Example sentences of "which he [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 19 , 1990 , Lini conducted a reshuffle in which he took over the portfolios of Civil Aviation and Tourism ; Energy ; Fisheries ; and Foreign Affairs . |
| 2 | He was badly injured when a rowing boat , which he took on the lake sank , because it had not been properly maintained by the Trust . |
| 3 | He says that he had considered many courses of action , this was one which he took on the spur of the moment . |
| 4 | Worried that the Colonel might leap into army talk for which he had neither the preparation nor the inclination , Hope let flow a hand and beckoned in all about them . |
| 5 | Coleman , he wrote , a struggling surgeon ‘ condescended ’ ( why condescended ? ) ‘ to come to our only veterinary college and to teach that of which he had absolutely no knowledge or experience ’ . |
| 6 | My great grandfather lost a fortune because he was fascinated by a subject for which he had absolutely no talent — finance . |
| 7 | After an early honeymoon period during which he drove underground the anarchist trade union , the CNT , suppressed Catalan nationalism , brought peace to Morocco , and benefited from a shortlived economic boom , Primo de Rivera 's credit gradually exhausted itself . |
| 8 | Stephen Maturin , in the dry tone with which he recognises unobtrusively the exuberance and naïveté of Lucky Jack Aubrey , receives the news that ‘ Bach had a father ’ with : |
| 9 | All this happened because one of the escaped officers had kept a diary in which he wrote down the names of everyone who had helped him . |
| 10 | In his work Book availability and the library users , Buckland reports on a study carried out on the short loan collection at Lancaster University , in which he relates both the loan period and the library 's duplication policy to demand for individual titles . |
| 11 | Mr Gillis was nick-named the Butcher because in summer he wore a white trilby hat which he hung on the back of the door of his tiny glass-walled office in the corridor just outside the gymnasium . |
| 12 | ‘ Any person who on any premises — as aforesaid , carries on an offensive trade without such consent , if any , as at the date of establishment of the trade was required by subsection ( 1 ) of this section … shall be liable for a fine not exceeding £5 for every day on which he carried on the trade — after receiving notice from the local authority to discontinue the trade ’ . |
| 13 | There 's a story also of how I supposedly made him do take after take of a scene in which he slides down a rope until he was rope-burned so badly he had blood pouring from his hands . |
| 14 | The council decide the policy but the official carries it out , and the way in which he carries out the instructions of the council is in accordance with his recognised professional skill and knowledge . |
| 15 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |
| 16 | Soon afterwards the headman came out of the inner room , carrying a plate of rice grains which he put on the ground beside him . |
| 17 | An extreme form of the first is the fur trapper in the Russian and Canadian Arctic who lays a line of traps across country which he visits once a fortnight collecting the victims who have died a slow and agonising death with one or two legs caught in a gin trap . |
| 18 | Because of his age and of coalition games of musical-chairs , he may nonetheless not win this post for which he has both the expertise and the gravitas . |
| 19 | Like a foreigner or a man out of his social class , he [ the Rationalist ] is bewildered by a tradition and habit of behaviour of which he knows only the surface ; a butler or an observant house-maid has the advantage of him . |
| 20 | He is probably most famous for his fighter designs during World War Two although personally he was much more interested in small sporting types of which he designed quite a number over the years . |
| 21 | His red Renault 9 , which he bought just the week before , was seen by truck driver Mr Burrige to indicate as it slowed to turn right from a central refuge . |
| 22 | The shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown , underlined this in a speech at Westminster in which he set out a series of measures to stimulate jobs . |