Example sentences of "which [vb past] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On the absurdity of his get rich quick schemes , which involved him with shady financiers . |
| 3 | Thus he learned a ‘ street wisdom ’ which helped him through similar periods between passages at sea . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was just that he had strange ideas which took him into bad company . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1905 he published Studies in Colonial Nationalism , the book which brought him into public notice . |
| 11 | He lost the protracted litigation with the Queen and this could have been a factor amongst those which persuaded him into treasonable activity later which cost the worthy earl his head ! |
| 12 | His Magic Flute for the Welsh National Opera , which introduced him to British audiences in 1979 , avoided the sort of in-jokes that Mozart 's pop entertainment often elicits ( authentically enough , as Schikaneder was a Rowan Atkinson figure ) . |
| 13 | They followed widespread criticism of Keating in the British tabloid press , which accused him of insulting Queen Elizabeth during her 12th state visit earlier in February for the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of Sydney as a city . |
| 14 | Even then , it was the desertion of allies , the failure of his Italian bankers , and the capture of ransomable kings which saved him from financial disaster . |
| 15 | A DARLINGTON man was yesterday recovering in hospital after a Good Friday attack which left him with broken bones in his face . |
| 16 | Lanfranc , who had a practical mind , had foreseen this need when he was still prior of Bec , and had put together a collection of Canon Law , which stood him in good stead as archbishop . |