Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 2 | Another social problem which concerned him was the lack of housing both for the poor and for the tourists . |
| 3 | But it was the possibility of attack from ships which concerned him most ; and he proposed that he and Moray make a survey , by boat , to consider what , if anything , might be done protectively . |
| 4 | It was the eponymity which concerned him . |
| 5 | I knew he was so incensed he could n't control himself ; I could n't blame him for the fury which inhabited him . |
| 6 | Fanny drives with his usual relish , turning the wheel with exaggerated movements and indulging one of his favourite habits , which involves him sporadically singing the chorus of some great Woodstockesque opus . |
| 7 | One friend said that , in later life , Eliot could never bear to mention Vivien 's named and another has written of his feelings of " guilt and horror , which haunted him daily " and how once he observed , " I can never forget anything " . |
| 8 | Also , I have found Mr Hauser has a Lear jet which flies him across the world plus a Sikorsky helicopter which I saw taking off from the grounds of Livingstone Manor . |
| 9 | He 'd made his fortune selling baths , bidets and toilets , which lent him little by way of mystique . |
| 10 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 11 | Okay , so they 've other P H I benefit , that must come off of the equation , because we , otherwise we 'll be paying it as well as another insurance company , which mean he 'll be better off financially , by being off work sick , yes . |
| 12 | But although Darwinian natural selection seems plainly to deny primacy either to egoism or to altruism , it is interesting to notice that nearly everyone has preconceptions which hinder him from coming fully to terms with the evidence . |
| 13 | In Basrah , Baghdad and wherever Shiite communities were to be found , the streets were festooned with black banners lettered in white , announcing the name of a new ‘ martyr ’ and at which front he had fallen . |
| 14 | For Marx , the peasant represented a conservative force because of his structural position in society , which separates him from those who might share his class interests . |
| 15 | While the double-blind trial is well suited to testing of conventional drugs it often can not be applied to complementary therapies , for instance , the acupuncturist must establish a close link with the patient during treatment , and the therapist must know which points he is needling and possibly modify them as the patient 's responses change . |
| 16 | All the traffic , every single vehicle which passed him was equipped with lasers in its axles ; they could register a hit on his legs unless he was above them , or shielded by a wall , or between the wheels of a parked car , or holding his breath . |
| 17 | The English-speaking world , which reveres him quite as much as does Iberia , knows him as Ferdinand Magellan . |
| 18 | The invaders assembled at Stornoway were now divided by a bitter quarrel over whether or not they should move on to the mainland , only ended when one of the Earl Marischal 's supposed subordinates , William Murray , Marquis of Tullibardine , suddenly produced a commission granted to him two years before by James which appointed him Commander-in-Chief of all his forces in Scotland . |
| 19 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 20 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 21 | He had a passionate interest in music and opera which led him to design several operatic sets . |
| 22 | In the case of the Asiatic mode of production the source of the information which led him to introduce this new type of society is well documented . |
| 23 | Dr Simpson found that the spectrum 's shape changed at an energy about 17 keV below that of the most energetic electrons emitted by tritium , which led him to suggest that there might be an extra component to beta decay . |
| 24 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 25 | His mother says that he talked to her about it and she tried to convince him that he was misinterpreting what he had seen and heard , but as far as I can learn John never mentioned it to anyone else until late in life , when telling Dr Schäfer about the thoughts which led him to make his ballet Spuren . |
| 26 | He found fewer of these traits in women , which led him to assert that women are ‘ congenitally less inclined to crime than men ’ . |
| 27 | In Joan Wake 's book The Brudenells of Deene one reads that ‘ not the least of John , Duke of Montagu 's many attractive qualities was a love for animals , which led him to maintain a hospital for sick dogs at his house in Ditton Park in Buckinghamshire ’ . |
| 28 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 29 | Like artists of the earlier wars , Keane was frustrated by his dependence on the forces , their movements , their security and their unalloyed , albeit good-natured , company , which led him to be protected from real military action and from the indigenous civilian population of Iraq . |
| 30 | It was in the course of his translation work that he received in 1790 the stimulus which led him to his radical rethink of medical treatment . |