Example sentences of "which [verb] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For Marx , the peasant represented a conservative force because of his structural position in society , which separates him from those who might share his class interests .
2 According to Bede , Wulfhere reigned seventeen years ( HE 111 , 24 ) , which led him to 675 for Wulfhere 's death , reckoning forward from 658 , but if Wulfhere did not become king until 659 a seventeen-year reign would suggest 676 for his death .
3 It also goes with the people he moves among , the ‘ circles ’ and ‘ sets ’ of The Possessed , many of whom are travellers too , and with the ‘ quintet ’ which he does n't belong to but is entangled with , which he tries to kick himself clear of , and which dumps him in that pond and leaves his cap behind .
4 Newton spent more time and energy on alchemical speculations than on the scientific discoveries which galvanised the Western world : Storr reconstructs the neurotic drive which impelled him to heroic intellectual feats .
5 That hard work has paid dividends for Washington , who has already scored notable career wins over Connors , Chang , Cherkasov , Wheaton and Lendl , and who claimed his first ever senior title in Memphis in February , a win which moved him from 38 to 23 on the IBM/ATP Computer , his highest ever showing .
6 He must be ready to speculate , for the sources ( in this case the chronicles and records of government which provide him with much of his material ) do not always come up to expectation .
7 Further , and in acknowledgment of his work as joint secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee and for his duties in connection with the annual Cambridge Summer School Pateman also received a substantial honorarium which provided him with some security as his salary as District Secretary was not infrequently in arrears .
8 On the absurdity of his get rich quick schemes , which involved him with shady financiers .
9 Thus he learned a ‘ street wisdom ’ which helped him through similar periods between passages at sea .
10 Section 83(1) of the Building Societies Act 1986 confers on an individual the right as against a building society to have any complaint of his about action taken by the society in relation to a prescribed matter of complaint which affects him in prescribed respects , investigated under a scheme recognised by the Building Societies Commission .
11 ‘ ( 1 ) An individual shall , by virtue of and in accordance with schemes under this section , have the right , as against a building society , to have any complaint of his about action taken by the society in relation to a prescribed matter of complaint which affects him in prescribed respects investigated under the scheme .
12 Dr Clark has written of the eigh-teenth-century Englishman : The agency of the State which confronted him in everyday life was not Parliament , reaching out as a machinery of representative democracy … but the Church , quartering the land not into a few hundred constituencies but into ten thousand parishes , impinging on the daily concerns of the great majority , supporting its black-coated intelligentsia , bidding for a monopoly of education , piety and political acceptability .
13 Terrible neuralgic pains which troubled him throughout this period were the mirror of his inward distress , and the large doses of laudanum he took to relieve his symptoms , a portent for the future .
14 As he approached his defeated enemy , he felt no sense of triumph , which surprised him after all the frustrating years of hunting him down .
15 That night he prayed devoutly that he might be upheld in the purity which he had so far , maintained , in spite of the temptations and evil example which encompassed him on all sides .
16 Men of all parties recognise in his personality something which is admirable , something which distinguishes him from other men .
17 So Suger persuaded Louis to begin the task — not completed till the reign of Philip Augustus — of extricating himself from the bonds of homage which bound him to various bishops in the realm .
18 It was just that he had strange ideas which took him into bad company .
19 John Pemberton was Palace 's genial and gutsy full-back throughout our promotion drive to Division one in 1988–89 and then in The Eagles ' progress to the FA Cup Final and Replay of' 1990 Indeed , his surging run in the semi-final against Liverpool at Villa Park , which took him past several defender s , before he delivered the cross from which Mark Bright put the Palace on terms and on the way to our stunning victory , will probably remain for ever in the memories of those who saw it , even though he impressed enormously in the two Cup Finals against Manchester United 's sophisticated and costly imports .
20 At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding .
21 While the EC was debating its approach to the problems of Eastern Europe the president-elect of another distressed part of the world was nearing the end of a pre-inaugural tour which took him to all the major capitals .
22 Perhaps his father had the kind of job which took him to many parts of the country , and possibly he took the boy with him , I do not know .
23 The winner on the day was Francois Lombard — a result which took him to third place overall in the championships .
24 To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director .
25 Gunn continues , describing the feelings which thrilled him in that time now past .
26 The thing which kept him in such a feverish state was the unmistakable message her brown eyes had sent him as they stood so close together outside her door .
27 Comfortable Government majorities on two key motions followed a searing fightback by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , during raucous exchanges which saw him at one stage on the ropes in the face of a furious tirade by , alternately , the Labour leader , John Smith , and the shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown .
28 His subsequent progress inside the Corporation was rapid and distinctive — from the external services in Bush House to Canada again , this time as BBC representative from 1956 to 1959 ; back to Bush House as head of external broadcasting administration ; on to Broadcasting House as the BBC 's secretary ( 1963–6 ) , a post of varying status and influence at different times in the history of the BBC , but during the regime of the director-general , Sir Hugh Greene , who had personally selected Curran for the job , a key post drawing him into discussions of policy , often highly controversial policy , as well as of administration ; back again to Bush House as director of external services ( 1967–9 ) , which brought him into close touch with government ; and on Greene 's retirement , becoming , to his considerable surprise , director-general himself in April 1969 .
29 However , with the ascendancy of the conservative faction in the 1540s , Rudd began to achieve a modest prominence , being nominated clerk of the closet , which brought him into close personal contact with Henry VIII .
30 In 1905 he published Studies in Colonial Nationalism , the book which brought him into public notice .
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