Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rogers was thinking about a cricket match in which he had made a good score , reliving the running between the wickets as he bucketed about between the shell-bursts . |
| 2 | Playing for the New Zealand Barbarians in a 23–13 win over a strong Public School Wanderers side , Botha ended a superb personal display in soaking conditions with his shorts as pristine white as when he had started the game , during which he had given a cultured demonstration of the arts of reading the game and tactical kicking . |
| 3 | For in 1920 , when Binyon began work towards his version of the Inferno , he exchanged letters with Hewlett , who had translated the first canto years before , and now urged Binyon to shorten his measure to tetrameters , pointing out that this was what he himself had done in his ‘ Song of the Plough ’ , a long poem in terza rima in which he had invested a great deal . |
| 4 | Last year he was invited to hold an exhibition of his work at Urbino , in central Italy , at the house once owned by the Renaissance painter Raphael , which he had visited a few years before . |
| 5 | He said Thompson had been involved in a traffic accident in which he had suffered a head injury and been concussed for a short time . |
| 6 | That is a gift with regard to which he had reserved a benefit and that gift ( the full value of the house ) will come into charge to inheritance tax on his death . |
| 7 | On the English side the king 's eldest son , the Black Prince , had grown to manhood anxious to win his share of the glory and profits of war , of which he had had a taste at Crécy . |
| 8 | The defendants called rail workers out on strike and the plaintiff , an ordinary traveller , incurred hotel expenses when he was unable to travel on the journey for which he had bought a ticket . |
| 9 | He then opened discussions with Universal , a company in which he had taken a 25 per cent stake back in 1935 , whereby Rank 's smaller films would be packaged with the pictures of an independent US production company , and sold in a block to exhibitors . |
| 10 | An Australian Broadcasting Tribunal investigation into Mr Bond 's eligibility to own television stations declared him ‘ not fit and proper ’ and growing stock market unease was accentuated by the disclosure that Mr Bond was trying to sell Van Gogh 's Irises , for which he had paid a record $54million but which had been partially funded by the auctioneer . |
| 11 | On April 21 Mobutu accepted the leadership of the ruling Popular Movement of the Revolution ( MPR ) from which he had resigned a year before [ see p. 37336 ] . |
| 12 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 13 | Johnny was an old-fashioned inside-forward ( the position in which he had won a League championship medal with Chelsea in 1955 ) , but he gradually moved , via wing-half , to full-back and it was from there that he skippered Palace 's first promotion side for 40 years , taking us out of Division 4 in 1960–61 . |
| 14 | It tells the fascinating story of his summer of 1991 , which he spent flying a Stearman ( nicknamed Cannibal Queen ) around the USA , touching down in all 48 states of the continental United States . |
| 15 | He also wanted to emphasize in the appraisal two issues he had already brought to the attention of staff : assessment of pupils — with which there had already been some changes — and language across the curriculum , which he felt required a more positive policy . |
| 16 | Karpov also claimed that the Soviet Ministry of Nuclear Power , which he said had a vested interest in obscuring the facts , had exercised undue influence over the parameters of the study . |
| 17 | He has received a leaked internal memo which he said indicates a ‘ cosy relationship ’ has been established between Safety Authority and Eurotunnel , the Anglo-French consortium that will own and operate the tunnel . |
| 18 | CULROSS Largely administered by the National Trust for Scotland , a town still essentially sixteenth- and seventeenth-century in building and layout , with cobbled streets for the poor , ‘ planestane ’ strips for the gentry , a dignified Town House , preserved ‘ Little Houses ’ , and a shipping merchant 's white-harled , pantiled mansion which he chose to designate a ‘ palace ’ . |
| 19 | The American president was then left with a situation in which he 'd created a club which he hims he himself could n't join . |
| 20 | He was all for England 's democracy and against any form of union with Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man , for which he seemed to have a particular dislike as " a nucleus of Celtic imagery " . |
| 21 | Personal delight and considerable sensitivity is evident in his work ; whether the delicate pencil studies of his middle years or , later , in his watercolours in which he seemed to find a new kind of inner freedom . |
| 22 | Those were the figures which he aggregated to produce a total of over one point two million pounds . |
| 23 | But the excuse which he gave had a genuine ring about it : he could not afford to go , for none would serve in his retinue unless he rewarded them with revenues from his own lands , which would entail a loss of status ( ‘ grant abesement de mon estat ’ ) which the king would not wish . |
| 24 | Now began a new phase of his life in which he tried to live a grand , filmstar-type life in a huge house on three acres of land . |
| 25 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 26 | Her eyes swept across his face , and suddenly she had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him that it was n't important at all , that she was , inside , what he 'd called a real woman , one who wanted a home and children to fill it , and most of all a husband , a man who would take her in his arms and kiss her until nothing mattered except him , kiss her as Nicolo had , make her want him as she 'd wanted Nicolo … |
| 27 | The special privileges and preferential treatment of the bureaucracy was the starting point of Djilas ' criticism of the Soviet Union and analysis of what he wished to call a ‘ new class ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , I do n't know , ’ Harrison drawled , ‘ what he said made a lot of sense to me . ’ |
| 29 | This was having something in common with your lover , she thought , remembering the way it had been with Mike , who was interested only in banking and golf and what he called making a home for one 's family . |
| 30 | This was where he came from — not in any self-pity — ( although there could have been an excuse for that , in the bitter harvest of the coalfields ) — nor with any attempt to show off ( although the battles he had fought and won to achieve what he did deserved a boast ) — those stories were told and retold to keep the faith . |