Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the team 's acclimatisation tour of Latin America , he kicked his way into the public 's imagination and sowed the seeds of notoriety which eventually led to his life ban . |
| 2 | Accusations of corruption made against Alfonso Guerra which eventually led to his resignation as Deputy Prime Minister in January 1991 [ see pp. 37263 ; 37968 ] . |
| 3 | He lay still for hour after hour , naked beneath a sheet because of the heat and humidity , the mosquito net cast aside for air , too exhausted even to lift an arm to drive away the mosquitoes which constantly settled on his face . |
| 4 | Manchester United were convinced he was finished four years ago and were happy to let Villa take him — along with the personal problems which also contributed to his departure from Old Trafford . |
| 5 | They now began to side with the extreme wing of the pied noir integrationist movement , which openly called for his overthrow . |
| 6 | Eustace had played a significant part in the struggle between Angevin and Capetian royal houses , but , as with the case of his contemporary , Fulk Fitzwarine [ q.v. ] , it was his exploits as a fugitive on the run from authority which really appealed to his biographer . |
| 7 | Lifting the cup of wine which symbolically pointed to His blood which would be shed on the cross He said ‘ This is my blood of the new testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins . ’ |
| 8 | His hair , which now reached past his shoulder blades , curled as lustily as honeysuckle . |
| 9 | His position was never seriously challenged , except once , when it looked as though the fiercely pro-Government , pro-Afrikaner , ‘ Broederbond ’ — dominated faction which then existed on his executive might oust him . |