Example sentences of "which he [vb past] [verb] for " in BNC.
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1 | On Jan. 24 a spokesman for the Islamic Tahrir ( Liberation ) party , Atta Abu Rushtah , was arrested by security forces after a press conference in which he had called for suicide attacks to be launched on Western and allied interests throughout the world in retaliation for attacks on Iraq . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
4 | The directorship , for which he had struggled for years , represented to her only a house in Vanier Heights . |
5 | His first sound film had been Hallelujah , which he had made for MGM in 1929 . |
6 | This drove Norman to consider putting the reputation and earning power which he had developed for the company to his own use , and in 1982 he formed Norman Resources Limited . |
7 | Tory leader Coun Peter Jackson said he had expressed doubts about the scheme 's viability , and details on estimated income and expenditure which he had asked for had not been produced . |
8 | He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors . |
9 | Some days later we received from Paul Ingouf copies of the article about our visit which he had written for the Cherbourg newspaper , together with further photographs and documents . |
10 | The virtual destruction of the Liberal Party almost completed the political pattern which he had hoped for since the previous autumn . |
11 | At that point , the court ordered Koons to hand over the fourth sculpture , which he had kept for himself . |
12 | The tearing pain returned and the doctor prescribed large doses of morphia which he had kept for this time . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | But his death and the mystery surrounding it spelt the end for the Church in which he had worshipped for so long . |
16 | The physicists who felt they had left their successors with little more to do than to clean up a few minor problems expressed the same mood as August Schleicher , who was sure that ancient Aryans had talked exactly the putative language which he had reconstructed for them . |
17 | It was from here that they rang Anthony Marangos , and inspected the house , or rather château , which he had found for them in Picardy , North East France , between the towns of Arras and Amiens . |
18 | He preferred to drink — ignoring the landlord 's porter — from his silver flask , which he had substituted for the broken glass of brandy . |
19 | The Minister of Labour , Ernest Bevin , received a message which he had decoded for him in a Leeds hotel by Albert Heal , a trade union leader who had run a pre-war escape route for German socialists that still had watertight communications . |
20 | Thanks to this shrewd advice the Spanish state , the sole beneficiary of Dali 's will , has inherited 183 paintings and hundreds of drawings , photographs and other objects — besides his house in Portlligat and Pubol castle , which he had bought for his wife Gala . |
21 | Then he went slowly back to within two blocks of home , drove up the back lane and stopped before the old wooden garage which he had rented for so many years from Isobel Dawson . |
22 | He could do nothing but wait while the procedure which he had initiated for excommunicating the king if he refused to restore his rights and revenues crawled towards its conclusion . |
23 | Grey Egerton , describing in 1852 a fossil fish which he had lithographed for the Geological Survey , could take a more cheerful view , calling it a ‘ pretty little specimen ’ . |
24 | His other item of equipment was a heavy iron-tipped walking-stick which he had brought for reassurance . |
25 | The court had heard that Currie had known his victim , a popular ‘ loner ’ in the town , had known the guard dog , Flood , which he had taken for walks , and had known the premises , Rogan 's Indoor Market in central Dumfries , where he had worked . |
26 | Seth 's van , which he had owned for four days , was a write-off . |
27 | His right to govern himself by his own vote , which he had fought for and wrestled from the grip of the landed gentry himself only ten years ago . |
28 | In Slater v. Burnley Corporation ( 1888 ) 59 L.T. 636 the plaintiff sued to recover an overcharge of water rates which he had paid for one quarter , but did not succeed . |
29 | At his trial , Nicolae Ceauşescu simply switched into the public half of the doublethink which he had imbibed for five decades . |
30 | In 1905 he delivered the address in medicine at the BMA annual meeting , and in 1912 became an honorary fellow of the MPA ( from which he had resigned for reasons unknown in 1890 ) . |