Example sentences of "with which [pers pn] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Alliance united the traditional communities of Amazonia ( Indians , rubber-tappers , Brazil nut gatherers , fishermen ) in a crusade to save the great forest with which they had lived in harmony for generations . |
| 2 | As they could no longer live in trees and needed the plants with which they had co-evolved in the more seasonal habitats in the beginnings of agriculture , at least vegeculture , those who did not cultivate had to trade . |
| 3 | This is a situation of which modern theologians have been well aware — often too much so for the comfort of many in the churches — and with which they have tried in various ways to deal . |
| 4 | Across the room , nursing the remnants of his coffee , warming himself , the tall , thin creep was greatly impressed by the delicacy and decorum with which she had reacted to the West Indian 's vulgar demonstration of how to ruin a piece of pie . |
| 5 | To his dismay , she wept and only then did he hear of the plan with which she had gone to Mrs Browning . |
| 6 | This may have been an exaggeration based on her own experience , but was related to the attitudes and difficulties with which she had to contend during training . |
| 7 | He knew that he would be rash to expect everyone to obey him all the time ; he had secured the Moghul throne for himself by the skill with which he had played off his brothers against one another , and he distrusted most of the people around him . |
| 8 | Then he visited his friends — too often for their good for he held to his heathenism with all the tenacity with which he had clung to his beloved Wallowa Valley ’ . |
| 9 | He wanted to make another attempt at the kind of theatrical work with which he had experimented in Sweeney Agonistes — a verse drama but one in which the verse seems the natural expression of modern life , and which is able in a heightened or symbolic context to employ the tones and inflections of ordinary , contemporary speech . |
| 10 | With ANC president Oliver Tambo undergoing prolonged medical treatment ( in connection with which he had travelled to Sweden on Jan. 3 ) , the senior Lusaka-based ANC leaders were general secretary Alfred Nzo , as acting president , and Chris Hani , the chief of general staff of the ANC military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe . |
| 11 | In the sudden blaze the emperor was discovered blinking angrily at a tree-stump with which he had collided in the dark . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The raillery with which he had spoken to her in her early days at Vetch Street had changed its nature . |
| 14 | At both the Annual General Meeting , and the Council Meeting earlier that day , tributes were paid to Mr Flemington for the energy and commitment with which he had presided over the Institute and promoted its work . |
| 15 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 16 | The president deployed the weapon with which he has calmed past discontents , saying he would announce his heir-apparent . |
| 17 | Incidentally , though Walker is held to be still more than a touch rusty after so long away from rugby — inclined , for instance , to carry the ball under the wrong arm — the rapidity with which he has come into cap contention ought to be food for thought for our own Jamie Henderson . |
| 18 | Many of the constituency cases with which I have dealt in recent months have especially worried me because they seem to show that the financial hardship now experienced by many students is especially severe for those who come from low-income families . |
| 19 | One of the more remarkable features of this project is the speed with which it has progressed from conception to completion of construction . |