Example sentences of "which [verb] him [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was surprise which made him stop for a second . |
| 2 | If it had been later in the season , and the roses in full bloom , he might have missed the portal altogether , but there was just the one unopened bud on the bare branches , of a delicate peach shade with hints of rose which made him think of a girl 's skin . |
| 3 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 4 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 5 | But not dropped , ’ he added with a grin which made him look like the prototype jovial monk . |
| 6 | Bismarck pushed the Dual Monarchy towards Italy — he was momentarily upset by a burst of panslavism which made him worry about a Franco-Russian rapprochement — and the result was the Triple Alliance ( 20 May 1882 ) . |
| 7 | Richard suffers from narcolepsy … a condition of the brain which causes him to fall into a sudden , uncontrolled and spontaneous sleep several times a day . |
| 8 | Berger 's race was ruined by electrically-related gearbox problems , which caused him to start from the pit lane , and then a resultant overheating engine , which caused his retirement after four laps . |
| 9 | Minton 's continuing involvement with the River Thames is also affirmed by his illustrations for John Herbert 's essay , ‘ London 's Port and River ’ , in the book Flower of Cities , published in 1949 , and which allowed him to draw upon a well-developed vocabulary , with freedom and confident mastery . |
| 10 | Guiding his entire policy was a sense of perspective , which allowed him to look beyond the immediate impasse and to visualize a future beyond Algeria . |
| 11 | In order to explain the different findings obtained according to whether the interviewer sat behind or in front of the subjects , Gur ( 1975 ) suggested that when the interviewer sits opposite the subject the latter 's anxiety level is increased which leads him to reply in a characteristic mode of thought . |
| 12 | The Second Great Seal of Richard I , which shows him seated between the Moon and the Sun and bearing the symbols of his sovereignty . |
| 13 | According to the historian Eusebius , when the Emperor Constantine ( c. 280 – 337 ) became a Christian in the early fourth century , his triumph over the enemies of the Church , represented as a dragon , was depicted in a scene at the entrance to the imperial palace which showed him trampling upon the beast . |
| 14 | His body clock free-ran so that on occasions he was the victim of a clash between an internal cause — which thought it was night and wanted him to sleep — and an external cause , society — which required him to work in the ( real ) daytime . |
| 15 | Well educated in Latin , French , German , Flemish , Spanish and Italian as well as in the Gaelic which enabled him to talk to the most suspicious and recalcitrant Highlanders , he gathered about him scholars and artists to add distinction to what soon became not merely the constitutional but also the cultural capital of the north . |
| 16 | It would appear from paragraph ( a ) that a seller who has a monopoly over the supply of the kind of goods in question is unlikely to convince the court of the reasonableness of a wide exemption clause , especially if it was a large demand for the product which enabled him to insist on the clause being in the contract . |
| 17 | Likewise , it was his image of a party united by a scientifically based theory which enabled him to insist upon a steeply hierarchical structure . |
| 18 | It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education . |
| 19 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 20 | In any event , before the disastrous situation which sent him to jail for a short period , I had one other encounter . |
| 21 | Addled by the speed of events which sent him scurrying from The Hague , the erstwhile British ambassador , Sir Neville Bland warned that : |
| 22 | To all complaints about his conduct he made the same answer : he was bound by the decree of 1099 , which obliged him to withdraw from the communion of all who had taken part in ceremonies of investiture or homage . |
| 23 | Stephen Dent has been in a wheel chair since an accident seven years ago , which left him paralysed from the waist down . |
| 24 | For the searcher who goes on and comes to believe , this is the only possible starting point — a sense of need which may range from a mild discomfort to a deep conviction , but which spurs him to look for a solution beyond himself . |