Example sentences of "[prep] which he [vb mod] [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 | These are the not-books for which he must take responsibility . |
| 3 | According to Soviet sources , however , the US side had softened its previous position that Najibullah would have to be removed from power before elections could be held , and was now considering a compromise under which he would remain President but would give up control of the military , the security police and the media to non-partisan bodies . |
| 4 | In this case , the retailer is liable to his buyer , the boy , but now has no contract under which he can recover indemnity . |
| 5 | As I will suggest in chapter eight , the black sportsman sees sport not as a hobby , but as a central life interest , a sphere in which he might find scope for self-expression and a possible avenue out of his mundane , everyday existence . |
| 6 | Joseph was dressed in a formal gray knicker-bocker suit and the Annamese at his side was already wearing the stepped Ming dynasty bonnet , curly-toed boots and embroidered silk gown in which he would pay homage to the emperor of Annam along with hundreds of other mandarins at the annual Tet ceremony . |
| 7 | Near the end of the book , Holden fantasises about his ideal life , in which he would go West , and pretend to be mute . |
| 8 | You , if you are well informed , can then point out that there 's a way in which he can get tax relief on his donations . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The genius of the football supporter is that he has managed to convert something as unappetizing and unpromising as an English football season into something from which he can take pleasure . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nor would it be possible to refer him to any works of literature ( before the present one ) from which he could gain enlightenment . |
| 13 | For , oh , how awful is the seizure of the invisible , last enemy , sitting in triumph over the body , which is all over which he can have power . ’ |
| 14 | erm the capped level is an arbitrary level , taken by the Secretary of State , beyond which he will restrain expenditure in the interests of protecting the charge payer . |
| 15 | But there were never any open words expressing the inflection , never anything to which he could raise objection . |
| 16 | He knew that he still had certain assets on which he could raise cash . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Often Morton had told himself savagely that there would soon be a point at which he would lose interest in the prospect of salvaging them . |
| 19 | He found in its nature the means by which he could impart freshness , immediacy , spontaneity , imagination to his own vision as a writer . |