Example sentences of "which he had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Many years before , an uncle of mine had run along the top of that wall carrying a doormat which he had placed carefully on top of the chimney of the little building adjacent called the Reading Room . |
| 2 | He achieved a double figure percentage of the vote only in Mississippi , and scored a derisory 9 per cent in his home state , compared with the 39 per cent which he had achieved there in the November 1991 gubernatorial contest . |
| 3 | When he arrived in America , Weill did not automatically expect New York ears to take to the music of the Berlin avant-garde in which he had played so prominent a part : instead he set himself the task of learning to write music with an American accent . |
| 4 | Certainly he refused to implicate himself in the development of a theory in which he had played so great a part . |
| 5 | The 2nd Longreen Pack held their meetings in fine weather in the wild park of Longreen Manor , by permission of the estate agent , which he had obtained specially from Sir George Phillips . |
| 6 | Sgt Newman was gunned down by a man wearing a baseball cap as he walked to his car after leaving the Army careers office in Derby to which he had moved only 12 days ago to be nearer his home . |
| 7 | The musical policy of the label had changed — Oldfield thought punk rock ‘ absolutely disgusting music ’ — and it was as if he was no longer important to the label which he had done so much to build . |
| 8 | In Normandy , that part of France which he had made peculiarly his , he had taken over everyday government , now exercised in his name by men appointed by him . |
| 9 | Certainly what Devon Loch heard at that moment was not a noise which he had heard before , and it was some noise — a raucous surge of patriotic fervour as the Royal horse galloped to certain victory in front of his owner the Queen Mother and her daughters Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret , a rapturous climax befitting what was about to be one of the greatest moments of racing history . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , an insurance company with which he had become financially involved collapsed and he lost most of his fortune . |
| 11 | Irina decorated her conversation with the swear words to which he had become more used . |
| 12 | He would ‘ age ’ the wooden panels and painted surfaces on which he had lavished so much skill and care by exposing them to extremes of dryness and humidity , direct heat and cold ; and he used controlled violence to inflict scratches and abrasions . |
| 13 | Cézanne died in 1906 with the feeling of only partially having achieved the end for which he had striven so long and hard . |
| 14 | ‘ In total , he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirit which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 15 | ‘ In total he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirits which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 16 | The type of mission for which he had trained so long at the camp , for which he had endured so many indignities . |
| 17 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 18 | But her hands sought each other in the nervous wringing motion which he had seen before . |
| 19 | The type of mission for which he had trained so long at the camp , for which he had endured so many indignities . |
| 20 | Wilson had borne a personal grudge against ‘ politically motivated ’ militants ever since the seamen 's strike of 1966 had spoiled his incomes policy and the attempted revival of the balance of payments upon which he had staked so much of his credibility . |
| 21 | He had come into his earldom only two years ago , very shortly after the scandal which had sent Dunbar storming over the border into England in dudgeon , and asking for a safe-conduct to King Henry 's court ; for the old earl had died very soon after the coup on which he had staked so much , leaving this new Archibald Douglas to step into his shoes . |
| 22 | The American boy stared at his empty glass , which he had drained nervously at a gulp , and looked uncertainly towards the figure of his mother fast disappearing among the crowd . |
| 23 | The only activity Gerald had forbidden her was the embroidery of tapestry , which he had declared too menial an occupation for a young lady of her intelligence , preferring her to accompany him on his visits to neighbouring landlords as she had done that day . |
| 24 | From his locked cupboard he took out an envelope , which he had received soon after his friend 's death . |
| 25 | In an obituary , Seamus Heaney wrote , ‘ There was about him a delicate wildness , and he often thought that the hare , about which he had gathered so many entrancing stories , was his proper , total animal . |
| 26 | Throughout his career he remained sensitive to criticism which suggested that his view of the world was consistently , unrelievedly and unjustifiably pessimistic , especially after the war which he had found profoundly depressing . |
| 27 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 28 | What Madame did tell Ellie , however , was that Mr O'Hara was very keen to renew their acquaintance , which he had found all too brief . |
| 29 | He complained that there was no root of Veratrum to replace one lost nor of the various martagons which he had found so slow to mature from seed in England . |
| 30 | Her self-confidence never recovered , since if her belief was right there must have been something else wrong with her , some terrible ugliness from which he had fled even into the arms of an older woman . |