Example sentences of "[Wh det] he had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 2 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 3 | It was , as he readily acknowledged , in many ways an unfortunate statement into which he had been pushed by his officials before he had fully mastered the intricacies of the problem . |
| 4 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 5 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 6 | After a one-minute search , he noticed the National Geographic magazine which he had been looking at with the teacher earlier in the day . |
| 7 | But finally deciding it was time to move off , and doing his best to ignore the rooks , which began to mob him again the moment he took flight , he flew three hundred yards to another oak which he had been looking at with some care . |
| 8 | The jangling of his friend 's bells and chains , which he had been using as an aid for navigation , had ceased abruptly . |
| 9 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 10 | and to appear in court , he found himself caught up in a drama in which he had been cast as The Defendant , facing the man he had known as Rich whom everyone called The Plaintiff , and being called to order by someone he had never heard of before called The Registrar and his right hand man The Clerk of the Court — and all in the unfamiliar setting ( set ) of a courtroom . |
| 11 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger of which he had been warned by the occupier , the warning is not to be treated without more as absolving the occupier from liability , unless in all the circumstances it was enough to enable the visitor to be reasonably safe . |
| 12 | He had held sway at the College for 45 years , for 40 of which he had been assisted by his faithful subordinate William Sewell who now , at the age of 58 , was to succeed his master as Professor . |
| 13 | His appointment was the success story of this period , and even when the Goldsmiths eventually washed their hands of the School , they continued to help him with gifts to the Church to which he had been appointed in Portwood . |
| 14 | In other ministerial changes announced on the same day by President Daniel Arap Moi , ( i ) John Okwanyo was appointed to the Water Development portfolio ; ( ii ) Matthews Onyango Midika replaced Okwanyo as Minister for Regional Development ; and ( iii ) John Kyalo was appointed as a Minister in the Office of the President , replacing Johnstone Muendo Makau who had been relieved of this post ( to which he had been appointed in May 1989 — see p. 36648 ) on March 2 [ for full Cabinet list as of September 1989 see p. 36917 ] . |
| 15 | In late December Alberto Jorge Triaca , a former Labour Minister dropped from the Cabinet in a reshuffle in January 1991 [ see p. 37959 ] , was dismissed by Menem as the head of SOMISA , the country 's largest steel mill , a post to which he had been appointed in May 1991 . |
| 16 | Living as he was on the borders of his lost paradise , in the limitless landscape of childhood from which he had been banished into adulthood , an uncomfortable country , I sensed that Jean-Claude was continually grappling with the feeling that his present was a poor reflection of his past . |
| 17 | Many forest landowners were in fact heavily amerced by Passelewe : in 1264 the Abbot of Bruern paid 500 marks for acquittance of all the trespasses of which he had been convicted at the Oxford Forest Eyre in 1245 . |
| 18 | Dauntless cursed the ballot through which he had been burdened with this particular region to patrol . |
| 19 | His father-in-law , Alexander Grant , son of the 8th Laird of Glen Moriston , Invernesshire , had been Commodore of the small British naval fleet on the Canadian lakes and had served for 20 years on the Executive Council of Upper Canada , for which he had been rewarded with liberal grants of land in various parts of Canada . |
| 20 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 21 | He saw the age into which he had been born as a civilisation in decline , and said so . |
| 22 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 23 | It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties . |
| 24 | Demirel had previously pledged to remove President Özal from power , but on Oct. 24 , possibly influenced by the narrowness of his party 's victory over the ANAP , he declared that Özal might continue as President — an office to which he had been elected for a seven-year term in October 1989 . |
| 25 | He remained until 1978 president of the European Broadcasting Union , a post to which he had been elected in 1973 and which he greatly treasured . |
| 26 | Gloucester gave up all the Suffolk manors which he had been granted in 1471 and individual manors elsewhere , including Castle Hedingham and Earl 's Colne ( Essex ) , receiving in return further de Vere land scattered over five counties . |
| 27 | Gloucester gave up all the Suffolk manors which he had been granted in 1471 and individual manors elsewhere , including Castle Hedingham and Earl 's Colne ( Essex ) , receiving in return further de Vere land scattered over five counties . |
| 28 | An Oxford graduate , he had moved into general management in manufacturing and then into international construction and consultancy from which he had been headhunted by Richard Addis , now one of his senior partners . |
| 29 | In the second half of 1966 and throughout 1967 , rhetorical attacks on American policy in Vietnam , which he had been making since 1963 , intensified . |
| 30 | On March 21 Michael Heseltine , the Environment Secretary , announced interim results of the outcome of the review of local government structure , functions and finance with which he had been entrusted upon his appointment to the Major government in November 1990 [ see pp. 37839-40 ] . |