Example sentences of "which he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much did he dread that his own was a case of ‘ redemption by parricide ’ that he emphasized the unwillingness with which he accepted the divine call with language which is exaggerated and almost coarse . |
| 2 | I was fortunate to be able to include in addition to my own account a lecture by the former Lord Justice Devlin in which he took the fourth Appeal Court severely to task for the illogicality of its reasoning and for usurping the functions of the jury , and a chapter by Bryan Magee about his efforts over the years to try to persuade the Home Office to reopen Cooper 's case . |
| 3 | Harris returned with a ‘ great store of grafts ’ including the famous Pippins , from which he grew the first ever modern-style orchard at Teynham in Kent . |
| 4 | He held up his arms for a kiss and she melted into a sleepy hug and kiss , during which he had the final word and spluttered dribble against her cheek . |
| 5 | After his fine defensive effort in the opening game , Speelman 's supporters had high expectations for the second game , in which he had the white pieces , but it all went horribly wrong . |
| 6 | This absorption into a different community , quite other than anything he had experienced since childhood , into which he had the natural right of entry accorded by his Welsh cousins because of the tie of blood , required a few more Long Vacation visits before he could articulate its meaning for his own mature intellectual development . |
| 7 | He was exhilarated by working with the legendary director Sir Tyrone Guthrie in the Shakespearean tragedy , in which he had the humble roles of Second Serving man and Second Citizen . |
| 8 | At the end of June 1862 , not long after Young Russia and the fires in St Petersburg — and immediately after an attempt on the life of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich — Valuev produced a paper on the internal condition of the empire in which he admitted the many difficulties under which the government was labouring but proposed no more than converting the State Council into a somewhat more representative body and bypassing the judicial system to deal with radicals more speedily . |
| 9 | In the early nineteenth century , Lamartine stayed with the Damiani family in Jaffa and mentioned them in Voyage to the Orient , the same book in which he advertised the colonial possibilities of Palestine . |
| 10 | The lights were on in the office from which he commanded the Carabinieri Company covering the section of the city that lay south of the river Arno and a large tract of country going south through the Chianti hills to the borders of the Province of Siena . |
| 11 | Mr Blatchford was especially concerned about the family — by which he meant the heterosexual , patriarchal family which he regarded as sacred in Labour 's pantheon . |
| 12 | ‘ We are , ’ he said , ‘ about to introduce a scheme to replace the much discredited ‘ trikes ’ , ’ by which he meant the three-wheeled conveyances then issued to the disabled . |
| 13 | Perhaps he could do little else , but there is no mistaking the magnanimity of the spirit in which he wrote the following reply to one question which had been sent to him during his exile . |
| 14 | Also in 1818 Coffey , by then acting inspector-general of excise , published his Observations on Chichester 's pamphlet , in which he restated the official policy but did not produce any very convincing arguments or evidence in its justification . |
| 15 | I thank my hon. Friend for his earlier remarks , in which he recognised the great step forward that we have taken with the Food Safety Act , but I am concerned about his latter comments . |
| 16 | But Anselm may have shared their disappointment : the tasks for which he felt the full weight of personal responsibility were very harassing , and his success in performing them was open to serious doubt . |
| 17 | There was widespread regret when Butler resigned , in 1935 , to join the Agricultural Research Council , of which he became the first paid secretary . |
| 18 | Pasteur was drawn into the field of bacteriology , of which he became the great pioneer ( together with Robert Koch [ 1843–1910 ] , a German country doctor ) , through industrial chemistry , more precisely the analysis of why beer and vinegar sometimes go bad , for reasons which chemical analysis could not reveal . |
| 19 | They had four sons , the eldest of whom , Captain W. R. Colbeck , RNR , was surveyor with the British , Australian , and New Zealand Antarctic research expedition of 1929–31 , for which he received the Polar medal ; Sir Douglas Mawson [ q.v. ] named the Colbeck Archipelago after him . |
| 20 | Using Welsh lamb he created an eye-catching display in a domed circular cabinet for which he received the Three Countries Gold Medal and a cheque for £500 . |
| 21 | On 18 April , in an atmosphere of great tension , Hedilla was elected as the national chief of Falange Española , but , the same evening , Franco made a radio broadcast in which he announced the immediate fusion of the Falange and the Communión Tradicionalista . |
| 22 | The classic study of this tool is by M. Charles Robert in which he compared the Roman examples with the modern equivalent known to the French as le boutoir . |
| 23 | In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’ |
| 24 | He stared angrily back and the softly lit drawing room of the hotel , in which he imagined the sleek lives of the patricians of Ireland , housed in calm . |
| 25 | Under these inducements and persuasions Cranmer signed his fifth recantation , in which he condemned the whole heresy of Luther and Zwingli and recognised the Pope as Christ 's Vicar and Supreme Head of the Church . |
| 26 | LORD ALDINGTON yesterday denied that he had lied to a High Court libel jury about the date in May 1945 on which he left the British Army 's V Corps in southern Austria . |
| 27 | There was no pity for his evident loneliness and many stories circulating about his arrogance and the superior manner in which he parked the cheaply-framed photograph of his parents on his night table . |
| 28 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 29 | Cody was largely responsible for the engine installation of the airship which flew in 1907 , and he designed and constructed the machine on which he made the first powered aeroplane flight in Great Britain on 16 October 1908 . |
| 30 | Pérez escaped from his residence just before it was surrounded , and went to a private television station from which he made the first of four broadcasts to the nation repudiating the coup . |