Example sentences of "which he [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | When he took over control , machine tools were steam-driven by shafts and belting , which he replaced quickly by electric power from gas-engine-driven generators . |
| 3 | Recently he penned probably the most abrasively intelligent letter ever to appear in Melody Maker , in which he laid out with admirable succinctness the differences between his pop aesthetic ( making sense of the world , pop as motivator ) and what he identified as the MM aesthetic of pop as dissipation . |
| 4 | Lawrie had 74 and McAllister a 75 in which he went out in 43 and returned in 32 . |
| 5 | These voices were all inside him , waiting to be freed , and the significant point is the formal pattern which he creates out of these disparate personalities . |
| 6 | And that this wealth was not locked in land or designated for heirs : it was fine fresh wealth coming into the great port of Liverpool by the month , by the week even , in the form of Ceylon tea , Indian jute , Irish coal — Mr Crump had an encyclopaedia of imports which he rattled off in diffident haste . |
| 7 | In the first chapter of his autobiography , we have an interesting record of this struggle , which he wrote down in English words but in Greek characters , in order that his thoughts erm should n't be accessible to his family . |
| 8 | The large prints which he brought out by royal command to commemorate the coronation and opening of the House of Commons in 1838 , and the prints he produced , subsequent to an interview with Albert , to commemorate the Great Exhibition , were hopelessly delayed and proved very expensive failures . |
| 9 | Colworth was an Elizabethan house in origin , altered in the 1760s and again about 1810 : it became the principal residence of Magniac , who again extended the house , which he acquired outright in 1854 . |
| 10 | His father wore a cloak of hyrax skins which he received along with other tools of the trade — pebbles , containers and more important , the ability to use numbers to foretell the future . |
| 11 | His love for Edmund is a trust that the bastard exploits , planting a false letter , which he backs up with false testimony , alleging that Edgar would wish to oust his father , a hypocrite 's typical inversion of the truth . |
| 12 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 13 | From Grove School , Eastbourne , and Hanwell College he went to Bonn , which he left prematurely after high-spirited behaviour . |
| 14 | He was a small man , distinctly foreign in appearance , with a rigidly waxed moustache and an egg-shaped head which he carried rather to one side . |
| 15 | Between the bouts of keen pain a curious life took possession of his brain , a life in which kings and queens floated on the water and white-clad saracens rode up and down before a cage in which was a crowned lion , and then , suddenly , the cage was empty and the saracens were knights in armour and the water on which they rode was a mountain like a tree in which birds nested and which burst into flames and was the phoenix ; and somewhere was the Holy Grail for which he reached out in vain , and a jewelled sword , and a unicorn that spoke but said nothing . |
| 16 | Now living in Wimbledon , in a spacious house complete with swimming pool , Crawford went into four months ' training for his gruelling role , starting each day at 6.30am with a four-mile run across the common , which he built up to twelve miles . |
| 17 | Despite natural hardships and TB ( which he resisted remarkably for twenty years ) , he loved life passionately . |
| 18 | In the next four years Cody built some half-dozen aeroplanes , which he flew competitively with considerable success , winning four British empire Michelin trophies and other prizes . |
| 19 | The fable sends the learned educationist home to divide Fred 's knowledge into parcels which he hands out to various expert textbook writers . |
| 20 | Joseph 's reforms led to peasant risings , which he put down with extreme brutality , and to conspiracies among the nobility . |
| 21 | A more general indication of his interests is given by the catalogue of his library , which he drew up in 1632 , when he had just moved house to Long Acre , Covent Garden . |
| 22 | At the same time Fastolf s attitude to the practicalities of war reflect a hardheadedness which was essentially of this world : the plan which he drew up in 1435 favouring a ‘ tough ’ approach to the war made little concession to romantic ideas of chivalry which would influence a knight 's conduct in war . |
| 23 | In most contexts , however , the natural ‘ effort after meaning ’ will impel the hearer / reader to try to co-interpret chunks of language which he finds close to each other on a page , or a stone or a wall and , where possible , to interpret the language as relevant to the physical context . |
| 24 | He also says that 386BSD is the basis of BSDI 's BSD/386 which he worked on in 1991 at CSRG initially under the financial sponsorship of UUNet Technologies . |
| 25 | Early works , like the tomb of Ilaria or the Trenta altar , display an uncanny ability to keep Gothic and Renaissance elements in balance , but Jacopo della Quercia 's gifts found a perfect statement in relief sculpture , from the Fonte Gaia of his middle years to the main portal of San Petronio , on which he worked intermittently from 1425 until his death in 1438 . |
| 26 | Jock set up an old aircraft wing with a tin of petrol inside to simulate a fuel tank , which he propped up on some oil drums . |
| 27 | Consider , for example , János Maŕthy 's ( 1974 ) distinction between what he calls ‘ collective-variative ’ methods , which he connects primarily to proletarian musical practice , and the symmetrical solo song forms typical of bourgeois music culture , from the Middle Ages onwards . |
| 28 | Lagerfeld 's progression from round-faced sixteen-year-old finalist in the Woolmark International Fashion Competition , which he won together with another teenager , Saint Laurent , to his present pre-eminence , has been inexorable . |
| 29 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |
| 30 | Pliny 's standing as author of the Historia Naturalis was such that not a few of the beliefs which he set down without personal commitment have continued to influence popular superstitions for nearly two millennia . |