Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was a quiet wistfulness about her , a reticence , a grace which reminded him of one of Leonardo 's Madonnas . |
| 32 | In truth , one can remember once , in the professional 's shop at Augusta , finding the great Gary Player thoughtfully fingering a set of Cleveland woods which reminded him of some Ben Hogan woods he had once owned . |
| 33 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 34 | In retirement Leslie launched the Oswestry Festival of Village Choirs , which absorbed him for some years until underfunding brought it to an end . |
| 35 | Greenidge and Lloyd top-scored as West Indies declared at 251 for 9 , and then Holding , Roberts and Holder , restricted MCC to 197 , only Gilliat , the captain , having a substantial knock , and Amiss ducking into a bouncer which left him with four stitches in his scalp . |
| 36 | A DARLINGTON man was yesterday recovering in hospital after a Good Friday attack which left him with broken bones in his face . |
| 37 | Mark Roe was altogether more scathing about the problem after a first round of 85 which left him in last place in the field . |
| 38 | Lanfranc , who had a practical mind , had foreseen this need when he was still prior of Bec , and had put together a collection of Canon Law , which stood him in good stead as archbishop . |
| 39 | But what attracted him above all else to the magazine illustrators was their subject matter . |
| 40 | If it is then asked what drove him to this desperate end , Zande will refer you to the particular tensions and stresses of his life . |
| 41 | But what irritated him above all was the jumble of loose ends he would be obliged to leave behind , just at the moment when he was beginning to see how to unravel them . |
| 42 | None the less , his fall from favour and loss of revenue farms and offices under the restored Commonwealth of 1659 may have been what stood him in best stead in the following year , rather than secret payments to the Royalist cause before May 1660 , for which there is no evidence beyond inference . |