Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy hand of a resident father would probably not have stopped him being suspended from school three times , once for smoking , once for swearing and once for self-confessed vandalism ( breaking a rival basketball team 's scoreboard because they played dirty , for which he took a part-time job to pay for the damage ) . |
| 2 | He was educated at Marlborough College , to which he had a lifelong devotion , and at Balliol College , Oxford , where he captained both the cricket and hockey XIs and where he obtained a first class in classical honour moderations ( 1924 ) and second classes in mathematical moderations ( 1924 ) and literae humaniores ( 1926 ) . |
| 3 | He had , however , a natural ability with a penny-whistle , of which he had a great number , one of which he always carried in his pocket . |
| 4 | He was habited youthfully , in black jacket and trousers , over which he had a dripping cape . |
| 5 | McCallen has been having problems with the RVF Honda for which he had a new engine during final practice and as a result , his times have not been up to scratch . |
| 6 | There was , however , always one matter for which he had a personal responsibility which he could share with no one else . |
| 7 | ‘ . Thus if Scargill was satisfied that ( a ) Branch members would accede to a call for a strike by their local officials , ( b ) that those officials would call a strike , and ( c ) that the National Executive ( over which he had a strong influence ) would sanction such strikes , then he could achieve the equivalent of a national strike without submitting it to the membership at large for their endorsement . |
| 8 | For years he was a member of the Saturday sub editorial staff processing the comprehensive sports copy flowing in from all parts of the world for Ireland Saturday Night , a newspaper for which he had a deep affection . |
| 9 | Within days of moving up he assumed a Farmer Giles accent , extra-shapeless trousers ( nothing is so sexless as an Englishman 's trousers ) , broken boots ( ‘ They do n't just let water in , they suck it in , ’ he said proudly ) , and most important , a bucket hat , of which he had a whole series . |
| 10 | The king did not attempt to achieve this by overthrowing or even modifying the constitution , for which he had a sincere and perhaps exaggerated respect . |
| 11 | With great patience and no doubt a certain amount of pride , for here he was expert , he minutely described the cultivation of pineapples , melons and oranges in stoves and greenhouses , cucumbers on hot beds and of early fruits , wall-forced , for which he had a special reputation . |
| 12 | Wigg 's two passions in life were first a constant and continuing admiration for the British army and second a lifelong interest in racing , about which he had a massive and detailed knowledge . |
| 13 | He was sitting on the ground near his packages over which he kept a protective , hostile arm , as if he did not want anything of his touched . |
| 14 | What seems abundantly clear is that even if there were not the three months ' residence requirement in the case of Northern Ireland , it would still be necessary , in order to qualify to vote , for a person to have there a ‘ residence ’ in which he spent a substantial part of the year . |
| 15 | And provided that he did have a ‘ residence ’ ( or ‘ abode ’ , the concept used in other contexts ) there , in which he spent a substantial part of the year , it would not be necessary for him to be physically present there for the whole three-month period prior to the qualifying date . |
| 16 | To correct the curve it was necessary to stretch the concavity and contract the convexity — in furtherance of which he spent a good deal of his time moving across the floor in a peculiar creeping posture , which Doctor Staples referred to as ‘ Klapp 's crawl ’ . |
| 17 | In 1862 the architectural historian , James Fergusson , denounced Victorian Gothic , by which he meant a servile copying , as a ‘ forgery ’ . |
| 18 | It was Spurgeon who insisted on a classical design by which he meant a rectangular building with portico and six Corinthian columns . |
| 19 | In particular he made a study of natural history , especially of birds , with which he felt a strange affinity . |
| 20 | His career also includes twenty two years with the sales force of Stoddard of which he became a regional Manager . |
| 21 | He later enlisted in the South African Navy , in which he became a chief petty officer specialising in radar . |
| 22 | Such energy as he had to spare from his clerical duties was expended on the cultivation of orchids for which he enjoyed a national reputation . |
| 23 | His years in England as a student of law involved him in an earnest effort of adaptation , and it is clear from his own account that he absorbed through his reading and his acquaintance a sense of British moral aspiration , for which he acquired a genuine respect . |
| 24 | The SEC used the RICO sanctions as a lever to force Milken to plead guilty to six counts of securities fraud ( for which he received a 10 year prison sentence ) , pay $200m in criminal fines and penalties , and deposit $400m into a fund for injured investors . |
| 25 | And I think it 's a very fine piece of work for which he received a first class mark incidentally . |
| 26 | Accordingly , it has been held to be unfair to dismiss a man convicted of one isolated act of incest for which he received a probationary sentence . |
| 27 | He then gave a press conference in which he launched a fierce attack upon the Democrats , accusing them of failing to produce any deficit reduction proposals and of playing politics with the budget issue . |
| 28 | From 1947 to 1953 he served as a trustee of the National Gallery , to which he left a fine collection of photographs of paintings which he had often used to stimulate a love of art in undergraduates . |
| 29 | By his own account , after much expenditure of charcoal and years of failure , he discovered a powder through which he made a successful projection of sufficient gold to pay off his creditors . |
| 30 | It was an impulse out of which he made a whole book ( or at least a whole appendix ) : the Dictionnaire des idées reçues . |