Example sentences of "which he [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had given a speech earlier in the year on the subject of ‘ Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago ’ , at the end of which he appealed for mass action and now he was testing the dedication and organisational abilities of his P.E.G . |
| 2 | Apart from the system of secret diplomacy under his personal control which he developed after 1745 and which served merely to complicate and frustrate the foreign policies carried on by his ministers through regular channels , he took little interest in the machinery of government . |
| 3 | In addition to his tile business , he also transfer-printed on to enamelled copper and porcelain , which he sold to other retailers and from his own shop in Harrington Street . |
| 4 | Other national platforms for his views and activities were the Council of Church Missioners to the Deaf and Dumb , of which he was chairman from 1927 for eighteen years ; the Central Advisory Council for the Spiritual Care of the Deaf and Dumb on which he served for forty-four years , and the Joint Examination Board ( later renamed " The Deaf Welfare Examination Board " ) of which he was a founder member . |
| 5 | I am sorry that the Secretary of State was not in the Chamber when the hon. Gentleman ended by saying that his last ambition in politics was to abolish the Department in which he served for eight years . |
| 6 | He had prepared a pasta salad which he served with wholemeal bread and fruit juice . |
| 7 | It is possible that the character and appearance of Stephen Maturin owe something to the friendship between Captain M. in Marryat 's The King 's Own and the surgeon MacAllen , a dedicated amateur naturalist who used the ships on which he served as convenient repositories for live and dead specimens from their ports of call . |
| 8 | and other Welsh scholars , he prepared new editions of The History of the Gwydir Family ( 1927 ) , and Basilikon Doron ( 1604 ) , and four seventeenth-century Welsh religious books for the University of Wales press board , on which he served from 1922 until 1930 . |
| 9 | This June 1954 view of 26015 passing over the pointwork of Glossop line at Dinting reminds the writer of the final working which he witnessed on 10th March 1981 . |
| 10 | But perhaps the most remarkable adaptation of this versatile word was to be found in Robert Buchanan 's fierce attack on Rudyard Kipling 's poetry , which he denounced in 1899 as ‘ The Voice of the Hooligan ’ . |
| 11 | A working compromise was reached only after Barbarossa agreed to hold the Pope 's bridle and stirrup at a formal meeting ; an act of ritual homage which he had at first refused . |
| 12 | Instead the address which he had at last been persuaded to give was in a short and narrow street off the Edgware Road , an enclave of cheap , unsmart cafés chiefly Goan and Greek . |
| 13 | It took 13 years to bring Lashley to justice for the murder which he committed during 10 months of liberty while on parole from prison after a string of sex attacks in 1969 . |
| 14 | And yet the mundane circumference beyond which he stepped at such times was also necessary to him : it was the circle in which he could stand and be safe . |
| 15 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 16 | Educated at Leeds Grammar School , he graduated in classics and divinity at Trinity College , Dublin , in 1904 , after which he taught for two years at a school in West Kirby in Liverpool . |
| 17 | Having twice refused on the grounds that he had first to win Tangier and Ceuta ( which he accomplished in 1084 ) , Yusuf finally turned his attention to Spain at Motamid 's third desperate request . |
| 18 | Future projects include a Canadian theatre production of Playboy Of The Western World , Flashback with Dennis Hopper and Renegades , a cop movie in which he stars alongside fellow young gun , Lou Diamond Phillips . |
| 19 | I mention this only because it is one of the dominant features in an inspector 's life , the shadow of which he feels at all times . |
| 20 | He was later Head of the Unemployment Benefit Service , which he managed with great skill , and where he made many friends . |
| 21 | His friends say the van , which he kept for two years until he turned professional in 1954 , helped teach him more about comedy than anything else . |
| 22 | He managed this with the help of a flannel , some scented soap from England which he kept for special occasions and a kettleful of hot water that took five minutes to boil on the single electric ring that served as a cooker and , in winter , as a heater . |
| 23 | The butler then went in for breeding dogs which he kept in large wire enclosures . |
| 24 | Josselin 's reputation is based on the detailed diary which he kept from 5 August 1644 until a few days before his death . |
| 25 | But far more important to his future development as an artist were the evening classes at the Westminster School given by Walter Sickert [ q.v. ] , which he attended in 1908–10 . |
| 26 | He shows his annoyance with some intimidating facial expression , backed up by a sparse selection of adjectival punctuation invariably using the ‘ f ’ word , which he uses with considerable effect . |
| 27 | Neither of these assignments nor his cure in a new church in Oxford , St Aloysius , to which he returned with high hopes , was conspicuously successful , although the Oxford stay resulted in another burst of lyricism , including ‘ Duns Scotus 's Oxford ’ and ‘ Binsey Poplars ’ . |
| 28 | He derived deep satisfaction from his own creative work in which he engaged in quiet , country places and in the privacy of his own study . |
| 29 | He considered the focus of the controversy to be the juridical effects of a stipulation made in favour of a third party , which he deconstructed into three questions : can a third party claim directly any such benefit or can it only be claimed through the auspices of a State party ; may the parties to the agreement amend or abolish the stipulation without the consent of the third party ; and need the third party accept the stipulation in order to be vested with the benefit in question ? 120 |
| 30 | The Coronations were launched by an ever-publicity-conscious Luff , shortly before his retirement , which he delayed until 1954 . |