Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] which he [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assumption is based on religious writings , which in their turn are probably based on the primitive beliefs which early man formulated in pursuance of that almost uncontrollable urge to find something beyond himself to which he could ascribe the origins of the many mysterious things around him . |
| 2 | Yet when he seeks refuge in history , other men 's deeds and words , Gerontion finds nothing with which he can connect , only vacancy , vanity , and inane deception : the emptiness of the uninspiring , fragment-bearing wind that blows through much of Eliot 's poetry . |
| 3 | It was everything for which he could have asked . |
| 4 | This respect for Eliot and the desire to do something of which he would approve , was further manifested in the Maritains ' wish that I should visit Bergson . |
| 5 | There is , I am glad to say , no direct allusion to the activities in which you engage in the Koran or in the Hadith of the prophet , although from what I know of the blessed Muhammad — may God rest him and grant him peace — it is not something of which he would approve . |
| 6 | The genius of the football supporter is that he has managed to convert something as unappetizing and unpromising as an English football season into something from which he can take pleasure . |
| 7 | A local authority may not cause the child to be brought up in any religious persuasion other than the one in which he would have been brought up if the order had not been made ( s33(6) ( a ) ) . |
| 8 | But there were never any open words expressing the inflection , never anything to which he could raise objection . |