Example sentences of "which he [vb past] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst I would commend you to study the German Staff Paper in its entirety , I would also draw your attention to its personal citation of AVM Bennett , and note the dateline March — 1944 : " This 35-year-old Australian — known as one of the most resourceful officers in the RAF — had distinguished himself as long ago as 1938 by a record long-range flight to South Africa … an example of his personal operational capabilities … may be cited in the attack which he made of the German Fleet base at Trondheim . " |
| 2 | As late as 1865 , the botanist J. D. Hooker wrote a revealing letter to Darwin in which he complained of the stance taken by their contemporary , Alfred Russel Wallace , who had wondered that scientists should be so afraid to say what they think . |
| 3 | That event had the imprimatur of no less a figure than Louis Aragon , one of the founders of the movement , who wrote an uncompromisingly surrealist preface for it in which he spoke of the rock candy sticks which ‘ emerge from the earth at every seismic shock ’ and toasted Félix Faure , the President of the French Republic who died , in 1899 , in the arms of a courtesan . |
| 4 | That evening Carter gave a warm toast to the Shah in which he spoke of the great importance of Iran 's relationship to the United States . |
| 5 | In an address to the nation on July 25 , during which he spoke of the need for a " fresh start " after the upheavals of June [ see p. 37523 ] , President Kenneth Kaunda pardoned Lt. Mwamba Luchembe and his colleagues who were behind the June 30 announcement of an Army takeover , and announced the release of all other political prisoners . |
| 6 | The series which he executed of the River Thames in January and February 1901 is particularly successful in this regard and stands comparison with his related oil paintings of the same subject . |
| 7 | Rumours of Kozyrev 's imminent resignation had followed the publication of an interview in Izvestiya on June 30 , in which he warned of the possibility of a coup attempt , and accused the defence and security ministries of providing deliberately misleading reports from areas of ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union . |