Example sentences of "which he [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was consecrated , however , Cranmer made a public protestation that any oath which he took acknowledging the authority of the Pope was not intended to be binding if it were against the law of God or the King 's prerogatives , nor would it bind him to be less free in reformation of the Church . |
| 2 | The holy weapon with which he did the Lord 's work , cleansing and punishing the fornicating Jezebels of the night , and with which he had punished the sodomite . |
| 3 | Determined to respond in the same offhand manner with which he had made the announcement , she simply tossed her head . |
| 4 | Yoshida 's decision resulted from the deductions he had drawn from Acheson 's major speech on 12 January 1950 in which he had indicated the principles of American policy in East Asia . |
| 5 | There were attacks on Heseltine 's temperament and suitability for office , instancing the occasion on which he had waved the mace in the House of Commons and also the manner of his resignation from the Cabinet over the Westland affair . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the Magistrate had ordered the native pensioners to collect up the vernacular records and documents which lay in shallow drifts in the new trenches … all that now remained of the experimental greenhouse in which he had observed the progress and ubiquity of the Company 's stupidity . |
| 7 | He had added the last three words with the same morose carelessness with which he had decried the car dealers ' convention , but he offered no elucidation as to what the words meant . |
| 8 | Shaikh Abdellatif al-Mahmoud , a professor of Islamic Studies at Bahrein University , was detained on Dec. 14 on his return from a seminar in Kuwait in which he had criticized the systems of government in the six countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council . |
| 9 | He had once , fearfully , climbed the three steps to Mrs Curdle 's caravan and had gazed , fascinated , at the glory within , the half-door had been shut , but by standing on tiptoe he had seen the shelves , the tiny drawers , the cupboards , the gleaming brass and copper and the rows of vividly painted plates as breathtakingly lovely to the child as the bright birds which he had seen the week before at the Zoo , sitting motionless upon their perches , in a splendour of tropical plumage . |
| 10 | He harrowed hell with the same spiritual vigour with which he had overturned the tables of the money-changers in the temple , and the faithful dead were set free . |
| 11 | He got into the small boat in which he had reached the ship . |
| 12 | Wallace , strongly influenced by the multi-dimensional environment and circumstances under which he had perceived the Theory , had also anticipated its very limitations , which are only now being explored by Neo-Darwinists and modern theorists of evolution . |
| 13 | Reflecting on the past life of the hospital , the Rev. Gussman recalled the sense of ‘ tremendous commitment to care ’ which he had felt the minute he went to Alton General . |
| 14 | Whether it was the sudden mention of her mother or the whole emotional portentousness with which he had charged the scene Maggie burst out sobbing . |
| 15 | He , too , had powerful binoculars , with which he had noted the movements among the trees on the opposite side from his own position . |
| 16 | Professor Pieter Kooijmans , former Vice-Chairman of the Dutch delegation to the United Nations , opened the Symposium by reading a letter from a prisoner , which he had received the week before . |
| 17 | The papal army was beaten , and the Pope extracted from the town of Civitate , from which he had witnessed the battle . |
| 18 | Father was sitting cross-legged by the remains of a fire on which he had roasted the leg of a small deer . |
| 19 | The person responsible for the running of the 160-year-old bank , Sergeant-at-Arms Jack Russ , had resigned on March 12 after being criticized in the Ethics Committee 's report for the manner in which he had administered the bank . |
| 20 | These accusations were denied by the government , the BSP , and the Soviet ambassador , Viktor Sharapov , who at a press conference on Aug. 26 said that his only contacts with the government and the BSP had been official ones at which he had delivered the statement of the State Committee for the State of Emergency ( the Soviet coup leaders ) and Gorbachev 's subsequent repudiation of it , and had discussed the forthcoming visit to Moscow of a Bulgarian economic mission . |
| 21 | Hutchinson was also active in the Ironmongers ' Company of London , of which he had purchased the freedom . |
| 22 | Quigley looked in the direction in which he had hurled the paper-stripper as his old lady repeated , ‘ O Jesus , Great News ! ’ |
| 23 | In one of his class exams he set a test in which he had jumbled the sentences in a passage of prose . |
| 24 | ‘ Come on now , mind my beasts , ’ a drover would say , standing up among the Golds of the plaid in which he had spent the night and putting on a practised tone of wheedling grievance . |
| 25 | I know that the rules for feature-page articles are different from those for reviews , but I do think that Alan Clark , who was given large space on the Times ’ main feature page , could have got around to mentioning the book from which he had taken the material for his strictures of Churchill before his last two paragraphs : ‘ And yet , so docile and leader-oriented is the Conservative Party [ Whoops ! |
| 26 | He severely criticised his right hon. Friend the former Secretary of State for the Environment , the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , for the manner in which he had introduced the poll tax . |
| 27 | In 1922 the chief drainage engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture reflected thus upon the constructive uses to which he had put the heroes home from the trenches : |
| 28 | Then he could show him the dismal landscape , and drawings he had done recently , some of which he had shown the Reverend Pietersen . |
| 29 | He pushed across Wickham 's desk a scrap of paper on which he had jotted the number of the building the man went into . |
| 30 | Which he traversed to reduce the sum of |