Example sentences of "which [verb] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this prompting the Base controller also saw a trace which led him to challenge the aircraft 's position report at BN . |
| 2 | His hand wavered , and she noticed the steel discipline which made him drop the phone back in its cradle and wait while she sipped the water . |
| 3 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 4 | Len Vickery finished third after carding a score of 68a round which helped him secure the past captain 's cup . |
| 5 | The positive attributes of Piggy stressed were his mature attitude , good scientific understanding , which helped him to dismiss the beast quickly , and clear head ( which became very important towards the end of the book ) . |
| 6 | Istvan Gati , as the Persian King , Orontes , is a sensational baritone with a clear , passionate tone , although his baritone Jozsef Moldvay sounds as though he has something stuck at the back o his mouth , a bit of dust maybe , which causes him to deliver the interpretation of his role in a somewhat unexpected manner . |
| 7 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 8 | Mr. Bonanza had told me earlier that day of his intention to get the girl away that night , but unfortunately he had a stomach disorder which caused him to postpone the trip twenty-four hours . |
| 9 | The British ambassador at Constantinople , meanwhile , was pro-Turkish to the point of ignoring instructions from London which told him to advise the Turks to give ground to Russia . |
| 10 | He was sitting at an angle which allowed him to watch the door . |
| 11 | In order to claim a scientific status for Marxism as knowledge rather than ideology , or non-knowledge , Althusser invoked Bachelard 's historical epistemology which allowed him to posit the idea of a radical discontinuity between the two , with Marxist science separated from earlier forms of non-knowledge in Marx 's texts by an ‘ epistemological break ’ . |
| 12 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 13 | Polygnotos , it is clear from Pausanias 's description , took two important steps which allowed him to express the classical spirit without the constrictions of the archaic tradition . |
| 14 | The eighties saw a change of label for Johnny , switching to Alligator Records and producing the album Guitar Slinger , the cover of which shows him playing the small , headless guitar he still uses today . |
| 15 | It may be , of course , that the intention is to numb his senses before he gets to the umpteenth and penultimate clause which requires him to foot the bill for the monstrosity . |
| 16 | Fogerty , 23 , appears as a South African boxer — a role which required him to join the actors ' union Equity . |
| 17 | His pictures are not narrowly documentary though but rich in personal observation and involvement in the visual event which urged him to press the shutter and preserve the stilled vision as a permanent memory-image . |
| 18 | His pictures are not narrowly documentary though but rich in personal observation and involvement in the visual event which urged him to press the shutter and preserve the stilled vision as a permanent memory-image . |
| 19 | Bubbling with enthusiasm , Fr Cunningham , 80 , said it was the opportunity to work with children which prompted him to accept the latest offer of as a ‘ first step to retirement ’ . |
| 20 | His first books were written while he was a correspondent for Time magazine , which assigned him to cover the Far East . |
| 21 | He was being given the right of reply , it was pointed out , at which point he put the phone down . |
| 22 | The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can . |
| 23 | Mary Reveley 's stable star was one of those affected by the virus last February , which meant he missed the big Cheltenham and Aintree meetings . |
| 24 | Joyce 's services to the cause were recognised by a paid appointment as West London Area Administrative Officer of the BUF , which enabled him to leave the Victoria Tutorial College and abandon his PhD thesis at King 's . |
| 25 | Then Nomadic Way brought the stamina which enabled him to win the Cesarewitch two years ago into play and finishing well up that final testing hill , he failed by only a head to catch Cruising Altitude . |
| 26 | ‘ The accident might have been avoided if he had adopted an approach which enabled him to keep the crane in sight . |
| 27 | The same tenacious vanity which enabled him to survive the next nine years of penury wrecked his chances of succeeding as a writer . |
| 28 | Lapworth was passionate in his search for truth and exactness in the solution of geological problems , and diplomatic in his presentation , gifts which enabled him to propose the accepted solution to a famous controversy . |
| 29 | Douglas affected a dispatch box pose which enabled him to deliver the juicier bits of the legal volte- face to a point in the mid-distance somewhere above the Opposition gallery . |
| 30 | The 24-year-old local hero failed to find the superb form which saw him win the French Indoor Championships , as he lost his first match to Pete Sampras , 7–6 ( 7–5 ) , 7–6 ( 7–3 ) . |