Example sentences of "which he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attendant fuss which comes with his being the most likely American to succeed this week is not something to which he takes readily . |
| 2 | The right answer I obtained out of Sir Ian Gilmour 's study of public violence in 18th-century England — a period which he takes literally , namely from 1701 to 1800 . |
| 3 | He was accustomed to conventional envy from some of his contemporaries ( although it could still distress him — Joseph Chiari recalls him leaving a party in Edinburgh because of the atmosphere of jealousy which he sensed there ) . |
| 4 | Polybius gives his reasons for reporting the figures : " so that it may appear from actual facts what a great power it was that Hannibal ventured to attack , and how mighty was that empire boldly confronting which he came so near his purpose as to bring great disasters on Rome " ( 2.24.1 ) . |
| 5 | He remained with Vivienne , the bank , and years of exhaustion in which he came close to death . |
| 6 | It follows from this that any anthropologist who selects a particular category word from his own mother tongue , e.g. incest , marriage , family , myth , religion , and then embarks on some kind of cross-cultural study of institutions which he lumps together under such headings , is begging all the questions which are of serious interest ! |
| 7 | The day on which he pours as much food , drink and bonhomie into them as possible ; and into the gentlemen of the Press , too . |
| 8 | He 's thinking of getting out he 's juggling the offer of his own TV series in LA , which he describes vaguely as ’ something to do with gangs ’ . |
| 9 | The political commentator Hugo Young identifies the nadir of our fortunes as the Cabinet meeting on Thursday 23 July 1981 which he describes as ‘ perhaps the most memorable meeting of the Cabinet in the whole decade of the Thatcher Government ’ . |
| 10 | The pay of David Kershaw , 30 , from Merseyside , a locally-hired computer programmer at Fujitsu is the same as that of Japanese colleagues — which he describes as average because , he says , ‘ the basic pay is so low you end up putting in lots of overtime to bring your income up to the level in England . ’ |
| 11 | Bailey 's chapter ( 4.2 ) ‘ The Challenge of Economic Utility ’ , which comes from his book Challenges of Liberal Education ( 1984 ) sets out to distinguish the liberal goals of understanding from the goals , which he describes as both indoctrinatory and utilitarian , of ‘ respect for industrial and commercial activity ’ , a view based on the goal of ‘ helping children properly to appreciate how the nation earns and maintains its standard of living and properly ( esteeming ) the essential role of industry and commerce in this process ’ . |
| 12 | For instance , in his discussion about " navigable rivers " he actually says that the phrase : ( 24 ) the only navigable river unambiguously expresses the characteristic notion , and not that of being true for some particular occasion ; but this does not seem to give an indisputable picture of normal English usage , and the same goes for his remark about : ( 25 ) the only river navigable which he describes as " unambiguously occasion " . |
| 13 | McCandless kept the woman with him and reached another rock , to which he clung totally exhausted . |
| 14 | There is also the story that at the beginning of the century a person used this lean-to to make sulphur matches which he sold locally . |
| 15 | You 'd spend one hour boning all his big bones they he 'd already took the joints off and your job was to bone it right to the bone , which he sold separately , and today you would call minced beef . |
| 16 | Tributes to Peter Scott continue to flow from all quarters of Planet Earth which he served so wonderfully well and WWF-UK has more reason than most to mark this loss of its Founder Chairman and main source of inspiration since its inception 28 years ago . |
| 17 | I picked up the challenge , which he took very seriously . ’ |
| 18 | It was no model , the New Statesman , which he thought then ‘ superbly written ’ , was . |
| 19 | Yet in Parliament in 1593 he had apparently spoken of the need to maximize yields from royal assets in order to finance the strong army which he thought so important . |
| 20 | And he had a list which I 've , I 've got there and er I think he got two things suggested that were on his list from the group of people who were supposed to be aware and er about twenty things which he thought maybe they should have thought about , and had n't . |
| 21 | Nick was irritated by his tone which he thought deliberately babyish , but Marjorie laughed . |
| 22 | And around this same period , an Englishman reading in the public library at Bagnères came upon an account of the battle of Toulouse in the Napoleonic wars which he thought too favourable to the French , and annotated it accordingly in the interests of accuracy . |
| 23 | Mr Brown has a constant reminder of their week-long adventure in the shape of a beard which he grew specially to keep his face warm ! |
| 24 | That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood — the time when he was his own ideal . |
| 25 | After hearing a terrible denunciation of practices in which he had willingly taken part in the past , we might have expected that he would have wished to have further clarifications before he left Rome , or that some plan of action would have been agreed . |
| 26 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 27 | After an incident at Thaba Ntso on Feb. 12 , 1990 , in which three insurgents and a government soldier were killed , the leader of the Basotho Congress Party ( BCP ) , Ntsu Mokhehle , denied that his party was involved , adding that the Lesotho Liberation Army , a guerrilla force which he had formerly commanded , had been disbanded after its members had returned to Lesotho between December 1988 and February 1989 [ see p. 36677 ] . |
| 28 | Chatichai had turned down the leadership of the party to which he had formerly belonged , Chart Thai , on July 2 citing old age ( he was 70 ) and political reasons . |
| 29 | Michael Swinton watched her in silence as he had watched her before , only proffering as he had done once before a handkerchief which he had plainly also used as a paint rag . |
| 30 | As it was , he had been lifted out of the void in which he had barely existed , on to a plane that was real — he underlined it triumphantly . |