Example sentences of "which he [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cuthbertson became noted for his glass-plate frictional electrical machines ; a technology which he took with him from London but which he developed to a high state of perfection in Holland . |
| 2 | Mr Martin comes to Edinburgh from Basil Blackwell , which he developed from a small family business with sales of under £1 million into a major international publishing group with a turnover of more than £14 million . |
| 3 | Richard Roberts seized the opportunity to contract with landowners for the purchase of their wood and furze crop , which he sold at a handsome profit to the tinners . |
| 4 | Back home in Hamilton Su'a scored club centuries and had a big reputation as a hitter , which he justified to a wider audience by hitting 30 of his 36 not out in boundaries , once despatching Tufnell over midwicket into the stand . |
| 5 | Simpson was to emerge as the leading architect of the city , which he stocked with a fine series of public buildings , distinguished not only by his skill in seizing town-planning initiatives but also by the splendour imparted by their finely jointed and polished granite masonry . |
| 6 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |
| 7 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 8 | The prince listened intently as British Korean war veteran Sam Mercer described the battle in which he fought as a 21-year-old private with the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1951 . |
| 9 | Just another bloody journalist , a dilettante with a ragbag mind , who thought that because he had a smattering of scientific language , which he produced with a glib assurance that made George want to choke him , he was qualified to question him , a serious scientist with an intellectual grasp that Gerrard could never understand , let alone achieve . |
| 10 | Stern , who is known for his sometimes brash self-promotion , anchored a television documentary series in the early 1980s , in which he attempted in a Bronowski-like way to explain the ascent of architecture in America . |
| 11 | The book was never written and his only publications were two pamphlets , A Guide to the Electors of Great Britain , upon the Accession of a new King ( 1820 ) and Letters of Lord John Russell , upon the original formation of the House of Commons ( 1826 ) in which he declared for a thorough reform of the close boroughs he had always represented . |
| 12 | In an interview in the Middle East Economic Digest ( MEED ) of April 29 , the Secretary-General of the GCC , Abdullah Yacoub Bishara ( Kuwait ) , had stressed the GCC 's emerging alliance with Egypt and Syria which he described as a new " six-plus-two grouping " . |
| 13 | I understand the feeling within his party that has given rise to some of the security recommendations which he conferred on my hon. Friend the Minister of State last week , and which he described as a root-and-branch policy . |
| 14 | ( Berkeley was familiar with perspective machines , one of which he described in a later work . ) |
| 15 | A special visitor to the seminar will be Mr. R.A. Gailey , Director of the Ulster Transport Museum who will read a paper on ‘ The Rise and Fall of the Railways ’ and will include a slide show of the well known interpretive exhibition of Irish Railway Development currently running at the Museum which includes Dargan 's own saloon coach which he used as a mobile drawing office . |
| 16 | Bicker doctored the hurts of the horses with some strong-smelling salve which he gouged from a small wooden box and smeared on their wounds . |
| 17 | But last Thursday he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene . |
| 18 | Last Thursday , however , he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre-left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene . |
| 19 | Langton realized her impatience and ushered them out of the office towards another door , which he opened with a heavy key he took from his pocket . |
| 20 | Throughout his control of the Elmswell estate Best also kept a memorandum book , in which he recorded in a haphazard fashion things he wished to remember : the wages agreed with servants ; debts owed and owing ; the number of sheep in the shepherd 's care . |
| 21 | Nehmad maintained a high profile throughout the session , keeping his eye firmly on the currency board and bidding on a number of other lots including Maria-Helena Vieira da Silva 's ‘ La Ville Fermee ’ ( lot 320a , est. £60,000–80,000 ) which he lost to a French dealer for £62,000 . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman then referred to housing , which he regarded as a depressing story . |
| 23 | Six years ago , the drawer ( said Mr Jansen ) happened to contain DM40,000-50,000 ( $15,000-32,000 ) of his own money , which he gave to a Christian Democratic aide as a thank-you for tipping off the Social Democrats about a dirty-tricks campaign against them . |
| 24 | I noted a new aspect to Niki at the end of I975 , which he concluded with a fine victory at Watkins Glen . |
| 25 | George whipped the trousers off the table and placed them on a hanger which he attached to a wooden creel . |
| 26 | When Ken thereupon resigned , however , William appealed to him to remain , which he did for a further year . |
| 27 | Lord Newport asked Richard to teach in his place , which he did for a few months . |
| 28 | In 1858–9 he was in the service of the Admiralty , before returning to south Wales , where for ten years he was engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Sirhowy Tramroad , which he converted into a standard railway . |
| 29 | There are several such comments in the sermon which he preached to a national council apparently in 1008 , and which became the law codes V and VI Æthelred . |
| 30 | In 1892 he bought the Pall Mall Gazette , a Liberal evening daily newspaper which he turned into a Conservative organ . |