Example sentences of "which [verb] him [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE wayward Marquess of Blandford last night claimed it was a lost love which led him into drug addiction . |
| 2 | ( 42 ) If he was small enough to sell his Lord for so little , how account for the remorse which led him to suicide when he realized that Christ was to be slain ? |
| 3 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
| 4 | The French master chef , dressed in his long bespattered apron , stood by his post chopping , slicing , stirring and mixing with a vigour which drenched him in sweat whilst he swore at his apprentices for this or that . |
| 5 | Within a few months , in late 1954 , the Senate censured him and although Nixon , his loyal backer in the past , considerately struck out the word Censure from the resolution , which condemned him for conduct unbecoming to the Senate , he was finished in Washington . |
| 6 | Pound was a bohemian figure , despite his Quaker origins , who espoused an anti-credit economic philosophy which thrust him into anti-Semitism . |
| 7 | In keeping with the book 's leitmotif , however , let's ignore all that and focus instead on the rich images of Lamb in shock at the lunch interval after weathering 22 bouncers among the preceding 24 balls ; of Dexter losing interest after fielding all day in 90 degrees at Karachi ; of the normally taciturn Peter May sounding off about the regime which followed him as chairman of selectors ; of the ‘ terror of spin ’ and the West Indian ‘ throat-theory ’ reign of terror , attributed in part to the meatiness of their backsides . |
| 8 | He thought of his own rigorous training , the constant reports on his work and conduct which followed him from computer base to computer base . |
| 9 | They played chess and bezique and silly paper games , Alexandra attempted sketches of him which convulsed him with laughter and read comic poems to him . |
| 10 | In 1756 he had opened his poem On the Goodness of the Supreme Being with an invocation to Orpheus ( the Gentiles ' David ) which beseeches him for inspiration for his great religious theme : |
| 11 | One of his passengers dropped the Cessna 's dinghy to the JetRanger 's pilot , who was subsequently picked up by an RAF SAR helicopter which took him to hospital in Blackpool suffering from hypothermia . |
| 12 | Suddenly he despised Tolby , with a venom which took him by surprise . |
| 13 | He did hurt his back and lost a fair chuck of elbow on the side instruments which kept him in hospital in the UK for a couple of weeks . |
| 14 | If Marcos was cynical , he was no more so than the American foreign policy which kept him in power and in clover for 20 years . |
| 15 | With Maurice Thompson and Samuel Moyer [ qq.v. ] he was involved in trading ventures with West Africa , which brought him into competition with the East India Company , but he went on to become the company 's deputy governor in 1657 and its governor in 1659 . |
| 16 | He took two steps which brought him into contact with me : he joined the ATC Squadron , and he saw to it that he did Fire-Watch duty on my nights . |
| 17 | In 1533 , the Bishop became involved with the Holy Maid of Kent , with her visions and threats against King Henry VIII , and also along with his friend Sir Thomas More with the Bishops ' stand against the King over his divorce and subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn , which brought him into trouble with the King . |
| 18 | He made contacts which brought him in touch with Jack Kent Cook who ran Saturday Night Magazine . |
| 19 | LAWYERS for Mike Tyson demanded a new trial for the former heavyweight champion yesterday , arguing that the jury which convicted him of rape was not allowed to consider whether his accuser had confused him as to whether she was a willing sex partner . |
| 20 | He was brought up in South Africa , and at the age of six had a serious accident which confined him to bed for three years . |
| 21 | While on the voyage he read Lyell 's Principles of Geology and was soon making observations on the gradual elevation of the Andes , which converted him to uniformitarianism . |
| 22 | He then contacted Greenpeace , which put him in touch with Scharfenstein . |
| 23 | She was referring to the illness which put him in hospital last year before he was moved out of Pollsmoor to his present quarters , formerly a prison warden 's home . |
| 24 | 6 weeks after the jump which put him in hospital , Rex Pritchard is back on his feet , though he now a steel rod in his right leg . |
| 25 | He 's still recovering from the knee injury which put him in hospital last February . |
| 26 | ‘ Through all the exhaustion and fear of the disastrous 1986 climb , Kurt Diemberger felt himself at one with creation , part of the ‘ endless knot ’ which put him in harmony with the cosmos and with a force which in the end was to save his life . ’ |
| 27 | Couples , the US Player of the Year and defending a title which inspired him to glory at Augusta last April , regained his compsure to cover the last seven holes in one under par . |
| 28 | There were two of Hugh 's sergeants waiting impassively along the path , with a litter on which to lay him for passage to castle or abbey , according as Hugh should direct . |
| 29 | But Taylor will have noted that there is much more to Atkinson 's game now than the blistering pace which launched him into league football with Ipswich Town six years ago . |
| 30 | Any seaman holding a Federation Ticket pledged , in return for preference in hiring by Federation members , to work with non-union men ; for Is he might have a " parchment ticket " which entitled him to injury and other benefits . |