Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Unrepentant , Palmer shifted his ground to an attack on the format of the Annual Estimates of Nigeria , which he developed into a campaign for the complete decentralization of the Treasury Department . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | On Thursday night — late night shopping — Nails went down to the supermarket in his anorak with the big pockets and lifted six electric plugs , four pairs of scissors and a pair of pillowcases which he sold to a friend of his father 's for three pounds . |
| 5 | Abel had his workshop on the first and second floors of the tall house and made intricate jewellery which he sold to a shop in Hatton Garden . |
| 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 | Gosse 's career was interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1914 , in which he served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps . |
| 11 | After World War I ( in which he served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps , stationed in Maidstone ) Freeman increasingly became involved in the eugenics movement , producing a lengthy work on the ills of society , Social Decay and Regeneration , in 1921 . |
| 12 | His move into intelligence came during the Second World War in which he served as a colonel and worked with Eisenhower 's Supreme Allied Headquarters . |
| 13 | After World War N , during which he served in the army with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers , he was attached to the War Office . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Or — a thought struck him — was it in the water from which he drank at the reading lectern ? |
| 17 | Singling out The Forest and the Fire , which he laid on the pillow ready , he left the rest in a pile on the floor . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Parkin sipped some beer , leaving a crest of foam on his upper lip , which he wiped with the edge of his hand . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He still has a 30-years-old Courtelle suit which he kept as a standby for the MBE investiture just in case something happened to his morning dress . |
| 24 | He had hijacked a proportion of the Unit 's budget to buy a sensory-deprivation tank which he kept in a basement of the hospital . |
| 25 | The papers to which he had referred , and which he kept in a tin box underneath his bed , contained an unexpected coda to this small adventure — an unfortunate little postscript which reminded me how Captain Scott must have felt when he reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Erm , many of you will also have seen Jean-Claude at previous meetings which he attended in the capacity as to Michel . |
| 28 | Not finding any , he brought back a group of modern realist pictures which he mounted as a selling exhibition , together with a loan show of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian pictures . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But Mancini is here guilty of reading back into Edward IV 's reign the tensions which he observed after the king 's death . |