Example sentences of "which he have [vb pp] at " in BNC.

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1 Baldwin , following the conclusion of certain pacts with Philip Augustus , sought to extricate himself from the possible threat of excommunication and interdict on his lands which he had accepted at the time of the agreement if certain conditions were not fulfilled .
2 Would he have flung the bitter allegations and repeated the damning indictment of her which he had made at the time of Simon 's death ?
3 Dismissed in the last months of his life as a spent force who would not match the powerful energy invested in the compositions which he had created at the beginning of his nine-year career , Basquiat briefly recaptured , by the unhappy circumstances of his death , an image of glamour and a wave of speculation which pushed the prices of virtually unsaleable pictures to $500,000 .
4 She had written a receipt for the month 's rent for the garage , which he had proffered at the same time , and had received the book with a watery smile .
5 He died in 1792 and was buried in the church which he had built at Cromford .
6 Lanfranc had modelled his church on the one which he had built at Caen with its notably short and stubby choir .
7 Torrential rains had fallen each afternoon in the past week , and three days before in the steaming jungle he had contracted a fever which he had kept at bay since with frequent doses of quinine .
8 But when the King of Toledo heard of the hurt which he had received at the hands of the Cid , he sent to King Don Alfonso to complain thereof , and the King was greatly troubled .
9 There he found fragments uniting the personal and anthropological , whether in the ‘ memory and desire ’ of the Thomsonian buried corpse about which he had read at Harvard , in the Frazerian Mayne Reid deserts of his childhood , in Kipling 's metempsychosis , Rostand , or Jacobean dramatists , or a passage recommended to him by his Harvard Sanskrit teacher , Charles Lanman , who had laid special emphasis on the advice which the Hindu ‘ Lord of Creatures ’ gives to men in thunder .
10 In January this year it emerged that the sometime property dealer and owner of the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo was running late on payment to Sotheby 's for a Picasso and a de Kooning , both of which he had bought at auctions in New York the previous November .
11 21–10 The " Islay " landed a very fine lot of two-year-old Galloway cattle which he had bought at Falkirk for D. Johnston at Laphroaig .
12 It is also a vindication of the lesson Weill , though one of Berlin 's most intellectual musicians , had taken from his mentor : ‘ My teacher Busoni , at the end of his life , hammered into me one basic truth which he had arrived at after 50 years pure aestheticism — the fear of triviality is the greatest handicap for the modern artist , it is the main reason why ‘ modern ’ music got more and more removed from reality . ’
13 But then , for the benefit , as he wrote , of those ‘ who would not be persuaded by any other argument than authority ’ , he mentioned two texts of Popes Calixtus I and Gregory I , which supported the view which he had arrived at by reason .
14 Kirov chose another snap which he had taken at a pavement cafe in Tbilisi , bringing his final selection to four .
15 After the Summer Recess the Cabinet reverted to the subject of capital punishment on 3 November , with the Lord President of the Council reporting on the results of the soundings of Government supporters which he had taken at the request of the Cabinet at its meeting on 15 July .
16 And there was a second and even more admirable fantasy in which he had knelt at his father 's side , had pressed his clenched fist hard into the groin , quenching the spurting blood , had whispered reassurance into those dying eyes .
17 Hopes of an improvement under Churchill were qualified by the determination to prevent any return to the virtual parity which he had enjoyed at the height of his wartime partnership with Roosevelt .
18 Peach took back his gift , which he had laid at Lyn 's feet , and sat with it in his mouth , making cross twittering growls .
19 They arrived safely and were met by the royal purveyor from Kinghorn ( also called Alexander ) who had brought horses down to the beach for the royal party ; these included the King 's favourite , a white mare called Tamesin which he had left at Kinghorn for the Queen 's own use .
20 Instead he studied the reflections in the window ; the blurred beak of his own nose , that thong as if of an Indian brave imprinted across his brow by the absurd cap which he had removed at Crewe and which now lay among the cigarette butts at his feet ; the jutting shoulders of the poker players who sprayed their cards like fans beneath their mouths .
21 The Scottish Nationalists suffered a further setback when one of their leading figures , Mr James Sillars , was ousted from Glasgow Govan , which he had won at a by-election .
22 On Oct. 13 , 1989 ( i.e. before the ousting of Zhivkov ) , the BCP newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo published the transcripts of letters sent to the Soviet leadership in the 1940s by Bulgaria 's first communist leader , Georgi Dimitrov , in which he had protested at the wrongful incarceration in the Soviet Union of Bulgarian communists during the Stalinist terror .
23 He had in his hurry left one drawer just a little open , and was now delving into the carpet-bag , which he 'd found at the bottom of the shelved larder .
24 His journals , which he has published at regular intervals ( the fourteenth volume appeared recently in France ) bear witness to the enormous interest he takes in everything that happens in the world outside him , and to a human being scornful of bourgeois conformity , almost an anarchist , and a convinced pacifist .
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