Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] him [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No buts , ’ said the man and without warning gave Charlie a shove in the chest which propelled him back into the street . |
| 2 | He staged a counter-attack which brought him back into power in 1769 , but at the price of a financial disaster from which he never recovered ; money was borrowed to buy shares with which to create votes for the election of directors at a time when the value of the Company 's stock collapsed . |
| 3 | A change in the tax rules affecting pensions was shortly followed by a job with the Department of Environment 's Property Services Agency , a post which carries him through to March and may see him stay until he is 70 . |
| 4 | Information about a person 's private and personal affairs may be of a nature which shows him up in a favourable light and would by no means expose him to criticism . |
| 5 | It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ . |
| 6 | The midfield star trained alone — sprinting , jogging , twisting and turning to answer claims that the tackle which put him out of the game would mean another lengthy lay-off , almost 17 months after he wrecked his right knee in the FA Cup final . |
| 7 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 8 | He doubled over , unable to help himself , only to be immediately uprighted by another punch which rocked him back on his heels . |
| 9 | Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 10 | Following Liberty Vallance he suffered a heart attack which forced him out of movies and into a career as a composer and painter , in the way that many Hollywood tough guys conceal a private sensitivity . |
| 11 | It was only the dream of winning the world championship which brought him back to Williams … |
| 12 | As vassal of St Denis , Louis enjoyed special spiritual favour which marked him out from those whose lord was a mere mortal . |
| 13 | Earlier this week , Salako had surgery in the US on the same knee which kept him out for most of last season and Palace are set to demand the FA pay his wages until he is fit again . |
| 14 | The idea of service is extended to include the work that the manager does when he leaves his office , and it is this devotion to duty which marks him off from all the others . |
| 15 | He had a bleeper in his house which wakes him up for every call though for insurance reasons he can not join the men . |
| 16 | Angus Fraser is still feeling discomfort from the hip injury which kept him out for most of last season and may have to play in pain if he is to resume his first-class career . |
| 17 | LUTON v ASTON VILLA Nielsen , Villa 's Danish defender , will start for the first time if McGrath fails to recover from the hamstring injury which kept him out of the Republic of Ireland team in midweek . |
| 18 | ANDERS NIELSEN , the national champion , showed no sign of the back injury which kept him out of the team event as he eased into today 's men 's singles quarter-finals at the Pilkington Glass European Badminton Championships in Glasgow . |
| 19 | Apart from Gatting , who is seen as a near-certainty for England 's winder tour of India , others who may come back into the international reckoning are Chris Broad , Alan Wells , Matthew Maynard and John Emburey , while Neil Foster ( another South African tourist ) might have been considered for the winter tour but for a knee injury which kept him out of the Essex side for the last part of the season . |
| 20 | Agassi was seeing a specialist in Seattle in a bid to beat the injury which kept him out of the French Open . |