Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you hear a scream ? ’ she asked dulcetly , then blinked at the speed with which he crossed the ground . |
| 2 | Distinguished guests fared only a little better ‘ … a pleasant fiction and cheerful jest of the captain 's … a profoundly preposterous box ’ was how Charles Dickens described his cabin on board the Britannia in which he crossed the Atlantic on his trip to America in 1842 . |
| 3 | The boy 's contemptuous : ‘ No ! ’ was always accepted without comment , and with no attempt at persuasion ; but each night a soft , sidelong , tormenting smile recognised the growing reluctance and diminishing arrogance with which he spat the refusal at his questioner . |
| 4 | Any doubt about his attitude should have been set aside by the speech with which he accepted the leadership : |
| 5 | If the meticulous Davis was the last player one would expect to lose in such a manner , the six-times Masters champion retained his reputation for sportsmanship by the grace with which he accepted the verdict . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman is seeking to disguise the fact that under the Government in which he served the quality of service under the headings that I have just listed was vastly inferior to the quality of service provided under this Government . |
| 7 | Besides publishing pamphlets and organizing petitions , he brought out a short-lived newspaper , the Flying Eagle ( November–December 1652 ) , in which he denounced the abuses of the day . |
| 8 | Hopper held his own in a hard , heavy-hitting first round in which he took the fight to Parsons , even though he took some punishment . |
| 9 | Shortly after arriving in England , he responded to a petition from a number of Puritan ministers by calling a theological conference at Hampton Court Palace , at which he took the chair for a series of debates between his bishops and the representatives of those looking for reform . |
| 10 | He therefore set out to produce a corrected text first of the letters of Paul his hero , then of the gospel of Paul 's companion Luke ( the other gospels being scrapped ) , which he thought the work of Paul himself in its original form . |
| 11 | In the same case , at 427 , Denning LJ ( as he then was ) gave more examples in the following passage and summarised the circumstances in which he thought the court would interfere : |
| 12 | This influences the expectations that the public in Easton have of the police , and of their role in the community — a point which one constable made by explaining that one resident in Easton , upon finding himself locked out of his home , called at the station asking for the duplicate set of keys to his house which he thought the police would routinely possess for the residents ' benefit ; phone calls from the public asking for air and train information also sometimes occur . |
| 13 | New selling aids and point-of-sale material were presented by Michael Saulet , Marketing Director Ralph Ellis , Managing Director , concluded the conference with a review of the trading year in which he re-affirmed the company strategy for the Autumn trading period and laid the foundations for the future . |
| 14 | The Theosophist Geoffrey Hodson gives detailed descriptions of various elemental beings which he had the ability to observe in various natural locations . |
| 15 | Miraculously cured of back pains just before he had joined the NSC , he had joined a charismatic Episcopal congregation , in which he kept the church manners of a Catholic ; and where appeals for the contras were concerned he could take either voice , as necessary . |
| 16 | I was immediately impressed by the breadth and depth of his knowledge of the workings of the natural world , by his own diverse and exceptional achievements , by his incredible work rate and by the wisdom with which he viewed the task ahead . |
| 17 | However , perhaps the most surprising aspect of Lord Cross 's speech is the apparent complacency with which he viewed the implications of his decision as he understood them . |
| 18 | A speaker who asked questions expecting the answer ‘ True ’ sometimes incorporated an elaborated irony by which he attacked the revolution for its failure to uphold principles and policies to which he was , and was known to be , utterly opposed . |
| 19 | Kim Il Sung presented a report in which he deplored the division of Korea , which was itself attributable to the machinations of the Americans . |
| 20 | Then the Duke of Wellington , who made a most interesting speech on imaginative farming and game conservation , in which he deplored the massacre of nearly tame reared pheasants , and said that landowners and farmers should look to quality rather than quantity when shooting pheasants . |
| 21 | The sobs lessened and a hand was extended , into which he pressed the tissue . |
| 22 | Many of its people were farmers too , though several were merchants as well — two drapers , a mercer , a haberdasher and a wax-chandler , and in 1584 Archdeacon Robert Johnson chose it as the location of one of the two grammar schools with which he endowed the county . |
| 23 | He was criticised by some officials for his victory speech in which he thanked the press ‘ from the heart of my bottom ’ . |
| 24 | The captain , Phil Carrick , last month put the cat among the pigeons , or his head upon the block ( depending upon each Yorkshireman 's point of view on his county 's cricket , without which no Tyke is properly dressed ) by writing a letter , with his players ' support , in which he advocated the abandonment of the holy writ , the birth qualification . |
| 25 | Already in 1093 and 1094 , before he received the pallium , he had had two acrimonious disputes about the services which he owed the king as one of the greatest territorial magnates of the kingdom , and it was a third territorial dispute in 1097 which finally made him resolve to leave England . |
| 26 | Karelius had nothing else to go on , besides which he owed the Hapsburgs ' man something for saving his life . |
| 27 | The fact that the Queen was pro-German would have been particularly hurtful to the Emperor personally , for only he had not succumbed to the general enthusiasm for a war he had never wanted and for which he feared the country was ill-prepared . |
| 28 | These meetings were largely an opportunity for Harold Wilson to use me as the wall of a fives court against which he banged the ball . |
| 29 | Corbett entrusted him with a short letter in which he asked the King to supply simple answers to what Corbett considered simple questions . |
| 30 | Artai 's name was the sole nomination , and instead of a proposing speech by one of the Khans there was a reading by a court secretary of the portion of Nogai 's will in which he expressed the wish that Artai should succeed him . |