Example sentences of "which he [vb past] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the morning after his return to Jesus College , Coleridge paused to look about the room from which he had been absent since June , and to record his state of mind in a letter to Southey : |
| 2 | Despite his youth he had travelled alone , sleeping in barns along the route , with which he had been familiar through previous trips in his father 's company . |
| 3 | partly the causes were external — loss of friends , hosts of visitors — but partly temperamental : Tolkien could not ‘ discipline himself into adopting regular working methods ’ ( a fault of which he had been aware since the time of ‘ Leaf by Niggle ’ ) . |
| 4 | He came to regret the destruction for which he had been responsible in the name of church restoration under the unenlightened rules prevailing at the time , and in 1881 he joined the recently formed Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , for which he worked quietly but assiduously into old age . |
| 5 | She knew he was referring to her last meeting with Jake and that explosive love scene in the drawing-room , only the sketchiest version of which he 'd been privy to . |