Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] which [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he had hit a patch of false going which caused him to lose his action , or had a fleeting muscular spasm which lost him the use of his hind legs — something like Bryan Marshall had reported after a couple of his races earlier in the season . |
| 2 | These doctors must be grossly overpaid , unless — yes , Toby Latimer clearly had a private income which allowed him to indulge his tastes to the full . |
| 3 | It was Eddie 's refusal to do this and his blind obsession and one-track mind which caused him to lose his family , his friends , his respect , his happiness and finally his life . |
| 4 | Flashback F M rewinds to December nineteen eighty three , from three meet former radio four Today presenter John Timpson with another of his wacky books which takes him all over the country looking at the unusual including some of the things you never knew existed in North Yorkshire . |
| 5 | And unless someone possesses unique powers of extrasensory perception which enables him to influence the balls in the caller 's cabinet , character references are strictly irrelevant to the outcome of the jolly game of life in which eyes look down rather than upward for support . |
| 6 | She 's totally loyal to Charles , absolutely discreet and sees it as part of her duty to provide Charles with those emotional satisfactions which set him up . ’ |
| 7 | The child 's subconscious reaction remains the same and , unless careful understanding is given to him at each stage of his growing up , he will spend the rest of his life in such a way that he reinforces that self-image which tells him that he is not worthy of receiving love . |
| 8 | He walked back by a different route which took him along the waterfront . |
| 9 | Born into a provincial Liberal family in 1858 , Hobson developed unorthodox views which prevented him from securing an academic career in his chosen field of economics . |
| 10 | The evidence suggests that Cade 's support was fairly widely based , and that the strength of his leadership lay in his ability to act as spokesmen for all the social groups which supported him . |
| 11 | To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director . |
| 12 | This is the essential meaning of the old dogma which described him as God incarnate and as our Saviour and Redeemer . |
| 13 | Dragging himself through the daily routine which gets him into his beige-toned synthetic fibres and out of his neo-neo house , he roars off in his Jag ( number plate , VIC 100 ) , fag in mouth , Carly Simon on cassette , ready to take on the world . |
| 14 | In order to claim a scientific status for Marxism as knowledge rather than ideology , or non-knowledge , Althusser invoked Bachelard 's historical epistemology which allowed him to posit the idea of a radical discontinuity between the two , with Marxist science separated from earlier forms of non-knowledge in Marx 's texts by an ‘ epistemological break ’ . |
| 15 | Where , for instance , the characteristics which he attributes to oral communication persist in a society with literacy , and would thus appear to undermine the case for the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy , Goody draws a further distinction which enables him to maintain the purity of his ideal model . |
| 16 | He fired again , and felt the lesser kick which told him the ball had only lodged half-way down the barrel . |
| 17 | The valley of the dry bones and the life-giving water of baptism are traditional Christian symbols , but Eliot remains aware of other similar more primitive traditions which lead him to invoke the Virgin in unusual terms : |
| 18 | His source for this information is not given , but he does mention the existence of documents signed by a man of this name which show him to have been kadi of Cirmen and of Edirne . |
| 19 | It had the kind of social content which stirred him . |
| 20 | If Marcos was cynical , he was no more so than the American foreign policy which kept him in power and in clover for 20 years . |
| 21 | He doubled over , unable to help himself , only to be immediately uprighted by another punch which rocked him back on his heels . |
| 22 | Pound , following a polemical strategy which served him well in the short run ( but which later back-fired ) deliberately provoked the academic classicists of his day ; and his use of his sources , classical and other , was always both hasty and high-handed . |
| 23 | It was his success in this role which made him an obvious choice for prime minister , an essentially ‘ managerial ’ post . |
| 24 | The AP correspondent would then read out the latest dispatch form Teheran and according to the British embassy , " The Shah would then put on his spectacles and , in a charming manner which endeared him to present , would comment in his quiet English on the news . |
| 25 | If Milton adopts a high style which allows him to voice opposition to Restoration politics , is that opposition not contained by this style , one perceived as normally expressing the values of the elite ? |
| 26 | He possessed a charming personality which enabled him to deal easily with all members of the club . |
| 27 | The idealism of Modigliani 's youth re-emerges in this letter which reveals him as modest , humane and a proud father . |
| 28 | He took a gulp at the Scotch and gave a wry smile at the injustices of this world which caused him to be smitten with another one of those blinding attacks just when he was about to make it . |
| 29 | It was the sense of another world which drew him ; the sense he got from MacDonald ( a convert to Broad Church Anglicanism from Congregationalism ) of Heaven being penetrable through dreams and the subconscious and the exercise of the imagination . |
| 30 | This strength which enabled him to do so much for his country against the Philistine overlords was not his own . |