Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | Even in his mid-seventies , Finniston is showing no sign of flagging in his boundless energy or in the missionary zeal with which he preaches the gospel that a healthy industrial economy is in the best interests of society as a whole . |
| 3 | ( E ) The conference nominates his excellency , Ali Mahdi Mohammed , as provisional President of the Somali Republic for a period of two years from the day on which he takes the oath . |
| 4 | Dexter let his eyes wander over the crates on the floor , brimming with files and books , and on to a dusty azalea on the window-sill for which he sensed a twinge of sadness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Shaking her head the old woman proffered a calloused palm , into which he deposited a shilling . ’ |
| 7 | Although compressed into less than 18 months there are certain similarities between the two revolutions , in their tactics as well as their phases , and although it is not explicit there is a remarkable comparison that may be inferred from Devillers ' brilliant essay in which he describes a Vietminh , at the end of 1946 , already losing momentum and because of that , driven to imprudent acts : |
| 8 | The Wimbledon midfield player was severely punished for his oration in ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ , a video in which he describes a host of footballers ' dirty tricks . |
| 9 | Any doubt about his attitude should have been set aside by the speech with which he accepted the leadership : |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But when we understand the adjective to be a predicate qualifier , so that the sentence is the counterpart to how did Reg run the engine ? , then it describes a different ( and , in engineering terms , presumably worse ) situation , in which he forces the engine to operate when it is already dry . |
| 13 | Then he gave way and agreed to remain Prime Minister , an eminence for which he professed no enthusiasm . |
| 14 | A prolonged breather , during which he took a bar of chocolate out of his pocket and unwrapped it in a leisurely way . |
| 15 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He followed Eloise out of the sitting room — she called it her boudoir , which he thought an affectation — and along the wide corridor towards the big first-floor room where the Brückners held their parties and the guests were able to admire his Russian art collection . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 : |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Most disconcerting , to those who love The Discarded Image , is the apparent cheerfulness with which he abandons the depth and range of his historical imagination in favour of a style of rhetoric which seems more reminiscent of the Belfast police courts . |
| 23 | Kelly also has two shows of brand new work on the boards these days : one , of paintings at Blum Helman from 11 November to 2 January , and another at Castelli from 21 November to 19 December in which he abandons the wall in favour of a large piece meant to be looked down upon and circumambulated . |
| 24 | He also needed the London underground , for which he had a love/dread relationship , and the London theatre , not of the new kind , but , when available , of the old music hall tradition and , when in season , the pantomime . |
| 25 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 26 | In spite of his asthma and short-sightedness , Hornung was a competent club cricketer , a game for which he had a passion ; he was proud of his membership of the MCC , to which he was elected in 1907 . |
| 27 | The earldom of Derby was conferred on Henry of Grosmont , son and heir of the Earl of Lancaster , and Hugh Audley , the old rival of the Despensers , received the earldom of Gloucester , to which he had a claim by virtue of his marriage to the second of the coheiresses of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester who fell at Bannockburn . |
| 28 | His pristine shield with the glittering cross was scarred and broken by blows of which he had no recollection . |
| 29 | He had an expensive ‘ bijou ’ residence with fluorescent tubes running under the banisters and a Music Centre with a huge bank of switches and buttons which he had no idea how to use . |
| 30 | Gaitskell and Citrine were clear that Gibson was innocent of the whiff of corruption surrounding the allegations , to which he had no opportunity to reply ( and Churchill in this case expressed his sympathy for Gibson ) , but his resignation had , inevitably , to he accepted . |