Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , I have found Mr Hauser has a Lear jet which flies him across the world plus a Sikorsky helicopter which I saw taking off from the grounds of Livingstone Manor . |
| 2 | Alternatively , a person may place himself in a dangerous position which exposes him to the risk of involvement in the accident in which he is harmed . |
| 3 | The visitor of the last stanza comes ‘ more violent , more profound , / One soul , disdainful or disdained , ’ and in the condition of the year-spirit or , ‘ his shadowed beauty stained / The colour of the withered year ’ , to go to a death which places him in the position of savage sacrifice and , for he is surely related to the saints of Eliot 's other early poems , martyr ‘ Self-immolating on the Mound ’ . |
| 4 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 5 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I lifted the receiver and listened and it must have been the expression on my face which stopped him in the doorway . |
| 8 | Skilled in the art of clock-making , he constructed , in his eightieth year , a detailed and intricate orrery to replace one which displeased him by the ticking of its wheels . |
| 9 | Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom . |
| 10 | Wood could still play if there is any danger of a recurrence of Simon Brown 's problems with cramp , which troubled him over the weekend , while Simon Hughes is also due for a rest . |
| 11 | He had failed to recover from the structural hip injury which troubled him throughout the World Cup and the date of his return could not be forecast . |
| 12 | This was Il Giasone ( 1649 ) which shows him at the height of his powers in the melodious aria with violin imitations ( e.g. Jason 's ‘ Delizie contente ’ , Act I , SC.2 ) , in drama ( e.g. Medea 's conjuration , Act I , sc . |
| 13 | He had been to Sweden in 1911 and Norway in 1913 , experiences which encouraged him in the use of a looser technique and a thicker impasto . |
| 14 | Earlier , Aindow told the court that he was hit on the left thigh by the side of the car , which knocked him into the side of road and possibly on to the kerb . |
| 15 | She expects him to be an untidy swimmer , but is irritated to find that he has a smooth powerful crawl which takes him through the water swiftly and seriously . |
| 16 | Wholly in the spirit of that imagery is his vision of the Baal Shem 's butterfly — so much like a kite ! — which followed him down the hill . |
| 17 | At the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1902 , he won the premier literary award ( the chair ) for an ode composed in the traditional strict metres on ‘ Ymadawiad Arthur ’ ( The Passing of Arthur ) which established him as the precursor of a new era in Welsh literature . |
| 18 | This produced a flood of letters to Downing Street , which were kept from Baldwin during his long holiday , but which hit him with the force of a tidal wave on his return . |
| 19 | April 1 , Bath : Mr Major was struck by a single egg , which hit him on the shoulder and neck . |
| 20 | He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon . |
| 21 | ARMY veteran Tom Clarkson had a special date yesterday with part of a bomb which hit him in the head during World War Two . |
| 22 | The dragon homed in on Olybrius ' wrath , which called him across the continent . |
| 23 | He had clipped up his shirtsleeves with steel bracelets above the elbow and was swathed in a coarse apron which had once been white and which covered him from the knot of his tie to his ankles . |
| 24 | She watched him dive , slicing into the water like a knife , and then continue in a powerful crawl which took him towards the centre of the lake . |
| 25 | Pearce pauses for reflection when asked to define the qualities which took him to the top with such apparent ease . |
| 26 | One of the best known names in football has been teaching a group of schoolchildren some of the skills which took him to the top of the game . |
| 27 | In 1894 he was awarded a London county council scholarship with distinctions , which took him to the Kenmont Gardens Science School ( 1894–7 ) and in 1896 he was awarded an evening exhibition to the Regent Street Polytechnic . |
| 28 | He walked back by a different route which took him along the waterfront . |
| 29 | The rule that delivery and payment are concurrent conditions ties in with the unpaid seller 's lien ( see Chapter 12 ) which entitles him in the absence of contrary agreement to retain the goods until payment . |
| 30 | Quite clearly he was torn between his desire to excuse himself from further cross-examination and his obedience to the protocol which kept him in the presence of a member of the Royal Family until he was dismissed . |