Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Pearce pauses for reflection when asked to define the qualities which took him to the top with such apparent ease . |
| 4 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 5 | He is blessed , though , with large hands which assisted him with the amount of spin he could impart on a cricket ball . |