Example sentences of "which he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before setting out such facts and relating to the sentences on the individual offenders as are material for the purposes of these appeals , it is necessary first to describe the procedure followed by the Secretary of State in exercising his power under section 61 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , and the steps by which he came to adopt that procedure . |
| 2 | He had a wire basket in his left hand , in which he had placed two tins of pineapple cubes . |
| 3 | While I was in the Gulf , one of our teachers vanished temporarily after a call to a colleague in which he had made disparaging remarks about members of the local royal family . |
| 4 | In the meantime , however , he was most keen that the staff of his predecessor — a staff of which he had heard high praise — be retained at Darlington Hall . |
| 5 | Take the statement that he wanted to see the German play of which he had heard some praise , and consider substituting the co-referring description " the Left-wing play whose inept performance will make him wish he had stayed at home " . |
| 6 | He had preached a sermon in which he had said these words : ‘ It is dangerous to be a Christian in our nation . |
| 7 | In fact he seemed to have lost interest in the book before he had completed it — the last two chapters are haphazardly constructed — and he padded it out with three radio talks on " The Unity of European Culture " which he had given two years before . |
| 8 | But he seemed anxious to show me his own poetry , with which he had filled several notebooks . |
| 9 | He flipped open the book whose pages were filled with her beautiful , careful script , which he had seen many times on the shopping lists which she had made up under Matey 's instructions . |
| 10 | This was the name of the place which he had visited five years before ; he had gone almost in the role of a pilgrim , since it was there that Nicholas Ferrar established a small Anglican religious community in the seventeenth century — a familial life led in poverty , discipline and prayer which was extirpated by Parliamentary troops in 1646 . |
| 11 | Another factor was undoubtedly Layton 's own involvement with Greece , which went back to 1951 , about which he had written many poems . |
| 12 | But he appeared at the Old Bailey for an earlier trespass at Buckingham Palace , during which he had drunk some wine in the office of the Prince of Wales ' private secretary , and was sent to a secure hospital in Liverpool . |
| 13 | Chairman David Nairn thanked Grant for the open manner with which he had answered these questions and brought the first day 's business proceedings to and end . |
| 14 | Subsequently , he achieved a modified synthesis of the vitamin , which he had renamed ascorbic acid . |
| 15 | After the affidavits one of Kesselring 's subordinates , a man named Krumhaar , was cross-examined about an operation in which he had had twelve men from the village of Burgo Techino shot because two of his men had been severely wounded by ‘ terrorists ’ during a parade through the town . |
| 16 | It was accepted quite early on that a seller would be bound by any description by which he had sold specific goods ( Shepherd v Kain ( 1822 ) 5 B&A 240 ) . |
| 17 | He produced another sheet of paper on which he had typed some notes . |
| 18 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 19 | No doubt Mr. Spencer was pleased to note that S.M.E.T. Nos. 36–51 were equipped with track brakes which he had invented many years ago at Bradford . |
| 20 | Mead was blind for the last ten years of his life , but his interest endured in the game to which he had brought such commitment and talent . |
| 21 | In 1981 Surridge became a genial and hearty president of the club for which he had taken 464 wickets ( 29.64 ) and 360 catches ( 58 in 1952 and 56 in 1955 ) and scored 3697 runs ( 13.02 ) . |
| 22 | On Christmas Eve 1827 he arrived at Abbotsford which he had left six months before , as he wrote in a letter , ‘ in doubt whether I should fly my country and become avowedly bankrupt and surrender my library and household furniture with the life-rent of my estate for sale . ’ |
| 23 | He chose as his novel substances the class of compounds on which he had worked 20 years earlier when he was a Ph.D . |
| 24 | Embarrassed by Nonconformists who quoted his earlier writings , in which he had urged religious toleration , he bought up and burned all the copies of The Liberty of Prophesying . |
| 25 | He felt that the play upon which he had bestowed such care had been a failure . |
| 26 | He went into the shed where he kept the tractor and came back with his crowbar , with which he began levering more logs from the trailer to the ground . |
| 27 | But also , he was drawn towards Bernard , whose vision and single-mindedness he greatly admired , and a business which he felt had great potential for further growth . |
| 28 | Chilperic 's wish to appear as a cultivated monarch is not in question ; he wrote poetry , however badly , and he showed some interest in such issues as the alphabet , to which he wished to add four letters , and in theology , where he came close to heresy , when he decided to abolish the distinctions between the persons of the Trinity . |
| 29 | Lopes da Silva later described the reshuffle as " regionalistic " , and also criticized the government 's economic policies , which he said placed excessive hope in foreign investment while ignoring the domestic needs of the population . |
| 30 | The Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , welcomed the proposed change , which he said commanded widespread support and hoped it would ‘ help curb the scourge of knife violence which disfigures Scotland ’ . |