Example sentences of "which [verb] he [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The court heard Bedworth , now a student at Edinburgh University studying artificial intelligence , spent hours sitting in his bedroom mastering a £200 Christmas present which helped him hack into hi-tech systems . |
2 | He was requested by Prime Minister James Callaghan to head a commission that looked into the future of the engineering profession in Britain , which kept him occupied for two and a half years . |
3 | It was the Metropolitan Makarii who nurtured Ivan the Terrible 's hugely inflated notion of his office , and who prepared the dramatic ceremony which saw him crowned in 1547 not as mere Grand Prince but as unfettered ‘ Tsar ’ ( derived from ‘ Caesar ’ ) . |
4 | Spencer failed to retain his card this year after his debut season on the Volvo European Tour which saw him finish in 178th position in the Order of Merit with winnings of just £7,700 . |
5 | A settled domestic life with two year-old Daniel and the lovely former actress Suzanne Danielle provided the supremely talented Scot with a secure and solid base from which to plan his survival from decline which saw him slump to 51st in the 1988 Order of Merit . |
6 | Any adaptation in a male which enables him to copulate with more females will be strongly favoured by natural selection . |
7 | Pupils can sometimes be diffident in expressing their anxieties about their visual condition and may be greatly helped if they can talk to someone knowledgeable and experienced in such matters who is unlikely to be surprised by incidents which can be a worry to some youngsters , such as , for instance , a glass eye lost in the swimming pool or the effect of strong light on a photophobic ( averse to glare ) pupil which makes him sit with closed eyes . |