Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the possibility of attack from ships which concerned him most ; and he proposed that he and Moray make a survey , by boat , to consider what , if anything , might be done protectively . |
| 2 | After the lesson he told me that he wanted to buy a really good shirt he 'd seen somewhere , and I enquired into the resale potential of the item with a view to recovering my outlay in case of bankruptcy , which amused him further ; and then I gave him my terms . |
| 3 | He explained that part of his treatment was a steroid which made him hyperactive and sweaty , and cursed the fact that he could n't keep still . |
| 4 | He and Ranulf were ignored , which made him uneasy . |
| 5 | John Henry was retired in July 1985 after a racing career over eight seasons which made him one of the most popular horses ever to run in the USA . |
| 6 | Subsequently , continuing on occasion to work in partnership with his brother , he developed a business which made him one of the most successful of such craft-based figures in English history . |
| 7 | In its asides — quite apart from what he tells us about Milton — we see what it was about Lewis which struck W. T. Kirkpatrick as so remarkable , and which made him such a valued teacher and friend to so many people in the course of his life . |
| 8 | And the trauma had caused personality changes which made him irritable and difficult to live with . |
| 9 | However , this effect may not last , and long-term follow-up is useful to ensure that the patient does not lapse into those unhealthy ways which made him unwell in the first place . |
| 10 | The presence of McCoist , the aerial prowess of McPherson and the reliable defending of McLaren , which made him outstanding against Italy in Scotland 's last match , would all be of assistance in extending Malta 's poor record . |
| 11 | In a blistering attack on ‘ The Football Madness ’ in 1898 , Ernest Ensor was particularly shocked by the epidemic of excitement among the fans : ‘ A constant attendant at great football matches must have seen more than once a large crowd vertere pollicem in a manner which made him thankful that murder is illegal . ’ |
| 12 | She shot him a glance which made him sorry for asking . |
| 13 | Assuming he was in trouble , he stopped to give him a lift … but the attacker threatened him with an iron bar and forced him to take tablets which made him unconscious . |
| 14 | He usually ate too much at meals , which made him ill . |
| 15 | Rusty Conway becomes one of Serena 's patients because he has had a spell of extreme absent-mindedness which made him incapable of carrying out his work . |
| 16 | Not the way he had loved his gentle Adelaide , to whom he had been devoted , but with a lust which made him ashamed . |
| 17 | The little man had two attributes which made him valuable . |
| 18 | Burton travelled to observe and communicate , which made him different from most explorers of the day , but he too could be touched by the inexplicable fever of travel : ‘ … some thousand miles up a river with an infinitesimal prospect of returning ! |
| 19 | But the important quality about Dick Crossman , which made him unique among Members of Parliament and made his testament to the understanding of British Government unique , is that he was the pure , 100 per cent archetypal don , a don through and through , albeit a don whose special subject was politics in practice . |
| 20 | Sometimes he thought it was of his own making : he was unaccustomed to working closely with women and this one was still young and attractive which made him self-conscious . |
| 21 | He miscalculated badly , forgetting the Tsar 's pride , which made him unyielding in his claim to be protector of the Greek Christians , and the reaction of the Sultan , who was weary of being pressured by the Powers and who feared for the security of his Empire . |
| 22 | William Thaw , the first to get a commission , had owned a hydroplane while still at Yale , which made him acceptable as a French bomber pilot . |
| 23 | Robert Forbes pulled out before his partners were indicted , a manoeuvre which cost him all the accumulated wealth of Lorna Lewis 's golden days . |
| 24 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 25 | Being adequately provided for , he was able to book himself into a downtown hotel which cost him three dollars per night , though he often failed to make it back to the hotel , finding the cosmopolitan and nocturnal life of the town there entirely to his liking : consecration dismantled ! |
| 26 | Jamie ran up a quadruple-bogey 8 of which cost him thousands of pounds . |
| 27 | He is serving a 20-year sentence imposed in 1988 by a military court which found him guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 28 | Opponents of Meciar in Public Against Violence ( PAV , the senior partner in the ruling coalition ) , which he had effectively split in March by forming a separate minority faction [ see p. 38106 ] , had allied with the CDM in arranging a parliamentary investigation into Meciar 's recent conduct , which found him guilty of incompetence , lying , and abusing his access to former secret police files . |
| 29 | Jones is not challenging the verdict of the FA commission , which found him guilty of bringing the game into disrepute , but he hopes for a reduction in the heaviest punishment ever imposed on an individual player . |
| 30 | Wilfrid 's failure to secure a sympathetic hearing suggests that it was not only Oswiu 's family which found him unpalatable . |