Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We still refer to certain compounds as being ‘ hermetically sealed ’ , in reference to the touch of his magic caduceus which he latterly bestowed upon AESCULAPIUS , the god of healing . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring . |
| 3 | Chancellor Kohl said that Germany would remain a " nation of friendship for foreigners " but stressed that the right of asylum should not be abused , a point which he again emphasized on Oct. 13 when he described those who attacked foreigners as " fools and criminals " bringing shame on Germany . |
| 4 | His departure was thought to improve the ruling Social Credit Party 's prospects ( from which he also resigned as leader ) , with an election due in 1991 , of withstanding the challenge of Canada 's increasingly successful social democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP — for its September 1990 provincial election victory in Ontario see p. 37705 ) . |
| 5 | Scotland , which he also claimed as part of his sphere of primatial authority , was cut off by the barrier of the province of York . |
| 6 | He got into the habit of coming down into our cell and asking an endless string of questions on vocabulary , which he normally directed at Terry . |
| 7 | Each Saturday morning Eric would fly to Udine from Rome in one of the Desert Air Force bombers , in which he nearly froze to death , then hitch a lift from there to Verona — the huge Fiat was not part of the service . |
| 8 | As he reached his door he found his thoughts turning once more to the urgent problem of putting food in his belly , and a part of his mind registered with pleasure that these thoughts were at last supplanting the ones in which he alternately pined for Aset and visited unholy vengeance upon her . |
| 9 | It was at the capture of Mantes that William the Conqueror fell from his horse and received the injury from which he later died in Rouen . |
| 10 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |
| 11 | It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope . |
| 12 | Braque had submitted some paintings to the Salon d'Automne in 1908 ( a few of the same paintings which he later showed at Kahnweiler 's ) , and Matisse , who was on the jury , is also said to have described these works as being composed of ‘ petits cubes ’ . |
| 13 | Eliot may have experienced displeasure at racial mixing in After Strange Gods , which he later withdrew from print as ‘ a bad book ’ , but it was no coincidence that in the same year as the performance of The Rock he defended Frazer , but attacked Ezra Pound 's favourite , Leo Frobenius , whose anthropological doctrines of racial purity he found particularly distasteful . |
| 14 | Hoggart said that Saffron Walden was surely the current wife of Brian Walden , a joke which he later attributed to James Fenton . |
| 15 | Portsmouth striker Clarke fired his way into the history books with his 13th goal for the Irish to finally beat the all-time best of 12 , which he previously shared with Gerry Armstrong , Joe Bambrick and Billy Gillespie . |
| 16 | His intellectual grasp of issues and the vicious wit which he frequently deployed against opponents enhanced his political reputation but tended to engender respect rather than affection . |
| 17 | He refused to compromise in any way and , throughout his long association with the club , only mastered two words in English , both of which he frequently practised on referees . |
| 18 | In the midst of fraught domestic politics and Anglo-papal aggravations , Bubwith was twice translated in reshuffles in 1407 , first to Salisbury ( which he never visited as bishop ) and then to Bath and Wells , not unwillingly . |
| 19 | There was none of the carelessness with which he usually waited for Twomey to bring him his glass . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , in the Office of Works he was in 1727 appropriately appointed to the new post of clerk of the works at the White Lodge , doubtless through the influence of Herbert ; while in 1734 he was made master carpenter to the Board of Ordnance , a lucrative preferment which he undoubtedly owed to John Campbell , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v. ] , who was then master-general of the Ordnance . |
| 21 | Rather he asserted and tried to use effectively in the 1760s and 1770s powers which he undoubtedly possessed in theory but which under his predecessors had begun to be whittled away in practice . |
| 22 | His first impressions of England were his contemporaries ' upper-class accents , which he initially took for caricatures , and the vast post-war housing estates , unlike anything in his native land . |
| 23 | At the end of the day , they presented David with a complete baseball outfit , padded shoulders , football helmet , which he proudly brought to school the following day . |
| 24 | The broadcast was in reply to an Aug. 21 message from Mubarak in which he publicly appealed to Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait and thereby " save mankind from a destructive war which will leave a scorched earth " . |
| 25 | He amalgamated parts of human bodies to create a ‘ monster ’ , which he then brought to life . |
| 26 | His great love was chemistry , which he then studied at Heidelberg and Marburg . |
| 27 | Five minutes had now passed since the capture , and Ulysse left the site with the upper half of the monkey , which he then shared with Brutus . |
| 28 | The isolation of the village from the outside world was mitigated by the existence of a close-knit village community with which the farm worker could identify and which provided him with the range of institutions and amenities which he then required in order to live the year round . |
| 29 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |
| 30 | Now it was worth five times what he paid for it , a fact on which he often dwelt with satisfaction . |