the Islamic Tahrir ( Liberation ) party , Atta Abu Rushtah , was arrested by security forces after a press conference in which he had called for suicide attacks to be launched on Western and allied interests throughout the world in retaliation for attacks on Iraq . |
| 2 | But his death and the mystery surrounding it spelt the end for the Church in which he had worshipped for so long . |
| 3 | It was something to do with the year of the Prophet 's birth , or the year in which he had gone to or come from Mecca or Medina , but Robert could never remember which . |
| 4 | When he attacked C. P. Snow in Two Cultures ? ( 1962 ) , it was the last act of a drama in which he had played for thirty years . |
| 5 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
| 6 | In contrast to previous campaigns , in which he had kept within the limits imposed by the Executive , Cripps decided to take his proposals direct to the Party membership in defiance of official decisions . |
| 7 | On Oct. 13 , 1989 ( i.e. before the ousting of Zhivkov ) , the BCP newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo published the transcripts of letters sent to the Soviet leadership in the 1940s by Bulgaria 's first communist leader , Georgi Dimitrov , in which he had protested at the wrongful incarceration in the Soviet Union of Bulgarian communists during the Stalinist terror . |
| 8 | And there was a second and even more admirable fantasy in which he had knelt at his father 's side , had pressed his clenched fist hard into the groin , quenching the spurting blood , had whispered reassurance into those dying eyes . |
| 9 | I discussed my plans with Colonel Sandford ; he had travelled across Abyssinia to the Sudan in 1907 and served under my father in the Legation in 1913 , returning to Abyssinia with Christine , his wife , after the First World War in which he had fought with distinction . |