Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The religion which Proust eventually elaborated , as we shall see , was I think a religion of art , and the masterpiece which he wrote was of course his novel in fifteen volumes . |
| 2 | Jay was no mean performer ( in Peter 's words ) on the tenor sax but he was nervous and edgy about doing something which he said was against the law . |
| 3 | In his first address to the nation as Prime Minister on June 22 Rao concentrated on the country 's economy , which he said was in a state of crisis . |
| 4 | He dismissed some of the popular images of the Specials which he said were off the mark . |
| 5 | The last time the hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) expressed his concerns , he gave a list of our programmes which he said were to be destroyed and eliminated . |
| 6 | What is our concern , though , is the notion of love which he saw was at the centre of understanding the work of Christ . |
| 7 | His theology was , however , deeply unorthodox and , as we saw in Chapter I , he paid the highest price for wishing to supplant contemporary Roman Catholicism with an alternative religion , which he believed was of older pedigree . |
| 8 | Leaving until last the one which he knew was from Madeleine , he opened Aubrey 's . |
| 9 | And as he had her , he emitted grunts which he hoped were in character for the director of a man-made fibres company . |
| 10 | The annihilation had all but occurred in far-off Europe , but that with which he wrestled was of even deeper concern — the cessation of the faith from within . |
| 11 | First he pointed out his own editorial cubicle , then the adjacent one which he explained was for his personal assistant , Carmel Bedford . |
| 12 | The England in which he arrived was in a peculiar condition , being neither the Brideshead cocktail party of their Ivy League fancies , nor the go-go hotspot of mini-skirted hairdressers pictured on the front of American news weeklies . |
| 13 | He was the editor of the Review of Churches and the first tour which he organized was in 1893 when he took a party of 450 people to Rome for Easter . |
| 14 | He had demanded exorbitant fees for his speaking engagements and billed the Socialist Labor Party for theatre tickets and corsages which he claimed were for Eleanor . |
| 15 | Knowing what he had been through just added a new dimension to what I saw . |
| 16 | She was able to let him go as he was now because she had clarified and confirmed what he had been to her . |
| 17 | ‘ Sealed envelope with Mme Wyatt , ’ he replied , laying an uncharacteristic finger against his nose as if this was what he 'd been to spy-school for . |
| 18 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 19 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 20 | ‘ Did she tell you what he 'd been in prison for ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ There is a land , ’ he whispered , so quiet that most of what he said was at first drowned by her rushings , ‘ that lies to the South , beyond a great blue sea . |
| 22 | What he wanted was to be as dirty as the miners , covered in coal-dust like them . |