Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb past] [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 | That was the point at which he took his first step towards home . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That is the way in which he devised his social charter when he had the ability to make policy at the Department . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | From the cupboard beside the screwed-down floor safe , he had taken a mess tin in which he kept his shoe-shining kit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | and he could be pleasantly practical about the craft into which he channelled his surplus energies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In his October speech to the Conservative Party Conference at Plymouth , in which he announced his new position , he said : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then one night he had a nightmare in which he saw his own birth and death . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Though he did other broadcasts , Snagge was particularly fond of the Boat Race , which he made his own for forty years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This method of Cartesian doubt was the process by which he reached his famous dictum : Cogito ergo sum ( ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ ) . |
| 24 | 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 " … |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The problem here was not the distance , only 28 miles [ 45 km ] , but the intervening ridge of high ground , which rose to a height of 2500 feet [ 760 m ] , and the River Spey , across which he built his first double-arched bridge , 180 feet [ 55 m ] long ; another four single-arch bridges were required elsewhere on the route . |
| 27 | ‘ Rendre la perception confuse , multiple et simultanée du monde ’ was the title of one of the interviews given to coincide with the publication of Histoire ( 1967 ) , in the course of which he described his narrative strategy in the novel as an attempt to convey , in formal terms , the incoherence of perception and memory . |
| 28 | He was an inventor , and designed quick-selling gadgets which he used his showman-like qualities to retail at the many regional and metropolitan exhibitions being organized in the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | Then he noticed a gap in the wire through which he squeezed his vast height , leaving the crutches behind . |
| 30 | Phat was Duclos ' particular favourite among the cai because the ruthless sadism with which he disciplined his fellow coolies was matched by the utter servility he showed to Duclos to ensure he retained both his approval and the necessary stamp of his authority . |