Example sentences of "[prep] which he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led to imprisonment after which he sought greater freedom in America . |
| 2 | He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh , after which he spent two years learning commerce with a London agency house . |
| 3 | In 1868 he began a two-year novitiate at Manresa House , Roehampton , after which he spent three years as seminarian at St Mary 's , Stonyhurst . |
| 4 | This last statement should be noticed — he disliked assemblies and places where speeches were made at length and he did not enjoy being a chairman — but he made this single exception , the Convocation of York ; he always gave a presidential address , about which he took much trouble . |
| 5 | In 1891 Salt published a pamphlet on Humanitarianism , a subject on which he frequently lectured , since it embraced all those matters about which he held strong opinions . |
| 6 | This is a rare opportunity to listen to Tavernier 's ideas about film and about the relationship between European and American cinema , a subject about which he has strong views . |
| 7 | Assuming that there is a perfect capital market , so that the individual can borrow or lend freely at an interest rate r ( about which he has confident expectations ) , a person 's expected lifetime discounted income is measured by , where W u and M u are expected wage income and capital receipts at time u , and P u denotes the survival probability . |
| 8 | Once there he held a much-publicised news conference during which he ridiculed American intelligence and claimed he had been held in captivity by the CIA . |
| 9 | Jack Smith remembers one lecture Minton gave during which he made riveting use of a hip flask , saying ‘ Excuse me one minute ’ as he drank from it . |
| 10 | George helped the Palace to gain promotion from Division Four in his first season at Selhurst Park , during which he made full appearances for us , and he continued as a first-team regular under Dick Graham , to become one of only two men to appear in both the 1961 and 1964 promotion sides . |
| 11 | Pawar began a four-day official visit to the USA on April 8 during which he met key US officials including Defence Secretary Richard Cheney . |
| 12 | Ken was effectively a bishop for some five years , during which he showed great zeal for the teaching of the Catechism and the relief of the poor . |
| 13 | He was prominent in the Co-operative Movement and Party over many years , during which he held various offices . |
| 14 | Soviet President Gorbachev made a historic four-day visit to Japan on April 16-19 , during which he held several sessions of talks with Kaifu . |
| 15 | Jugnauth paid a nine-day visit to India in January 1990 , during which he invited Indian industrialists and investors to increase their presence in Mauritius . |
| 16 | Thankfully , as he demonstrated at the weekend — during which he claimed 91 points from nine tries and 23 conversions — they happen . |
| 17 | The male guppy , a small South American fish , has a pair of fins on his underside modified into a gun-like tube through which he fires small bullets of sperm at the female 's genital opening . |
| 18 | He established a dummy Swiss company , Lake Resources Inc , through which he laundered vast sums of cash from shady middlemen and arms dealers , right-wing American bigots , and the enormous profits out of the arms ' shipments to the Iranians , who had paid twice the going rate for what they bought . |
| 19 | Back in Ireland he continued with his duties at the Society for which he made mineralogical tours of Galway and Mayo ( 1825 ) , Donegal ( 1826 ) , Antrim , Down , and Londonderry ( 1828 ) , and Londonderry and Tyrone ( 1829 ) . |
| 20 | There are also biographical details from the author 's life , especially the accidental shooting of his own wife in 1951 , for which he spent 13 days in a Mexican jail . |
| 21 | E7.93 The European Environmental Bureau : To note that the Director was nominated as the UK EEB members ' representative to an EEB conference on coastal protection development held in Denmark on 1st & 2nd May for which he received European Commission funding . |
| 22 | In late 1925 he was one of twelve leading communists arrested and tried on charges of sedition and incitement to mutiny , for which he received twelve months ' imprisonment . |
| 23 | My Lords , this is an appeal brought by the Director of Public Prosecutions with the leave of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1334 from a decision of that court on 22 April 1991 allowing the appeal of the respondent defendant , Edwin Gomez , against his convictions on 20 and 24 April 1990 at Isleworth Crown Court on two counts of theft , for which he received concurrent sentences of two years ' imprisonment , and quashing those convictions . |
| 24 | His outstanding contribution was to the Dictionary of National Biography , for which he wrote 778 biographies covering the period from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries . |
| 25 | The would-be assassins missed their prey , and Phar Lap , unperturbed by the incident , duly won the Stakes and then ran one of his most brilliant races to lift the Cup , for which he carried nine stone twelve pounds and started at 11–8 on , the shortest-priced favourite in the history of the race . |
| 26 | He appeared regularly in the shop , invariably walking out with yet another purchase for which he had scant use . |
| 27 | Also in 1893 he undertook the restoration of St Peter 's Church , West Knighton , the only restoration for which he had sole responsibility , at a time when he was writing Jude the Obscure . |
| 28 | In place of God-consciousness , for which he had little time , he wanted to put on the one hand the revelation made in Jesus and recoverable through the historical study of the New Testament , and on the other the moral and spiritual response to Jesus which issues in Christian living and acting . |
| 29 | These attacks included sexually assaulting an elderly woman during a burglary ; heterosexual rape ; rape of women when their husbands , brothers or boyfriends were watching ; homosexual rape ( for which he got five times as long a prison sentence as for heterosexual rape ) ; as well as burglary . |
| 30 | Violence was the only crime for which he found any link with unemployment . |