Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] he [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And also after his reconciliation with Miss Havisham , for whom he gets hurt in the process of trying to save her from the fire and also because of how he wants so much to help Herbert . |
| 2 | His desk is rimmed with pictures of prominent people — a senator , a Saudi prince , an ambassador — patients for whom he has retarded death by cancer . |
| 3 | The only clients for whom he has little or no sympathy are psychopaths ( ‘ a real bugbear ’ ) : he believes they waste volunteers ' time and can not be helped . |
| 4 | This is a rare opportunity to listen to Tavernier 's ideas about film and about the relationship between European and American cinema , a subject about which he has strong views . |
| 5 | Assuming that there is a perfect capital market , so that the individual can borrow or lend freely at an interest rate r ( about which he has confident expectations ) , a person 's expected lifetime discounted income is measured by , where W u and M u are expected wage income and capital receipts at time u , and P u denotes the survival probability . |
| 6 | A much less demanding condition is one in which the saboteur is attempting to damage a plant about which he has little or no technical knowledge . |
| 7 | The male guppy , a small South American fish , has a pair of fins on his underside modified into a gun-like tube through which he fires small bullets of sperm at the female 's genital opening . |
| 8 | Goody , then , sees the activities of Pythagoras and his followers as quite different from the flowering of logic , scientific clarity , lack of ambiguity , scepticism etc. for which he praises classical Greece . |
| 9 | Lastly , there is his first ‘ model ’ of agriculture , with its paupers , ruthless exploitation etc. , of which he says pre-revolutionary Russia was an example . |
| 10 | The values of ‘ objectivity ’ , ‘ taste ’ and French ‘ clarté ’ , which Picard claims to uphold , and in the name of which he defends traditional academic criticism , are ultimately political . |
| 11 | In France they have devised a logical system whereby senior officials of the Bureau d'Enquête d'Accident are formally recognised by the magistrate as officials of his court , thereby relieving the magistrate himself of much responsibility relating to highly technical matters of which he has little comprehension while at the same time enabling the professional investigators immediate access to the wreckage of the aircraft and its records , etc. in their pursuit of the cause of the accident . |
| 12 | Golding ) , he was , I agree , referring to a new phenomenon of which he has personal experience . |
| 13 | Let's hope the pessimism of the last edition is firmly left behind — perhaps with Edward Pearce — and that thinkers like Stuart Hall spend less time applauding the Tories and much more time helping to rid us of what he calls this ‘ nightmare ’ . |
| 14 | The jongleur is left to watch over some souls , but is approached by St Peter , with whom he plays two different games of dice , gambling for the souls . |
| 15 | Additionally , he 's been working with Left Hand Right Hand , who 've just toured the States , while his other musical activities have seen him involved with British Racing Green and Danielle Dax , with whom he plays bass from time to time . |
| 16 | Although regretting the need for such prosecutions , may I congratulate him on the vigour with which he prosecutes those who peddle such odious doctrines ? |
| 17 | ‘ I 've got one like that , ’ says Chris , who keeps a toy revolver under the bed , with which he fires red caps at the television . |
| 18 | The bitterness with which he attacks pastoral poetry implies a sense of loss : ‘ 'T IS all a gloomy , melancholy Scene , / Fit only to provoke the Muses ' Spleen ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's got a rather grand name but we simply call him Billy , ’ said dad , who would n't let go of his famous foam mallet with which he bashes kiddy guests on his long-running TV-am show , Wacaday . |
| 20 | With the admirable thoroughness with which he approaches each role , Dustin took a crash course in Italian . |
| 21 | Adorno has another small category , that of ‘ folklorist modernism ’ , into which he fits such composers as Bartók and Janáĉek . |
| 22 | In this way the haulier spends as little time as possible on the matter and is free to get on with what he does best — haulage . |
| 23 | First of all he contrasts representative democracy with what he calls enlightened despotism which is really something like places guardianship . |
| 24 | He works with local Contractors whose work is to a high standard , and in whom he has full confidence . |
| 25 | London representative of a firm of Swiss vintners , from whom he embezzles some money . |
| 26 | This is the manner in which he justifies legal intervention . |
| 27 | One way in which he does that he thinks is by plural voting , that you give the educated more than one vote , he says we have to make sure the educated do n't form their own class with their own class interests , but , but giving the educated a bigger say will lead us to make better decisions he thinks . |
| 28 | He carries a Star Wars lunch-box in which he keeps old tube tickets , cigarettes , make-up and money . |
| 29 | ‘ Way of life ’ we have used to symbolise the familiar , the comfortable , a social world that appears to the actor as natural , without mystery or artifice , in which he feels confident , competent , at home . |
| 30 | There are plenty of floating plants for the male to build a nest in , and a cave in which he spends most of his time . |