Example sentences of "which [vb past] be his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over his pyjamas he had put on a new Fair Isle pullover which had been his mother 's Christmas present . |
| 2 | For a man like this , still living in the midst of the work which had been his life , retirement had none of its typical contemporary implications : he retained his technical authority along with his social networks and his familiar surroundings . |
| 3 | Before the final had begun , when Forget had put their chances at about 3–1 against and French president , Phillipe Chatrier believed that they had no more than one in five chance of achieving the prize which had been his ultimate goal from the time that he led the French tennis revolution in 1968 , Forget 's possible vulnerability in moments of such stress had been one of the chief causes for such concern . |
| 4 | In returning here he came full circle , back to the room which had been his first glimpse of the Fifth Dominion . |
| 5 | The panoramic grandeur of the place seemed a world away from New York , which had been his home until two years before . |
| 6 | But it is also reminiscent of Cobham Park ( Fig. 12b ) , which had been his first glimpse as a child of the distant houses of the great . |