Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [Wh det] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Astonishingly Mathews , the only member of the murder gang to be apprehended , was given £1000 , half of which he passed to Drury . |
2 | He ended by writing twenty-five pages , some of which he read to Elinor late one night , There were also two longish poems in free verse , which he did n't yet feel quite ready to expose to the world . |
3 | The result was the verse known as ‘ Mythopoeia ’ , some of which he quoted in his essay . |
4 | He spent a year in Britain during which time he was commissioned to write numerous articles criticising Russia which earned him a considerable amount of money , some of which he spent on a very comfortable lifestyle . |
5 | He spoke of a well-off socialist he knew at college ; what irked him was not the socialist views , some of which he agreed with , but the fact that here was a wealthy socialist telling working people what they should think . |
6 | Bakker was convicted of swindling followers of his Praise the Lord ministry out of more than $150m ( £90m ) , some of which he used as hush money for his mistress , Jessica Hahn . |
7 | He embarked on his hobby three years ago and sells examples at modest prices to recover the cost of materials , some of which he buys from America and Germany . |
8 | He made it his golden rule never to attack the Tories without attacking Labour , to keep equidistant between the two parties , to declare constantly that he was appalled by the thought of coalition with either , and would only undertake this under what he saw as a clear ( if only mathematical ) directive from the voters . |
9 | From boyhood Roberts displayed a brilliant and self-tutored mathematical brain and a rapacious appetite for radio knowledge , much of which he absorbed from the journal Wireless World and in public libraries . |
10 | Forbes 's 1989 list of the 400 wealthiest people in the United States estimates Mr Kluge 's net worth at $5.2bn ( £3.3bn ) , much of which he realised in a sale of six television stations to a fellow media mogul , Rupert Murdoch . |
11 | His nightclub act earned him a fortune , much of which he spent on whisky , marijuana and cocaine . |
12 | Much of what he wrote for it was re-used in his highly influential Dictionnaire de musique ( 1768 ) . |
13 | Much of what he says about his money troubles and his illness is consistent with the evidence of extant records which show his salary was often in arrears , and that at the time he says he was ill his salary was being collected for him , indicating his absence from work . |
14 | Much of what he says about the roads and tracks depicted there is perceptive and useful , but even Professor Hoskins is wrong in the attribution of many of them . |
15 | She had been surprised by his view of the Tech-Greens , however , and dismissed much of what he said about them as paranoid hysteria . |
16 | A worker 's average earnings are £100 per week , all of which he spends at an even rate throughout each period . |
17 | That boosted his income last year by a mere £1,550 , all of which he paid to charity . |
18 | This immediate social environment is merely that in which he feels at home . |
19 | David Bailey , the photographer whose lens pinned the swinging sixties forever to the wall , noted in 1985 that the mini-skirt was directly attributable to Jean Shrimpton 's legs , more of which he exposed with each successive photo session despite Vogue 's initial efforts to airbrush in what he 'd hiked up . |
20 | He was in an iron bed which resembled that on which he slept in ffeatherstonehaugh 's , but it had on one side a sad leatherette-and-wooden armchair and on the other a small white cabinet . |
21 | He almost died from a combination of dysentery , malaria , septic sores , and a head wound , and attributed his unexpected recovery to reciting Shakespeare 's plays , several of which he knew by heart . |
22 | He had recently had a starring part and a new girl-friend , both of which he saw as part of a new start in his life , taken away by Michael Banks . |
23 | A product of St Peter 's College , Colombo and Ceylon University , both of which he represented at cricket , he was well known as a commentator and broadcaster before moving to Bangkok where he became Sports Editor of the Bangkok Post in 1963 . |
24 | He described plays and revues he had seen , but most of what he wrote to Hanns was about the ballet . |
25 | He had some notable furniture and possessions , most of which he sold with the house when he moved into The Milebrook . |
26 | Blote himself made use of the BKR scheme for twenty-five years ; during the last phase of the scheme 's existence he sold works to the value of DFl.150,000 to the government , most of which he kept at home . |