Example sentences of "which he [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A working compromise was reached only after Barbarossa agreed to hold the Pope 's bridle and stirrup at a formal meeting ; an act of ritual homage which he had at first refused . |
| 2 | Instead the address which he had at last been persuaded to give was in a short and narrow street off the Edgware Road , an enclave of cheap , unsmart cafés chiefly Goan and Greek . |
| 3 | And yet the mundane circumference beyond which he stepped at such times was also necessary to him : it was the circle in which he could stand and be safe . |
| 4 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 5 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 6 | Mr Bland said that the cost of the borrowings was much lower than the cost of the group 's equity , which he estimated at 20 per cent per annum . |
| 7 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 8 | Hopkinson was educated at St Edward 's , Oxford , which he left at 16 for an apprenticeship in his uncle 's engineering firm at Manchester , where he joined the Territorial Army . |
| 9 | He was educated at Babbacombe School , Torquay , which he left at fourteen to join the office of George Bridgeman , an architect in Torquay , to whom he returned after being apprenticed to a quantity surveyor in London . |
| 10 | With the benefit of a later viewpoint , aided not least by the opportunity to reflect on Bolinger 's own work , we would suggest that , in most cases , other answers are more appropriate than the ones which he offered at that time ( nevertheless , we return to this article more than once in the chapters which follow ) . |
| 11 | Unable to find work after leaving the army , which he joined at 16 , he has travelled as far as Holland in search of a job — but to no avail . |
| 12 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
| 13 | He was warned of at least 15 contacts in the Cranfield overhead by the Luton Approach controller and instructed to contact Cranfield by radio which he did at 1227:05 hrs , stating his altitude as 2000 feet . |
| 14 | The evening was warm and calm , but the side-streets through which he wandered at random were almost deserted . |
| 15 | In the Champion Hurdle , which he won at 50-1 and in the Sandeman Hurdle at Liverpool , where at 10-1 he gave weight and a beating to some of the best hurdlers in training , Beech Road established himself as an outstanding champion , and although he did not win the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle on Saturday , he confirmed his position at the top of the tree . |