Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His relationship with David also was a good one , in which he benefited from the older man 's advice and experience . |
| 9 | But the political solutions which he advocated in the 1930s were not so . |
| 10 | Between the weapons were the mounted heads of the victims , mainly gazelle and ibex which he hunted in the eastern desert . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | In August 1971 , the same year in which he married for the second time , Canetti 's brother , Georg , was dying . |
| 18 | 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 : |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When 1951 ended he could justifiably let rip in more frivolous fashion on ‘ Huntin' , Shootin' and Fishin' ’ decorations for the Chelsea Arts Ball at which he saw in the new year . |
| 21 | His company , National Airways which he ran in the early 1980s provided great adventure too . |
| 22 | I bet myself he had professional ‘ On Tow ’ plates in the truck and he had , along with a seemingly authentic ‘ Police Aware ’ sticker which he stuck on the rear windscreen . |
| 23 | Now sixty years old , failing in health , and without papal backing , Winchelsey was unlikely to present the new king with the problems which he offered to the old one , but he did not hesitate to support the barons against Gaveston . |
| 24 | Whilst I would commend you to study the German Staff Paper in its entirety , I would also draw your attention to its personal citation of AVM Bennett , and note the dateline March — 1944 : " This 35-year-old Australian — known as one of the most resourceful officers in the RAF — had distinguished himself as long ago as 1938 by a record long-range flight to South Africa … an example of his personal operational capabilities … may be cited in the attack which he made of the German Fleet base at Trondheim . " |
| 25 | Everything else might be changed by the demands of story and of ratiocination — there are clear differences , for instance , between the accounts of that scene in the 1925 poem ‘ Light as Leaf on Lindentree ’ and in Aragorn 's song on Weathertop — but to the vision itself he remained true , working out from it as from the detailed paintings of Lake Mithrim , Nargothrond , Gondolin , etc. , which he made in the 1920s ( see Pictures 32–6 ) . |
| 26 | Watching his total absorption in the service and the way in which he hung upon the holy words , Owen could not help feeling a moment of doubt . |
| 27 | His visit , during which he apologised for the French role in the Rainbow Warrior affair , marked a considerable improvement in bilateral relations [ see p. 38153 ; but see also p. 38345 for New Zealand condemnation of the honouring of the French agent involved in the Rainbow Warrior affair ] . |
| 28 | It is ironic to reflect that had he served the Luftwaffe in a similar role to that which he graced in the Royal Air Force , there can be little doubt that he would have been invested with the highest order of the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross — with Diamonds , Swords and Oakleaves . |
| 29 | He recalled Blaney 's pallid and innocuous watercolours of the better-known beauty spots of Norfolk : Blakeney , St Peter Mancroft and the cathedral at Norwich , which he produced for the local shops . |
| 30 | David Damiani 's father Jean owned olive groves , extensive properties in Jaffa , Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and a soap factory which he operated inside the old Turkish serail on the hill above Jaffa not far from St Peter 's church . |