Example sentences of "which he [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a lengthy loan spell at Leeds in which he failed to break into the first team , he signed for Shrewsbury in 1986 for £25,000 . |
| 2 | His solemn burial was at Constantinople alongside the cenotaphs of the twelve apostles which he had placed in the church of the apostles on the city 's highest hill . |
| 3 | For even if the setting did not have the same grandeur and the leading characters did not have the same epic cast as twenty years earlier , the role that de Gaulle himself had to play was at least as arduous as that which he had played in the Second World War . |
| 4 | Baldwin , following the conclusion of certain pacts with Philip Augustus , sought to extricate himself from the possible threat of excommunication and interdict on his lands which he had accepted at the time of the agreement if certain conditions were not fulfilled . |
| 5 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 6 | Would he have flung the bitter allegations and repeated the damning indictment of her which he had made at the time of Simon 's death ? |
| 7 | The first was that during the dispute of 14 June to 5 August 1911 , Wilson undercut an agreement which he had made with the Clyde shipowners for a minimum of £pound5 10s a month by " temporarily patching up his bitter quarrel with the Shipping Federation and simultaneously accepting an all-round payment of £pound5 a month " which the shipowners were eventually forced to increase to the Glasgow level as standard . |
| 8 | This was seen by some as an attempt to improve his image abroad after remarks which he had made during the presidential election campaign to the effect that he was " untainted " with Jewishness . |
| 9 | He spent one night in New York and then , nursing a cold which he had contracted on the boat , he went straight to Boston — with his relatives , in particular his two sisters and his late brother 's family , and with old friends like Emily Hale and Djuna Barnes , he could still enjoy an affectionate intimacy which he seemed to lack in England . |
| 10 | In the sudden blaze the emperor was discovered blinking angrily at a tree-stump with which he had collided in the dark . |
| 11 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
| 12 | Hakim , who had pleaded guilty in November 1989 to a misdemeanour charge ( helping to supplement the salary of North by arranging to pay for a security system at North 's home ) in return for the dropping of five felony counts [ see p. 37037 ] , was praised by the judge for the assistance which he had given to the Iran-contra investigation . |
| 13 | This drove Norman to consider putting the reputation and earning power which he had developed for the company to his own use , and in 1982 he formed Norman Resources Limited . |
| 14 | Marcus , with Pat , looked tired , resuming the look of weariness which he had worn after the ‘ resurrection ’ . |
| 15 | But the face into which he had gazed across the candle-flame had been neither tamed , nor troubled by any foreboding . |
| 16 | But two days later he was on duty , coloured bright orange from iodine on cuts and bruises got at the elections which he had attended in the Jlulat interest . |
| 17 | The Pope 's gift was a spray of golden flowers to complement the Golden Rose which he had sent to the Empress . |
| 18 | Dismissed in the last months of his life as a spent force who would not match the powerful energy invested in the compositions which he had created at the beginning of his nine-year career , Basquiat briefly recaptured , by the unhappy circumstances of his death , an image of glamour and a wave of speculation which pushed the prices of virtually unsaleable pictures to $500,000 . |
| 19 | This point is of course another criticism of the individualist philosophies of utilitarians and of economists who saw early man as a kind of Robinson Crusoe trying to interact with nature in isolation and according to ideas and institutions which he had created on the spot . |
| 20 | At this date the king demanded that the archbishop should confirm some military tenancies which he had created on the archbishop 's lands during the vacancy . |
| 21 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 22 | Sir Robert Graham , angered by a spell of imprisonment from which he had escaped into the Highlands , set up a conspiracy with two Stewarts , one of them James 's uncle and the other his own domestic chamberlain . |
| 23 | She had written a receipt for the month 's rent for the garage , which he had proffered at the same time , and had received the book with a watery smile . |
| 24 | There was no hint of the troubling flirtatiousness which had confused her on earlier occasions , yet neither was his manner that of the ‘ matey , all good pals together ’ variety which he had adopted during the first weeks of their friendship . |
| 25 | Some days later we received from Paul Ingouf copies of the article about our visit which he had written for the Cherbourg newspaper , together with further photographs and documents . |
| 26 | After three years , during which he had to cope with the death of his youngest son , Mr Mathew was denied leave to appeal against the March 1984 judgment . |
| 27 | In contrast to previous campaigns , in which he had kept within the limits imposed by the Executive , Cripps decided to take his proposals direct to the Party membership in defiance of official decisions . |
| 28 | During the course of the 1929–31 government , MacDonald gradually appreciated that the hopes which he had entertained during the 1920s of eliminating the Liberals and winning over the whole of the progressive vote for the Labour party could not be achieved . |
| 29 | ‘ By that time , also , there were a lot of blues albums being reissued , like Otis Rush 's ‘ Groaning the Blues ’ which he had recorded in the late '50s with Ike Turner producing , and it had some of the best blues tunes on it , and some of the best playing I have ever heard . |
| 30 | But when the King of Toledo heard of the hurt which he had received at the hands of the Cid , he sent to King Don Alfonso to complain thereof , and the King was greatly troubled . |