Example sentences of "which he [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some of his most effective imagery in The Four Quartets was based on the underground , which he patronized for reasons of speed , economy , and no doubt of experiencing the frisson of imagining himself consigned to perdition . |
| 2 | Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) , which he directed for MGM , seemed glib in its presentation of the changes war had brought to a married couple , changing him from timid clerk to authoritarian naval officer , and her from drab housewife to confident member of the WRNS , but the film was popular nevertheless . |
| 3 | For all the wartime jibes and contempt which he directed from Berlin at ‘ Mr Bloody Churchill ’ and his followers , he was hanged . |
| 4 | Altogether it was an expensive holiday for which he crossed to Le Havre on 8 August . |
| 5 | Sandys accepted the General Staff view after his visit to Kenya , during which he came under pressure from the settlers to give confidence by building permanent barracks for the Strategic Reserve units likely to be stationed there . |
| 6 | King Moshoeshoe , prior to his removal from power , had paid a two-day state visit to Zimbabwe on Oct. 28-29 , 1989 , during which he appealed for aid to help reduce Lesotho 's economic dependence on South Africa . |
| 7 | Basic to it is a distinction , which he took from the English philosopher John Stuart Mill ( 1806–73 ) , between ‘ natural science ’ and ‘ moral science ’ , which he rendered in German as Naturwissenschaft and Geisteswissenschaft respectively . |
| 8 | He was one of the first to produce high-intensity electric light from arc lamps taking current from dynamos ( 1865 ) , which he developed into searchlights for the Royal Navy ( 1874 ) ; after the Titanic disaster in 1912 he strongly urged that mercantile vessels should be fitted with searchlights . |
| 9 | Tony Page , Assistant Manager , Administration , Corporate Banking , Edinburgh devised a crossword , copies of which he sold to friends and colleagues for £1 each . |
| 10 | The students I talked to here were Bryony Langworth who had designed an attractive coffee and tea service ; Christina Kirk , whose glass I admired ; Steven Keegan who had done a series of animal sculptures , one of which he sold to Dame Mary Soames ; Julie Sellars whose water sculpture for Shaftesbury Avenue 1990 looked most attractive ; Theresa Czyzewicz whose jewellery entailed the finest workmanship and was very pretty ; Clive van Heerden who was in a wheelchair near his exhibition as I arrived . |
| 11 | Mr Packer was being actively lobbied to take joint venture control of the Bond Media Channel 9 Network , which he sold to Mr Bond for more than A$1billion several years ago . |
| 12 | He made use of the new Dover–Calais cable to transmit information , which he sold to clients , between the London and Paris stock exchanges . |
| 13 | From there he went to Doxford 's Marine Engine Works in Sunderland , after which he served at sea as fourth and third engineer on several steamships . |
| 14 | One of the kindest and most popular members of the board , which he served with distinction for some 20 years , Mr Scott played a major part in the gradual development of Goodison Park into one of the country 's finest grounds , and also led the battle against hooliganism from the front . |
| 15 | At home he was a staunch supporter of the BDDA which he served as Chairman of the Further Education and Youth Committee for many years , before being elected a Grand Councillor and later awarded a medal of honour . |
| 16 | Their only child , Sean , was to lead a varied career in which he served as chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army , minister for external affairs of the Irish Republic , and United Nations commissioner for Namibia . |
| 17 | There his reputation as an administrator and expository bibliographer increased with the publication of reports and papers on the library and its educational role , and with his contributions to the south Wales press , the Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society , which he served as treasurer ( 1910–24 ) , and Y Cymmrodor . |
| 18 | The character of X. Trapnel , for which he served as model , in Anthony Powell 's A Dance to the Music of Time ( 12 vols. , 1951–75 ) gives an impression of the persona he created for himself . |
| 19 | Blackwell was an ensign in the City 's horse militia as early as 1642 and a cornet in the parliamentary army by 1644 ; in 1645 he became a captain in Oliver Cromwell 's own cavalry regiment , in which he served until June 1648 . |
| 20 | His energetic intelligence was evident in the servants whom he employed , in the policies which he countenanced or sponsored , and in the skill which he displayed and the pains which he took in order to get his own way . |
| 21 | Thomas ’ belief that woman 's state is one of subjection derives , as we have seen , from the false biological presuppositions which he took from Aristotle . |
| 22 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 23 | Page after page , after page , after page , of descriptive material , drawn from all over the world , both published accounts , which Frazer drew on , erm , with er , kind of er , encyclopedic knowledge , but also a lot of personal contacts which he had with people like missionaries , er , colonial administrators , and even er , local people who would with descriptions and er , and facts about the things he was , he was researching . |
| 24 | Hugh Dalton , whose father was Canon of Windsor , reports a conversation which he had with Stamfordham at Windsor Castle on 26 December . |
| 25 | Roxburgh was a royal castle and its associated township , both quite large , situated within the narrow point of land where Teviot joined Tweed ; a strong position where King David the First , son of Malcolm Canmore and Saint Margaret , had established his headquarters on accession to the throne , and from which he had in effect ruled Scotland . |
| 26 | As proof of his good faith he deposited with the business agents the sum of £1,000 pounds which he had in savings . |
| 27 | The chief measure which he had in mind was old-age pensions . |
| 28 | It was designed both to whet commercial appetite for the more ambitious ‘ large work on the Birds of Australia ’ , which he had in mind , and to establish the scientific validity of the enterprise . |
| 29 | PAUL ACCOLA , Switzerland 's alpine skiing world champion , will miss the Championships in Japan in February after surgery on his left knee , which he injured in training . |
| 30 | Bartholomaeus Anglicus , a professor of theology at Paris , discussed in his encyclopaedia De proprietatibus Rerum the three major types of insanity ; frenzy , amentia and stupor , which he associated with excesses of choler , melancholy and phlegm . |