Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other five Israelis escaped , but one , Yair Yitzhaki , was again abducted by another JKLF group which eventually released him to a group of journalists on July 3 . |
| 2 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 3 | She was a girl , which greatly predisposed him towards her . |
| 4 | Coleridge was to speak and write on many occasions of the ‘ visions of childhood ’ which so filled him during his London school-days . |
| 5 | Sometimes the author 's identity is given away by some small detail reflecting a habit of expression or thought , and this seems to confirm that each writer has a linguistic " thumbprint " an individual combination of linguistic habits which somehow betrays him in all that he writes . |
| 6 | Those words stroked a node of madness within him which somehow detached him from his excruciation so that he flew above it fleetingly before sinking back into molten anguish . |
| 7 | After a hesitant start , the other leftwing and progressive parties who were defeated in the first round have joined Mr Da Silva 's campaign , along with the Socialist and Communist parties , which already supported him in the Popular Front coalition . |
| 8 | Her father 's habitual mild-manneredness , which usually protected him from responding , became brittle and porous when he was in contact with his daughter : Miranda could see that he reacted to Xanthe 's silkiness as if she were n't a clear , sparkling water , but a fiery solvent that he , for all his well-preened feathers , could not resist . |
| 9 | He makes good progress until he reaches the cornice , which promptly rejects him in a cascade of cold , powdery ice . |
| 10 | He may be forced to act in a certain way out of moral considerations which still involves him in feelings of guilt and remorse . |
| 11 | Here they are reinvoked to discredit Wilde , yet in a way which still acknowledged him as a threat . |
| 12 | Man , by contrast , has the potential to make this ability subject to conscious control , and it is this very difference which clearly divides him from the animal world . |
| 13 | His parents , brother and sister emigrated to the United States when he was a youngster and he was brought up by his grandmother , and it was only the lack of cricket in America which later deterred him from joining them . |
| 14 | Seeing the mist that deepened the dark grey of her eyes , the pale translucent cheeks , both so beautiful now in their glowing copper setting , it was all Benedict could do not to snatch her back into the heat of his embrace , and force his way to that intimate deep caress , the thought of which now fired him with passionate yearning . |
| 15 | In a nonsense poem addressed to Virginia Woolf he described himself as " upper-middle " , a class distinction which immediately associated him with the kind of solid and respectable Englishmen amongst whom he passed his business life and to whom he went for — to use one of the characteristic words — " convivial " social life . |
| 16 | Scots-born ( in Elgin ) , educated at Aberdeen University , qualifying as a CA , then joining Alcan Aluminium , he realised his experience and qualifications were ‘ quite narrow ’ and so headed off to Manchester Business School and an MBA which then took him into international consultancy with McKinsey . |
| 17 | On the other hand the tasks of counselling are also regarded as specialised activities which potentially bring him into competition with social workers , nurses , marriage guidance counsellors , psychologists and psychiatrists . |
| 18 | Elizabeth gave him a push , which almost toppled him to the ground ! |
| 19 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
| 20 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |
| 21 | What right has he in me , but such as a thief may plead to stolen goods ? |
| 22 | What finally propelled him from his Cabinet seat on 9 January was the promulgation of a new and improvised Cabinet convention by Mrs Thatcher — that all future ministerial statements on the future of Westland would have to be cleared by the Cabinet Office . |
| 23 | While the removal of individual rivals unquestionably smoothed Franco 's path to power , what really launched him upon it was the role allotted to him in the rising and the manner in which this role was played out . |
| 24 | They drank for a moment before Jordan returned to what really worried him about his boss 's handling of the case . |