Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked in horror at his hand , and the small specks of rust which were staining his skin from where he was exerting such extreme pressure . |
| 2 | From the start of his personal rule Edward showed the qualities of leadership , affability and sympathy with the aspirations of the nobility which were to characterize his reign until its last decade , and which underlay the domestic political harmony of the ensuing years . |
| 3 | Baillie-Stewart had renounced his British citizenship before the war and applied for German naturalisation , a gesture which was to save his life in 1946 . |
| 4 | In 1253–4 he went peacefully to visit Louis IX at Paris and , as duke of Aquitaine , to arbitrate a feud which was dividing his city of Bordeaux into two powerful factions . |
| 5 | Although publicly scathing about the student left and the anti-Vietnam movement , Healy none the less cultivated a discussion circle of London writers , actors and television producers , it is said with some charm and intellectual force , which was to presage his fixation with Equity , the actors ' Union which increasingly provided personnel and finance for the ERP . |