Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After what he did to THE FACE , I do n't see why you should have a picture of him in the magazine . |
| 2 | Then came the meeting with the woman whom he was to marry , a meeting about which he writes in the same book . |
| 3 | After World War N , during which he served in the army with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers , he was attached to the War Office . |
| 4 | His visit , during which he apologised for the French role in the Rainbow Warrior affair , marked a considerable improvement in bilateral relations [ see p. 38153 ; but see also p. 38345 for New Zealand condemnation of the honouring of the French agent involved in the Rainbow Warrior affair ] . |
| 5 | In an address to the nation on July 25 , during which he spoke of the need for a " fresh start " after the upheavals of June [ see p. 37523 ] , President Kenneth Kaunda pardoned Lt. Mwamba Luchembe and his colleagues who were behind the June 30 announcement of an Army takeover , and announced the release of all other political prisoners . |
| 6 | He established a considerable empire through central Europe , in the course of which he conferred on the Abbot of St Gall the right of market holding , coinage and excise . |
| 7 | From boyhood Roberts displayed a brilliant and self-tutored mathematical brain and a rapacious appetite for radio knowledge , much of which he absorbed from the journal Wireless World and in public libraries . |
| 8 | He had some notable furniture and possessions , most of which he sold with the house when he moved into The Milebrook . |
| 9 | All a buyer gets to see are the sample boxes opened on the trading floor , on the strength of which he negotiates with the merchant . |
| 10 | No indication is given of what he meant by the ‘ educational situation ’ , and there is no evidence that he undertook any systematic comparison of the educational quality of the two schools . |
| 11 | In their extreme forms the ‘ techniques ’ school would have it that an actor 's performance is detached from his own feelings during performance , that he represents a distillation of what he understands of the character 's feelings ; the Stanislavkian actor , on the other hand , becomes emotionally involved as he performs his role . |
| 12 | Another important aspect of Marx 's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states . |
| 13 | He now had reasons beyond his own inclinations to support Israel because of what he saw as the growing global challenge by the Soviet Union , most immediately felt in Vietnam . |
| 14 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 15 | He had difficulty in persuading colleagues of what he saw as the benefits of the method : |
| 16 | Much of what he says about the roads and tracks depicted there is perceptive and useful , but even Professor Hoskins is wrong in the attribution of many of them . |
| 17 | Nizan is clearly dismissive of what he considers as the ill-informed and frankly false perceptions of the USSR based on liberal prejudices : " I am not impressed by accounts of a " new " bourgeoisie . |
| 18 | In an entertaining and revealing note which prefaces this recording , the clarinettist Murray Khouri laments the passing of what he describes as the ‘ lyric ’ school of British clarinet playing , the origins of which , he suggests , may be traced to the vocal traditions of our great cathedrals . |
| 19 | The Hon. Gentleman must give more careful thought to the detail of what he describes as the " opting-out schemes " . |
| 20 | All these groups can think that Mr Clinton is their man because of what he said during the mesmerising presidential campaign of 1992 . |
| 21 | In response to his anxiety , perhaps he will send me quotations of what he said during the period of the last Labour Government when 30,980 jobs were lost in the mining industry in Wales . |
| 22 | He 's been quick to make capital out of what he regards as the A N C's incomplete suspension . |
| 23 | Only these little bits of bogus power enable him to think he is in control of what he sees as the correct father-son relationship . |
| 24 | it is a clear statement of what he sees as the group 's essential mission — to construct and operate a customer-driven enterprise . |
| 25 | He is critical not only of what he views as the aesthetic escapism of modernism , but also of the crude and facile schematisation of Stalinist socialist realism . |
| 26 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |
| 27 | President Chissano was critical of what he described as the MNR 's " delaying tactics " . |
| 28 | Habash stated that the PFLP 's decision was a result of what he described as the " erroneous political line " being pursued by the PLO leadership in accepting conditions set by the United States for the formation of a Palestinian delegation to the Madrid conference . |
| 29 | Mr Hall 's comments came in the wake of what he described as the ‘ sham consultation ’ by Mersey regional health bosses on trust status . |
| 30 | Albert 's purpose in writing his book , published in the original French two years ago , was to warn a developing European Community against what he saw as the growing dominance of the American way of capitalism . |