Example sentences of "[prep] which he could [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a lens through which he could view life , literature , and history , often with mischievous irony . |
| 2 | If only he could come across a barn in which he could seek refuge from the full force of the gale … but visibility was limited to a few strides . |
| 3 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 4 | Nor would it be possible to refer him to any works of literature ( before the present one ) from which he could gain enlightenment . |
| 5 | But there were never any open words expressing the inflection , never anything to which he could raise objection . |
| 6 | He knew that he still had certain assets on which he could raise cash . |
| 7 | Sixty years later , in a yet more striking case , the newly arrived Russian ambassador to Denmark , finding that the king , Christian V , was in bed and too ill to receive him , insisted on having another bed provided on which he could lie side by side with the king so that they could talk . |
| 8 | He found in its nature the means by which he could impart freshness , immediacy , spontaneity , imagination to his own vision as a writer . |