Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is this which he takes as the key to an understanding of contemporary society , and of culture itself .
2 There are poems to Rosa which he takes from the trash .
3 Following the Emperor 's address , Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu read a congratulatory statement on behalf of the Japanese people in which he appealed for the construction of a country which was energetic , culturally rich and dedicated to the promotion of international peace and co-operation .
4 This proposition forms the basis of Stenhouse 's concept of the ‘ teacher-as-researcher ’ : an idea which he developed in the context of the Humanities Curriculum Project ( HCP ) , and which has since influenced approaches to curriculum development and curriculum evaluation ( especially teacher self-evaluation ) .
5 First is the excitement of the sense of calling ; second , the passionate and painful struggles in overcoming sin which bring him into a darkness which initially is without savour or delight ; third , the experience of light and comfort in the darkness which he describes as the work of Christ illuminating the soul " with schynynges " ( 27.98r. – 345 ) ; and fourth , the full light and bliss of heaven which this light in the darkness anticipates .
6 The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals .
7 He had some notable furniture and possessions , most of which he sold with the house when he moved into The Milebrook .
8 The Milan court held Mr de Benedetti had profited unfairly by receiving a £20m share package in an Ambrosiano subsidiary , as well as the 2 p.c. share value in the bank which he sold at the end of his tenure .
9 Goodridge was simultaneously an active member of the BDDA , which he served on the executive , as Treasurer of the pension fund and as a Vice-chairman before being awarded a medal of honour in 1977 .
10 After World War N , during which he served in the army with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers , he was attached to the War Office .
11 In ‘ The Fall of the House of Usher ’ , Edgar Allan Poe invokes the fear of being shut in which he projects into the fear of SPEAKING IN DIFFERENT TONGUES , DIFFERENT TONES 67 shutting someone else in .
12 Lee , startled to see Philip , moved and the helmet which he had on the back of his head fell off on to the flagged floor .
13 MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ .
14 Or — a thought struck him — was it in the water from which he drank at the reading lectern ?
15 Singling out The Forest and the Fire , which he laid on the pillow ready , he left the rest in a pile on the floor .
16 Doone pondered , made up his mind , went out to his car and returned carrying a five-foot plank which he laid across the kitchen table .
17 Various depressed minions started to trickle in and just after seven-thirty , a man in a chef 's hat arrived through the doors that led to the kitchens , carrying an enormous silver tray which he laid in the centre of the table .
18 John Bryan had already produced a paper called Open City in San Francisco , but Art Kunkin , a former Trotskyist , decided to put together a semi-spoof , semi-newspaper , the Faire Free Press , which he hawked at the Faire .
19 Parkin sipped some beer , leaving a crest of foam on his upper lip , which he wiped with the edge of his hand .
20 Guitarist Mr Brook , who was a Redcar reporter for The Northern Echo in 1967 , lives in the multi-coloured Leyland wagon in which he travels round the country .
21 Their small mission accomplished , Tennyson and Hallam sank back to being tourists , and Tennyson never forgot the scenery around Cauterets , which he associated for the rest of his long life with the happiness he had felt when travelling there with the beloved but now dead Hallam .
22 The conservation corps of the YTS were clearing a nearby churchyard , and every lunchtime , the foreman pulled out an armchair which he kept in the church specially for the purpose , and had an hour 's sleep in the churchyard .
23 Erm , many of you will also have seen Jean-Claude at previous meetings which he attended in the capacity as to Michel .
24 Unexpectedly three of the seven items are of Mozart-an early little sonata which he magicks into the status of masterpiece , as well as the late B minor Adagio and Rondo in D. The best-known of Schubert 's Moments Musicaux , the little F minor , is given a chirpily personal reading , before he tackles three Liszt pieces , the Fantasy based on Schubert 's Serenade as well as the Valses-Caprices nos 6 and 7 .
25 In a combative book , The Art of Cézanne , he expounded a theory of rhythm in art which he advanced as the key to Cézanne 's success .
26 There was an interesting article in The Sunday Telegraph on 1 December by Mr. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard , in which he speaks about the devastation in Vukovar and what has been happening in Croatia .
27 But Mancini is here guilty of reading back into Edward IV 's reign the tensions which he observed after the king 's death .
28 But Mancini is here guilty of reading back into Edward IV 's reign the tensions which he observed after the king 's death .
29 The tyrant Primo de Rivera loved circuses , and loved big cigars , which he smoked during the performance , though it was forbidden .
30 NHS At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , was loudly cheered on producing a long computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ costing £3bn , which he unrolled over the rostrum for the benefit of photographers from newspapers which had criticised the Tories ' record on the NHS .
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