Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 2 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 3 | Typical of microscopic work might be W. C. Williamson 's work on the formation of bones and teeth in the 1850s , which got him into the Royal Society . |
| 4 | ‘ He was given the title of honorary research assistant but articles began appearing in newspapers which described him as a consultant , ’ says a doctor who knew him . |
| 5 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 6 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 7 | This is a role which provided him with a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 8 | Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment . |
| 9 | The isolation of the village from the outside world was mitigated by the existence of a close-knit village community with which the farm worker could identify and which provided him with the range of institutions and amenities which he then required in order to live the year round . |
| 10 | He intended to join the Indian Civil Service , but while he was at Oxford his father and his only brother died , and he inherited the family estate , which provided him with an income for the rest of his life . |
| 11 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 12 | I lifted the receiver and listened and it must have been the expression on my face which stopped him in the doorway . |
| 13 | Skilled in the art of clock-making , he constructed , in his eightieth year , a detailed and intricate orrery to replace one which displeased him by the ticking of its wheels . |
| 14 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 15 | The Presbyterian ministers who occupied most of the Church 's livings , however , even before his arrival set up a committee to draw up a list of the objectionable features in his works ; their report , which condemned him as a heretic for denying Original Sin , was sent to the King . |
| 16 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 17 | The famous trip to Europe , which Lear had constantly referred to in his letters as if it were an experience which united him with the great ornithologist , became the bitter disappointment of a friendship manqué . |
| 18 | In addition to being a hunchback the painter Toulouse-Lautrec suffered from a condition which endowed him with an oversized penis . |
| 19 | Muffled in furs , Franklin D. Hauser left the complex in a snow buggy which drove him to a helipad a kilometre away . |
| 20 | Whilst on bail awaiting trial , he was served with statements of his co-accused which implicated him to a significant extent . |
| 21 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 22 | Sampras admitted he felt powerless in the face of Ivanisevic 's 13-ace onslaught which consigned him to a 7–6 6–2 defeat . |
| 23 | Then a conceptual emotion was released in him which transmuted what he saw into theory , a recognition of the cerebral nature of an art which transported him beyond the mere explanation of the visible . |
| 24 | Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom . |
| 25 | Chung ran a campaign — widely compared with that of Ross Perot in the US elections — which portrayed him as a political " outsider " with direct economic experience gleaned as the head of a giant commercial concern . |
| 26 | Dostoevsky underwent a spiritual transformation in Siberia which turned him into the greatest of nineteenth-century writers , but Petrashevskii died there and was buried in unconsecrated ground in 1866 . |
| 27 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 28 | The exercise helped to dull the urges of his body , which troubled him during the early morning and the day . |
| 29 | Wood could still play if there is any danger of a recurrence of Simon Brown 's problems with cramp , which troubled him over the weekend , while Simon Hughes is also due for a rest . |
| 30 | He had failed to recover from the structural hip injury which troubled him throughout the World Cup and the date of his return could not be forecast . |