Example sentences of "which he had [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The tearing pain returned and the doctor prescribed large doses of morphia which he had kept for this time . |
| 4 | Further , his duties were substantially a continuation of those which he had undertaken for several years in connection with Tutorial Classes and the annual summer school arrangements . |
| 5 | After municipal elections last June , Mr Andreotti and the Christian Democrats ' party secretary , Arnaldo Forlani , vetoed Mr Orlando 's attempt to renew a coalition with the Communists and the Greens with which he had ruled for three of his five years as mayor of Palermo . |
| 6 | Seth 's van , which he had owned for four days , was a write-off . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At his trial , Nicolae Ceauşescu simply switched into the public half of the doublethink which he had imbibed for five decades . |
| 9 | He chose this occasion for announcing his retirement from the Treasurership which he had held for thirty years . |
| 10 | He completed two books of historical essays , The Age of Scandal ( 1950 ) and The Scandal Monger ( 1952 ) , and a translation of a medieval bestiary ( The Book of Beasts , 1954 ) , on which he had laboured for many years . |
| 11 | Picture the poor miner cursing the mis-fired hole upon which he had laboured for several hours . |