Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By his own account , after much expenditure of charcoal and years of failure , he discovered a powder through which he made a successful projection of sufficient gold to pay off his creditors . |
| 2 | But what is peculiar to the doctor is that the successful action , the save , is seen to be brought about through the use of the esoteric skills for which he trained and which , by and large , remain untested and unused . |
| 3 | He appeared regularly in the shop , invariably walking out with yet another purchase for which he had scant use . |
| 4 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 5 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 6 | So he obtained the job , unfortunately at the cost of giving himself a hernia for which he needed hospital treatment . |
| 7 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
| 8 | American fast food family contrasting with a British gastronomic club in a strange black comedy , a genre for which he has a growing reputation . |
| 9 | Since then he has dedicated his life to his practice in Calcutta where he now only sees the most difficult cases , particularly those with organic pathology for which he finds the 50 millesimal potencies especially appropriate . |
| 10 | Then he gave way and agreed to remain Prime Minister , an eminence for which he professed no enthusiasm . |
| 11 | I agree with all that he said — the same problems exist in my constituency and I am sure that many hon. Members will join me in supporting the action for which he has called . |
| 12 | Even in his adopted country Jones failed to receive the command for which he had hoped , but , returning to Europe , did succeed in becoming Kontradmiral Pavel Ivanovich Jones , in the Russian navy . |
| 13 | I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week . |
| 14 | In 1981 Surridge became a genial and hearty president of the club for which he had taken 464 wickets ( 29.64 ) and 360 catches ( 58 in 1952 and 56 in 1955 ) and scored 3697 runs ( 13.02 ) . |
| 15 | By the time she reached the shorter flight of stairs on the half-landing , Frankie had retreated all the way to his room and closed the door behind him , leaving only the smallest gap through which he peered with one eye . |
| 16 | It jerked against the safety-chain , leaving a narrow gap through which he scrambled to safety . |
| 17 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
| 18 | Griffith 's breakthrough came almost accidentally as he attempted to forge a career in a new industry about which he knew little . |
| 19 | The plaintiff claimed damages for negligence on the part of BRB due to the disrepair of the fence through which he had passed . |
| 20 | Worried that the Colonel might leap into army talk for which he had neither the preparation nor the inclination , Hope let flow a hand and beckoned in all about them . |
| 21 | Violence was the only crime for which he found any link with unemployment . |
| 22 | Then it was gone , tail vanishing under the bushes through which he had crawled . |
| 23 | For the next thirty-five years he published a spate of pamphlets and books on the subjects about which he felt strongly and the authors whom he admired deeply or disagreed with emphatically . |
| 24 | Dexter let his eyes wander over the crates on the floor , brimming with files and books , and on to a dusty azalea on the window-sill for which he sensed a twinge of sadness . |
| 25 | Throughout his dealings with the cannabis in Sweden Price was , as he explained , answerable to the applicant ; and he described in detail his conversations with the applicant during which he received instructions from him . |
| 26 | This result could have been spelled out more clearly in the statutes but it seems to me to follow from the provisions of the statutes as they stand and , contrary to the argument of Mr. Page , to be no more curious than the alternative for which he contends . |
| 27 | She was shivering slightly but perceptibly , not from cold and not from fear , but with the vibration of some personal and secret tension about which he had , as yet , no right to ask . |
| 28 | It was like seeing the lock for which he had carried around the key , year after ignorant year . |
| 29 | He qualified as an electronics engineer before going to teachers ' training college after which he obtained a degree in art history . |
| 30 | Davie Jess , a well known wag , entertained his mates with a flood of stories , many of which , as he said later , John Robertson , a man known to have a fine voice was asked to sing a song ; the only songs of which he knew the words were all hymns and soon rescuers gathered in the control room on the surface heard a strong , clear rendering of The Old Rugged Cross coming to them over the internal telephone system , with more than 100 trapped miners joining in the chorus . |