Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ryan had just turned sixteen and the object which he counted his proudest possession after Jo was his new red Porsche . |
| 2 | The solipsist is in the position of claiming that he has a language in which he describes his present and past experiences , and perhaps speculates about the future . |
| 3 | That was the point at which he took his first step towards home . |
| 4 | Nobody excelled him in that judgement , with which he united his own observations on nature , the energy of Michelangelo , and beauty and simplicity of the antique . |
| 5 | That is the way in which he devised his social charter when he had the ability to make policy at the Department . |
| 6 | Born to salty , honest East End folk — this was hinted at , the script sensibly avoiding the risk of fleshing them out — he had risen in the City to a financial position which permitted him to park his BMW beside the flash docklands flat , close to his rough but pure roots , in which he kept his nice French bird . |
| 7 | From the cupboard beside the screwed-down floor safe , he had taken a mess tin in which he kept his shoe-shining kit . |
| 8 | He attended many Royal assizes and many quarter sessions and with Sir John Leveson and Lord Cobham he attended musters , which were called to train all able bodied men , and for which he purchased his own suit of armour . |
| 9 | and he could be pleasantly practical about the craft into which he channelled his surplus energies . |
| 10 | Having travelled the ‘ road from revolutionary elitism to proletarian populism ’ , James ' American sojourn was about to come to an end but , before it did , he would write ‘ Mariners , Renegades and Castaways ’ in which he expressed his poetic view of the world through an interpretation of the works of Herman Melville . |
| 11 | Wyatt answers the charge that he alters his device ( his project and designs but also his heraldic sign — the symbolic means by which he announces his public identity ) by using the analogy of changing seasons to suggest mutability is an inevitable and indeed appropriate condition . |
| 12 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 13 | He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters . |
| 14 | Despite the ‘ Rape of the Sabines ’ episode during Christmas 1793 , when a drunken Burns may have overstepped the bounds of propriety towards his hostess , and notwithstanding the lampoons with which he requited his subsequent exile from her house , the intimate friendship that Burns formed with this ‘ really first-rate woman ’ survived its year-long breach . |
| 15 | The example in terms of which he expounds his Cartesian theory of perception is that of eating manna . |
| 16 | However , as I have recorded , Price gave evidence before the magistrate in the course of which he retracted his Swedish evidence in so far as it implicated the applicant . |
| 17 | It is one of Joe 's great regrets that his father died before he made Raging Bull in 1980 , the film for which he received his first Oscar nomination . |
| 18 | Morrissey is ‘ half a person ’ , his very being constituted around lack , maladjustment — this is the vantage point from which he launches his impossible demands on life , his denial of the reality principle . |
| 19 | In his October speech to the Conservative Party Conference at Plymouth , in which he announced his new position , he said : |
| 20 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 21 | The President of the self-proclaimed " Republic of Kosovo " , Ibrahim Rugova [ for election see p. 38919 ] , held talks in Geneva with Owen and Vance on Sept. 16 , during which he reiterated his fundamental position that Kosovo was to be treated as part of the former Yugoslavia , and not as a province of Serbia . |
| 22 | For Michael Nader , sexy Dex Dexter of TV 's Dynasty , it was a nightmare in which he saw his own death that convinced him he must break the cocaine habit . |
| 23 | Then one night he had a nightmare in which he saw his own birth and death . |
| 24 | After other speeches condemning Ian Paisley , Terence O'Neill rose and delivered a long statement in which he made it clear that he regarded the defeat of Ian Paisley as a central part of his reforming Unionism . |
| 25 | Though he did other broadcasts , Snagge was particularly fond of the Boat Race , which he made his own for forty years . |
| 26 | The same is true of an hon. Member who sadly left the Labour Benches during the summer recess , George Buckley , whose courage no one could ever fail to admire , especially the way in which he carried his mortal illness . |
| 27 | On instructions from State , the US ambassador in Rome advised him to give a press conference in which he stressed his constitutional rights and the illegality of Mossadeq actions . |
| 28 | This method of Cartesian doubt was the process by which he reached his famous dictum : Cogito ergo sum ( ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ ) . |
| 29 | Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " … |
| 30 | More generally , creation has always been understood as an act of God 's grace , something He could perfectly well have chosen not to do , rather than some kind of necessary mechanism through which He ensured His own existence . |