Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had recovered himself he looked up the narrow lane and saw a young boy racing into the distance , the white straw hat clutched in one hand and waving at his side as his arms pumped the air with the effort of running . |
| 2 | What had come through was not quite a complete Terry Place , but one substantially still himself He remained in the intensive care unit of the local hospital and under police guard . |
| 3 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 4 | IN OUR SECOND disturbing dispatch [ Apocalypse Now — Now , page 110 ] , novelist Christopher Hope reports from suburban Johannesburg , which he describes as the wall-building capital of the world . |
| 5 | He believes that under these conditions of choice , which he describes as the original position , there is only one set of principles which can be rationally chosen to govern a society enjoying favourable social and economic conditions . |
| 6 | There will be no hasty purchases , as Tony is determined to keep a focus on the chain 's niche market , which he describes as the top end of the traditional ale market . |
| 7 | His position — the position , indeed , to which he clung throughout the long controversy — is made clear in his reply to the Staufer and in the early letters of the register . |
| 8 | His education had been interrupted by the war of 1914–18 , in which he served on the western front as an officer in the 8th battalion of the East Surrey Regiment . |
| 9 | Did that , he was asked in the House of Commons , mean that he had been out of sympathy with the policies of the Government in which he served in the '80s ? |
| 10 | Born in 1924 , his ambitions were delayed by the outbreak of the second world war in which he served in the Royal Naval Reserve from 1943 , first in Coastal Forces and then on minesweepers , rising to the rank of lieutenant before being demobilised three years later . |
| 11 | Basic to it is a distinction , which he took from the English philosopher John Stuart Mill ( 1806–73 ) , between ‘ natural science ’ and ‘ moral science ’ , which he rendered in German as Naturwissenschaft and Geisteswissenschaft respectively . |
| 12 | He described three miasms ( syphilis , sycosis and psora ) which he related to the venereal diseases ( syphilis and gonorrhoea ) and the skin itch ( akin to psoriasis ) respectively . |
| 13 | His goal was to discover a way of reconciling mechanism and science with the harmony which he perceived in the natural world , and with a life of individual creative freedom . |
| 14 | My father has a flat , which he uses during the parliamentary session . |
| 15 | His relationship with David also was a good one , in which he benefited from the older man 's advice and experience . |
| 16 | But the political solutions which he advocated in the 1930s were not so . |
| 17 | In his Latin work Incendium Amoris ( The Fire of Love ) Rolle talks of it as kindling for the " fire which consumes everything which is dark " ( Prologue.4 ) , an element which he recognises as the final reality . |
| 18 | Between the weapons were the mounted heads of the victims , mainly gazelle and ibex which he hunted in the eastern desert . |
| 19 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 20 | By the time the news reached Lyons , Anselm would have been Hugh 's guest for about six months , and the letter which he wrote to the new pope shows a remarkable advance on the letter he had written to Urban II two years earlier . |
| 21 | In the letter of resignation which he conveyed to the Constitutional Council on Jan. 11 , Chadli revealed that he had dissolved ( on Jan. 4 as it later transpired ) by presidential decree the National Popular Assembly . |
| 22 | As this year 's BBC Reith Lecturer , it is precisely this lack of cultural cross-fertilisation ( and its origins ) which he expounds as the major obstacle to a fully united Europe . |
| 23 | Eliot , though , is determined , like the anthropological writers he had been reading , to make plain the root of the custom , which he does in the next line , ‘ And flowers of deflowered maids ’ . |
| 24 | the individual … will fully capitalise the future tax payments where the debt is created , and he will write down the capital value of the income-earning assets which he owns by the present value of these future tax payments . |
| 25 | Eyvør woke up and made food-begging noises , so the Birdman finished his story and cut up some more strips of herring which he fed to the little bird . |
| 26 | William Graffunder , an expatriate German and the promoter of an organisation in Cardiff which he registered as the Amalgamated Seamen 's and Tradesmen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland in September 1890 , likewise made no bones about its connection with the Shipping Federation in the supply of " free labour " , though he denied being its official . |
| 27 | He returned to public life in 1989 during the " velvet revolution " and was elected Speaker of the federal parliament in December 1989 , a post which he held until the June 1992 elections , which he contested as the leading candidate of the small Social Democratic Party in Slovakia [ see p. 38944 ] . |
| 28 | In August 1971 , the same year in which he married for the second time , Canetti 's brother , Georg , was dying . |
| 29 | A more integrated approach to the environment has also been preferred by Coates who during the 1970s , which he characterized as the Environmental Decade , edited a volume ( Coates , 1971 ) on Environmental Geomorphology , which was defined as : |
| 30 | When he looked back upon his short time at the Choir School of King 's College , it was the meeting with Milner-White which he saw as the memorable gift from the school . |