Example sentences of "which he [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter let his eyes wander over the crates on the floor , brimming with files and books , and on to a dusty azalea on the window-sill for which he sensed a twinge of sadness . |
| 2 | Shaking her head the old woman proffered a calloused palm , into which he deposited a shilling . ’ |
| 3 | Although compressed into less than 18 months there are certain similarities between the two revolutions , in their tactics as well as their phases , and although it is not explicit there is a remarkable comparison that may be inferred from Devillers ' brilliant essay in which he describes a Vietminh , at the end of 1946 , already losing momentum and because of that , driven to imprudent acts : |
| 4 | The Wimbledon midfield player was severely punished for his oration in ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ , a video in which he describes a host of footballers ' dirty tricks . |
| 5 | A prolonged breather , during which he took a bar of chocolate out of his pocket and unwrapped it in a leisurely way . |
| 6 | He also needed the London underground , for which he had a love/dread relationship , and the London theatre , not of the new kind , but , when available , of the old music hall tradition and , when in season , the pantomime . |
| 7 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 8 | In spite of his asthma and short-sightedness , Hornung was a competent club cricketer , a game for which he had a passion ; he was proud of his membership of the MCC , to which he was elected in 1907 . |
| 9 | The earldom of Derby was conferred on Henry of Grosmont , son and heir of the Earl of Lancaster , and Hugh Audley , the old rival of the Despensers , received the earldom of Gloucester , to which he had a claim by virtue of his marriage to the second of the coheiresses of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester who fell at Bannockburn . |
| 10 | After crouching by it for several minutes , sifting through the contents , he uttered a triumphant ‘ Aha ! ’ and pulled out a large framed photograph , from which he blew a cloud of dust before placing it on the desk and inviting Harry to look at it . |
| 11 | In 1960 James published a personal study of his time with the P.N.M. , ‘ Party Politics ’ , in which he managed a retort to Dr.Williams that was equally as terse but considerably more acerbic : ‘ In my time here I have ‘ discussed ’ socialism with Dr.Williams for at most three minutes . ’ |
| 12 | Their vision was of a functionally differentiated society in which ‘ the individual is now created by the social organism of which he forms a part ’ and in which a state , founded on democracy tempered by respect for the expert , is required to co-ordinate the social order . |
| 13 | The year 1912 also saw the beginning of the Marconi campaign , in which he attacked a group of Liberal cabinet ministers , including the attorney-general , Sir Rufus Isaacs ( later first Marquess of Reading , q.v. ) , who had profited on the Stock Exchange through illegal inside knowledge . |
| 14 | Robson 's work was influential , partly because in 1874 he published School Architecture , a book in which he illustrated a number of London Board schools . |
| 15 | Now Bill , veteran of scores of television and newspaper forecasts , has produced a book in which he opens a treasure-chest of weather fact , fiction and folklore . |
| 16 | Illness prevented him from sitting the honours examinations and he received an aegrotat in 1849 , after which he spent a year in Scotland reading for holy orders . |
| 17 | He left Aberystwyth in 1935 with a first-class degree in history , for Manchester , from which he returned a year later , with an MA , to take a teacher-training course at Aberystwyth . |
| 18 | In the 980s he had followers who took church lands , some of which he returned a decade later , blaming previous actions on bad influence during his youth . |
| 19 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 20 | This was how a Florida man described the graffiti with which he defaced a couple of hundred public library books over a three year period between 1977 and 1980 . |
| 21 | The only recent murmur of dissent occurred in Lord Reid 's judgment in Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Dickson [ 1970 ] AC 403 in which he expressed a doubt as to whether , in a case where a restraint was part of a professional code of conduct , the burden of proof regarding justification fell on the professional body . |
| 22 | But then , much more to the point , the pope went on to say that there was also a letter from Pope Boniface IV to King Ethelbert , from which he quoted a passage laying down that the monastic community of the cathedral church was to be continued by all Augustine 's successors . |
| 23 | Key here was the influence of non-western cultural forms on Artaud — first the foregrounding of actors ' movements and the absence of props in Japanese theatre ; then his exposure to Cambodian dance in 1922 ; but most importantly the Balinese Dance Theatre which Artaud witnessed at the Colonial Exhibition in Paris in 1931 , after which he wrote a succession of now canonical theoretical essays on theatre . |
| 24 | He professed to be unnerved by Wordsworth 's towering self-esteem , which he judged a form of dementia because Wordsworth himself considered that nobody else was elevated enough to measure it . |
| 25 | Houdon ( 1741–1828 ) for the directness with which he conveyed a sitter 's presence and personality without obtruding himself between subject and viewer . |
| 26 | Noell also had Irish interests , for the better protection of which he became a member of the Irish Parliament ( from 1661 to his death ) . |
| 27 | He also exhibited with the Old Water Colour Society , of which he became a member in 1880 . |
| 28 | The Society of Arts , of which he became a member in 1760 , awarded him a premium in 1766 for importing American sturgeon — he informed Benjamin Franklin about a technique for making glue from it . |
| 29 | After which he became a branch official and er and er subsequently became a er a full-time area official . |
| 30 | Educated in Lancaster , Baxendale was from about 1805 in London with a wholesale linen-draper , agent for Bannister Hall , calico-printers of Preston , of which he became a partner in 1809 with Charles Swainson , his cousin through the Salisburys , borrowing his £4,000 entry capital from his family . |