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 | 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 . |
| 4 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 5 | From Grove School , Eastbourne , and Hanwell College he went to Bonn , which he left prematurely after high-spirited behaviour . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Despite natural hardships and TB ( which he resisted remarkably for twenty years ) , he loved life passionately . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |