Example sentences of "which [vb past] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 2 | Typical of microscopic work might be W. C. Williamson 's work on the formation of bones and teeth in the 1850s , which got him into the Royal Society . |
| 3 | This is a role which provided him with a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 4 | Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment . |
| 5 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 6 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 7 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 8 | The famous trip to Europe , which Lear had constantly referred to in his letters as if it were an experience which united him with the great ornithologist , became the bitter disappointment of a friendship manqué . |
| 9 | In addition to being a hunchback the painter Toulouse-Lautrec suffered from a condition which endowed him with an oversized penis . |
| 10 | Whilst on bail awaiting trial , he was served with statements of his co-accused which implicated him to a significant extent . |
| 11 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 12 | Sampras admitted he felt powerless in the face of Ivanisevic 's 13-ace onslaught which consigned him to a 7–6 6–2 defeat . |
| 13 | Then a conceptual emotion was released in him which transmuted what he saw into theory , a recognition of the cerebral nature of an art which transported him beyond the mere explanation of the visible . |
| 14 | Chung ran a campaign — widely compared with that of Ross Perot in the US elections — which portrayed him as a political " outsider " with direct economic experience gleaned as the head of a giant commercial concern . |
| 15 | Dostoevsky underwent a spiritual transformation in Siberia which turned him into the greatest of nineteenth-century writers , but Petrashevskii died there and was buried in unconsecrated ground in 1866 . |
| 16 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 17 | The exercise helped to dull the urges of his body , which troubled him during the early morning and the day . |
| 18 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were mysteriously , elusively compounded of plumed candle flame , drumming rain , a ship held by ice , huddled sheep , and a malignant shadow stooped-muttering over a desk or table or bench in a room or a cell he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 19 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were elusively compounded of dank , dripping trees , dazzling headlights , stairways , huddled sheep , a ship held by ice mast-high , and a sick man with skin blotched with words gibbering upon a bed in a room in a house he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 20 | To wit : Syrett , beautiful but doomed , cut his hand on a wine glass at a party and , after ignoring his doctor 's advice to avoid climbing , did irreparable damage to his tendons which started him on a tightening spiral of alcoholism and eventual suicide . |
| 21 | It was this radar-like scanning of the night around him , which warned him of a new impending danger . |
| 22 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
| 23 | Then he received an offer to appear in Return from the River Kwai , which took him to the steaming jungles of the Philippines . |
| 24 | Tony , on the Leicester right , started it five yards from his own line with a brilliant burst which took him over the half-way line . |
| 25 | He persuaded Reid 's wife , actress Dorothy Davenport , to sign Wally 's commitment papers which put him into a private sanatorium . |
| 26 | Despite the much vaunted heating and ventilating system of the new police headquarters the windows of Wycliffe 's office were almost obscured by condensation and the air had a clammy warmth which reminded him of the tropical house at Kew . |
| 27 | He was a good artist , and he was certainly a competent amateur astronomer , sending several observations of comets and of the planet Uranus to the Gentleman 's Magazine and to the American Philosophical Society , which enrolled him as a foreign member in 1787 . |
| 28 | Pilot Stephen Grey was unhurt apart from a minor neck injury which hospitalised him for a short period . |
| 29 | Unfortunately he suffered damage to a knee which left him with a permanent slight limp . |
| 30 | To his increasing embarrassment , Montrose found himself bombarded with solicitations from three directions , which left him in an impossible situation . |