Example sentences of "which he [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father , ruling duke of Celle ( exchanged for Hanover which he had governed from 1648 ) since 1665 , was not married to Eléonore at the time of their daughter 's birth , but , by military and diplomatic services to the Holy Roman Emperor , he obtained the legitimization of Sophia Dorothea and in 1675 the legal marriage of her parents was permitted . |
| 2 | Jones was in his room in the Cabinet Offices , carrying on the routine business of a Labour Government , of which paradoxically he was throughout his life a consistent voting supporter , but enjoying none of the intimacy with MacDonald which he had achieved with each of the three preceding Prime Ministers . |
| 3 | When he attacked C. P. Snow in Two Cultures ? ( 1962 ) , it was the last act of a drama in which he had played for thirty years . |
| 4 | Using his Farman , which he had flown with such excellent results for the past few years , Jack instructed pupils with equally good results . |
| 5 | Chauthala needed to win a seat in the Haryana state assembly to secure his post as Chief Minister , a post which he had inherited in 1989 from his father , the powerful Deputy Prime Minister , Devi Lal . |
| 6 | Then , when King John took over the French lands which he had inherited in 1200 , he was allowed to do so only on condition that he should recognise them as being fiefs held of the king of France . |
| 7 | The complex legacy which he had inherited in 1016 had been well utilised , a considerable number of its problems solved ( for a time , at least ) , and many of its opportunities taken . |
| 8 | It may be significant that Clermont , which was one of the Aquitanian cities consigned to the east Frankish kingdom of Theuderic and his successors , was also one of the cities which he had invested in 507 , in the aftermath of " Vouillé " . |
| 9 | ‘ Then one day a learned educationist visited the island and met the boy and was astonished at his understanding of many things and at the knowledge which he had developed round these things , and the educationist said to himself how wonderful it would be if every child in the land had the learning which this boy had built around the simple experiences which he had had with the bees , pigeons , flowers , vegetables , forestry and visits to York and Malham . |
| 10 | He intended to remain as PCP MP for Madawaska-Victoria , New Brunswick , which he had represented since 1984 . |
| 11 | Geoffrey de Geneville outlived his two sons , Geoffrey and Peter , and died in 1314 , far from his native Champagne and full of years , at the Dominican priory of Trim , to which he had retired in 1308 . |
| 12 | Vang Pao had earlier told the Bangkok Post newspaper of the formation of a " revolutionary government of Laos " which had established itself in Laos and which he had visited on certain occasions . |
| 13 | For whatever reason he did not stop at the Fish — which he had visited on several occasions ; nor did he seek out or meet Mary whom he knew and greatly admired . |
| 14 | Despite the gravity of the crisis , Eden in 1956 followed the practice which he had adopted in 1955 , of putting the full Cabinet on ice during the summer recess . |
| 15 | The tearing pain returned and the doctor prescribed large doses of morphia which he had kept for this time . |
| 16 | Further , his duties were substantially a continuation of those which he had undertaken for several years in connection with Tutorial Classes and the annual summer school arrangements . |
| 17 | The government of Lord North , which he had opposed in 1773 , encouraged Sulivan to take on the management of the Company yet again in 1780 . |
| 18 | After municipal elections last June , Mr Andreotti and the Christian Democrats ' party secretary , Arnaldo Forlani , vetoed Mr Orlando 's attempt to renew a coalition with the Communists and the Greens with which he had ruled for three of his five years as mayor of Palermo . |
| 19 | Haverford was warming to a theme which he had expanded in some of his best-loved ‘ Jottings ’ . |
| 20 | Hammond had a brush with the Commonwealth 's accounts committee in 1651 , but protested that he had accounted fully and properly for all the sums which he had received in all the three armies in which he had served ; he pointed out that his account from July 1649 on was with the army in Scotland , where by this time George Monck ( later first Duke of Albemarle , q.v. ) had succeeded him as lieutenant-general of the ordnance . |
| 21 | Not painted for a specific location and comprising canvases of different dimensions , the frieze was a pool of images from which Munch made withdrawals for sale , replacing the pictures which he had plundered with new versions of the same composition . |
| 22 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 23 | President Joaquín Balaguer Ricardo , 84 , declared on Feb. 27 that the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC ) , which he had formed in 1964 , should elect a new leader to allow him time for other commitments . |
| 24 | In his later years Pritchard lived in a house called Eyton Turret in Eyton-on-Severn , Shropshire , which he had formed from one of a pair of Jacobean garden buildings in the former grounds of a demolished mansion . |
| 25 | Indeed many of the disagreements of the following years seem to be associated with cities which had once been held by Charibert , and this was to hold true even after the murder of Sigibert , since lands which he had acquired in 567 became bones of contention between his son , Childebert II , and Guntram . |
| 26 | Alexei allowed himself to dwell upon the knowledge which he had retained from that long-ago survey briefing . |
| 27 | Jean Monnet also continued his efforts through the Action Committee for the United States of Europe which he had founded in 1955 . |
| 28 | Nakasone declared himself " purified " by his re-election , although the faction which he had founded in 1965 lost more heavily than any other within the LDP and was reduced in relative importance from second place to fourth , behind those led by Takeshita , Miyazawa and Abe . |
| 29 | This had grown out of his very successful Special Theory of Relativity which he had published in 1905 and which can account for two-thirds of the 43′ residual . |
| 30 | The matter gave him enormous regret , no doubt an unhappy situation whose solution lay in the lap of the all-merciful Allah ; nothing would give him greater pleasure than to return to Mr Laing his passport , which he had taken into nightly safekeeping only at the specific request of Mr Pyle . |