Example sentences of "which he [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones is also determined to increase funding for basic research , which he says the previous government allowed to run down . |
| 2 | So much did he dread that his own was a case of ‘ redemption by parricide ’ that he emphasized the unwillingness with which he accepted the divine call with language which is exaggerated and almost coarse . |
| 3 | He held up his arms for a kiss and she melted into a sleepy hug and kiss , during which he had the final word and spluttered dribble against her cheek . |
| 4 | After his fine defensive effort in the opening game , Speelman 's supporters had high expectations for the second game , in which he had the white pieces , but it all went horribly wrong . |
| 5 | This absorption into a different community , quite other than anything he had experienced since childhood , into which he had the natural right of entry accorded by his Welsh cousins because of the tie of blood , required a few more Long Vacation visits before he could articulate its meaning for his own mature intellectual development . |
| 6 | He was exhilarated by working with the legendary director Sir Tyrone Guthrie in the Shakespearean tragedy , in which he had the humble roles of Second Serving man and Second Citizen . |
| 7 | In the early nineteenth century , Lamartine stayed with the Damiani family in Jaffa and mentioned them in Voyage to the Orient , the same book in which he advertised the colonial possibilities of Palestine . |
| 8 | The lights were on in the office from which he commanded the Carabinieri Company covering the section of the city that lay south of the river Arno and a large tract of country going south through the Chianti hills to the borders of the Province of Siena . |
| 9 | Mr Blatchford was especially concerned about the family — by which he meant the heterosexual , patriarchal family which he regarded as sacred in Labour 's pantheon . |
| 10 | ‘ We are , ’ he said , ‘ about to introduce a scheme to replace the much discredited ‘ trikes ’ , ’ by which he meant the three-wheeled conveyances then issued to the disabled . |
| 11 | Perhaps he could do little else , but there is no mistaking the magnanimity of the spirit in which he wrote the following reply to one question which had been sent to him during his exile . |
| 12 | But the most objectionable aspect of his article is the airy complacency with which he identifies the psychological morbidity of all but his chosen few . |
| 13 | Also in 1818 Coffey , by then acting inspector-general of excise , published his Observations on Chichester 's pamphlet , in which he restated the official policy but did not produce any very convincing arguments or evidence in its justification . |
| 14 | I thank my hon. Friend for his earlier remarks , in which he recognised the great step forward that we have taken with the Food Safety Act , but I am concerned about his latter comments . |
| 15 | ‘ In Anthony Asquith 's delicate direction , the film has its power precisely in the care with which he presents the moral discussion of the novel , ’ wrote one critic . |
| 16 | But Anselm may have shared their disappointment : the tasks for which he felt the full weight of personal responsibility were very harassing , and his success in performing them was open to serious doubt . |
| 17 | Pasteur was drawn into the field of bacteriology , of which he became the great pioneer ( together with Robert Koch [ 1843–1910 ] , a German country doctor ) , through industrial chemistry , more precisely the analysis of why beer and vinegar sometimes go bad , for reasons which chemical analysis could not reveal . |
| 18 | They had four sons , the eldest of whom , Captain W. R. Colbeck , RNR , was surveyor with the British , Australian , and New Zealand Antarctic research expedition of 1929–31 , for which he received the Polar medal ; Sir Douglas Mawson [ q.v. ] named the Colbeck Archipelago after him . |
| 19 | On 18 April , in an atmosphere of great tension , Hedilla was elected as the national chief of Falange Española , but , the same evening , Franco made a radio broadcast in which he announced the immediate fusion of the Falange and the Communión Tradicionalista . |
| 20 | And in one marvellous passage , in which he contrasts the old dispensation with the new , Paul reaches this point as the climax of his theme . |
| 21 | The classic study of this tool is by M. Charles Robert in which he compared the Roman examples with the modern equivalent known to the French as le boutoir . |
| 22 | In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’ |
| 23 | He stared angrily back and the softly lit drawing room of the hotel , in which he imagined the sleek lives of the patricians of Ireland , housed in calm . |
| 24 | Under these inducements and persuasions Cranmer signed his fifth recantation , in which he condemned the whole heresy of Luther and Zwingli and recognised the Pope as Christ 's Vicar and Supreme Head of the Church . |
| 25 | LORD ALDINGTON yesterday denied that he had lied to a High Court libel jury about the date in May 1945 on which he left the British Army 's V Corps in southern Austria . |
| 26 | There was no pity for his evident loneliness and many stories circulating about his arrogance and the superior manner in which he parked the cheaply-framed photograph of his parents on his night table . |
| 27 | I believe it is the most powerful poem he ever wrote and I want to analyse the way in which he maintains the clenched fist of resistant energy through four rhyming quatrains . |
| 28 | The political reporters on all stations have paid tribute to the outstanding contribution made by my right hon. Friend , and the way in which he trumped the sporting aphorisms of the Prime Minister , used in the orchestrated triumph that we have had to live through in the past few weeks from a Government rocked on their heels by the assault from the Opposition today . |
| 29 | Galileo had written a pious preface in which he ridiculed the Copernican theory as wild and fantastic and contrary to Holy Scripture . |
| 30 | President Roh Tae Woo made a three-day official visit to Japan on May 24-26 , during which he met the Japanese Prime Minister , Toshiki Kaifu , and Emperor Akihito . |