Example sentences of "which he [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He had , in fact , long cherished a secret fantasy in which he had joined the privileged ranks of Oxford undergraduates , racketed through three glorious years of academic and sexual triumphs , then gone on to lead the kind of effortlessly successful life from which working-class origins and a foreshortened education had in reality excluded him . |
2 | On the other hand he would have a much enlarged Aquitaine , to be held in sovereignty , the ‘ perpetual liberty ’ which he had instructed the Black Prince to demand of his royal prisoner in 1357 , and which would remove at a stroke the threat of confiscation . |
3 | Sharpe remembered the familiar skill with which he had killed the French Lieutenant in this very rye field . |
4 | He spent most of August in Worcestershire and September at Aix , which he had discovered the previous summer . |
5 | His long episcopate , during which he had reconstructed the Catholic Church in the west of Scotland , ended with his death in Glasgow 27 March 1902 . |
6 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
7 | After the closed meeting , military sources reported that Yeltsin had informed them of 90 per cent pay rises which he had ordered the previous week . |
8 | He had exhibited work every year since 1847 , and had given about three of a series of lectures on mediaeval architecture to students at the Academy , which he had started the previous year . |
9 | His grandfather 's picture lay in his grandma 's album , two from the end , showing his grandfather wearing his lordship 's livery , in which he 'd driven the old Baron to the coronation of King George VI in 1937 . |