Example sentences of "which he [verb] [art] [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 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The heavy hand of a resident father would probably not have stopped him being suspended from school three times , once for smoking , once for swearing and once for self-confessed vandalism ( breaking a rival basketball team 's scoreboard because they played dirty , for which he took a part-time job to pay for the damage ) . |
| 5 | He was educated at Marlborough College , to which he had a lifelong devotion , and at Balliol College , Oxford , where he captained both the cricket and hockey XIs and where he obtained a first class in classical honour moderations ( 1924 ) and second classes in mathematical moderations ( 1924 ) and literae humaniores ( 1926 ) . |
| 6 | He had , however , a natural ability with a penny-whistle , of which he had a great number , one of which he always carried in his pocket . |
| 7 | He was habited youthfully , in black jacket and trousers , over which he had a dripping cape . |
| 8 | McCallen has been having problems with the RVF Honda for which he had a new engine during final practice and as a result , his times have not been up to scratch . |
| 9 | There was , however , always one matter for which he had a personal responsibility which he could share with no one else . |
| 10 | ‘ . Thus if Scargill was satisfied that ( a ) Branch members would accede to a call for a strike by their local officials , ( b ) that those officials would call a strike , and ( c ) that the National Executive ( over which he had a strong influence ) would sanction such strikes , then he could achieve the equivalent of a national strike without submitting it to the membership at large for their endorsement . |
| 11 | For years he was a member of the Saturday sub editorial staff processing the comprehensive sports copy flowing in from all parts of the world for Ireland Saturday Night , a newspaper for which he had a deep affection . |
| 12 | Within days of moving up he assumed a Farmer Giles accent , extra-shapeless trousers ( nothing is so sexless as an Englishman 's trousers ) , broken boots ( ‘ They do n't just let water in , they suck it in , ’ he said proudly ) , and most important , a bucket hat , of which he had a whole series . |
| 13 | The king did not attempt to achieve this by overthrowing or even modifying the constitution , for which he had a sincere and perhaps exaggerated respect . |
| 14 | With great patience and no doubt a certain amount of pride , for here he was expert , he minutely described the cultivation of pineapples , melons and oranges in stoves and greenhouses , cucumbers on hot beds and of early fruits , wall-forced , for which he had a special reputation . |
| 15 | Wigg 's two passions in life were first a constant and continuing admiration for the British army and second a lifelong interest in racing , about which he had a massive and detailed knowledge . |
| 16 | The short judgments proceed on the simple ground that the sheriff was not entitled to retain sums which he had no legal right to demand , but the sums were demanded in return for the rendering of a service , namely the issuing of warrants , so the case is capable of being rationalised on the basis that they were exacted colore officii , a concept which emerged more clearly in later cases . |
| 17 | As David Carlton has written , this plan ‘ represented a willingness to buy off a bully with territory to which he had no legitimate claim . ’ |
| 18 | Lord Brougham held that a debtor should also still be imprisoned if he refused to pay what he owed when he could do so by executing a deed , or if he was culpably extravagant or reckless in contracting debts which he had no reasonable expectation of being able to pay . |
| 19 | So when he said murder , even that was not sure , but it was going to be a relief to be investigating a crime in which he had no personal connection and of which he could not be suspected . |
| 20 | It has even been known for an esteemed binder 's ticket to be transferred from a battered volume to a more handsome specimen with which he had no demonstrable connection . |
| 21 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He was sitting on the ground near his packages over which he kept a protective , hostile arm , as if he did not want anything of his touched . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | What seems abundantly clear is that even if there were not the three months ' residence requirement in the case of Northern Ireland , it would still be necessary , in order to qualify to vote , for a person to have there a ‘ residence ’ in which he spent a substantial part of the year . |
| 30 | And provided that he did have a ‘ residence ’ ( or ‘ abode ’ , the concept used in other contexts ) there , in which he spent a substantial part of the year , it would not be necessary for him to be physically present there for the whole three-month period prior to the qualifying date . |