Example sentences of "which he [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Bradshaw , who died in December at the age of 77 , was probably as well known for the manner in which he failed to win the 1949 Open as his considerable success elsewhere . |
| 2 | Rogers was thinking about a cricket match in which he had made a good score , reliving the running between the wickets as he bucketed about between the shell-bursts . |
| 3 | He had , in fact , long cherished a secret fantasy in which he had joined the privileged ranks of Oxford undergraduates , racketed through three glorious years of academic and sexual triumphs , then gone on to lead the kind of effortlessly successful life from which working-class origins and a foreshortened education had in reality excluded him . |
| 4 | Playing for the New Zealand Barbarians in a 23–13 win over a strong Public School Wanderers side , Botha ended a superb personal display in soaking conditions with his shorts as pristine white as when he had started the game , during which he had given a cultured demonstration of the arts of reading the game and tactical kicking . |
| 5 | For in 1920 , when Binyon began work towards his version of the Inferno , he exchanged letters with Hewlett , who had translated the first canto years before , and now urged Binyon to shorten his measure to tetrameters , pointing out that this was what he himself had done in his ‘ Song of the Plough ’ , a long poem in terza rima in which he had invested a great deal . |
| 6 | Last year he was invited to hold an exhibition of his work at Urbino , in central Italy , at the house once owned by the Renaissance painter Raphael , which he had visited a few years before . |
| 7 | On the other hand he would have a much enlarged Aquitaine , to be held in sovereignty , the ‘ perpetual liberty ’ which he had instructed the Black Prince to demand of his royal prisoner in 1357 , and which would remove at a stroke the threat of confiscation . |
| 8 | Sharpe remembered the familiar skill with which he had killed the French Lieutenant in this very rye field . |
| 9 | He scrutinized the documents as if they were a puzzle picture in which he had to spot the deliberate mistakes . |
| 10 | He spent most of August in Worcestershire and September at Aix , which he had discovered the previous summer . |
| 11 | His long episcopate , during which he had reconstructed the Catholic Church in the west of Scotland , ended with his death in Glasgow 27 March 1902 . |
| 12 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 13 | After the closed meeting , military sources reported that Yeltsin had informed them of 90 per cent pay rises which he had ordered the previous week . |
| 14 | He then opened discussions with Universal , a company in which he had taken a 25 per cent stake back in 1935 , whereby Rank 's smaller films would be packaged with the pictures of an independent US production company , and sold in a block to exhibitors . |
| 15 | He had exhibited work every year since 1847 , and had given about three of a series of lectures on mediaeval architecture to students at the Academy , which he had started the previous year . |
| 16 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 17 | Certainly Wordsworth is not consistent in the terminology which he uses to name the non-human ‘ Presences ’ : the 1798–9 version seems animistic , with its references to ‘ Beings of the hills ’ , ‘ Powers of earth ’ , ‘ Genii of the springs ’ and so on . |
| 18 | Vasulka has developed visually compelling techniques , which he uses to create an electronic opera based on 20th century history . |
| 19 | After two hours of fishing Peter hooked a large eel which he felt had an excellent chance of winning the £100 prize . |
| 20 | Karpov also claimed that the Soviet Ministry of Nuclear Power , which he said had a vested interest in obscuring the facts , had exercised undue influence over the parameters of the study . |
| 21 | MR ASHDOWN blamed his party 's disappointing showing on an 11th-hour migration of voters to the Tories , which he said demonstrated the long-term ‘ unelectability ’ of Labour . |
| 22 | MR ASHDOWN blamed his party 's disappointing showing on an 11th-hour migration of voters to the Tories , which he said demonstrated the long-term ‘ unelectability ’ of Labour . |
| 23 | His grandfather 's picture lay in his grandma 's album , two from the end , showing his grandfather wearing his lordship 's livery , in which he 'd driven the old Baron to the coronation of King George VI in 1937 . |
| 24 | He was all for England 's democracy and against any form of union with Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man , for which he seemed to have a particular dislike as " a nucleus of Celtic imagery " . |
| 25 | Personal delight and considerable sensitivity is evident in his work ; whether the delicate pencil studies of his middle years or , later , in his watercolours in which he seemed to find a new kind of inner freedom . |
| 26 | He was president of the Newcastle Chemical Society ( 1871–2 ) and a vice-president until 1882 , when it became the Newcastle section of the Society of Chemical Industry , in which he continued to take an active interest . |
| 27 | The only part of the United States in which he seems to take a consistent interest is Brooklyn . |
| 28 | Mr. Beazley also relied on the general statements of principle in paragraphs 9 and 10 of the Peters case [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 quoted above , which he submitted echoed the general principles laid down in the Gubisch case [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 ; these are important principles , to which full weight must be given , but they can not in my judgment warrant the court placing a construction on the words of article 5(1) which they can not reasonably bear , and moreover they must be balanced against another general principle , laid down for example in Kalfelis v. Bankhaus Schrôder , Mûnchmeyer , Hengst and Co . |
| 29 | But the excuse which he gave had a genuine ring about it : he could not afford to go , for none would serve in his retinue unless he rewarded them with revenues from his own lands , which would entail a loss of status ( ‘ grant abesement de mon estat ’ ) which the king would not wish . |
| 30 | B AGEHOT 'S phrase comes in a passage in which he appears to propound the dispiriting theory that a politician , if he wants to get anywhere , must appeal to ‘ the average man ’ . |