Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [Wh det] he [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the blacksmith decides to make some new tongs for himself , he may just look around for suitable pieces of scrap which he will then fashion into the desired tools . |
| 2 | credit card or trading check which can be used only in specific shops ) ; or it is unrestricted , where the borrower gets a loan of money which he could in practice use for whatever he wants ( even if he has in fact arranged to use it for some particular purpose ) . |
| 3 | He did not think that Ramsey would be interested in the load of administration which he would have to carry . |
| 4 | The third possibility is that the plaintiff may take up a position which is not in itself dangerous but where his failure to take precautions increases the risk of the extent of harm which he may suffer . |
| 5 | He shall enclose in the field 32 feet length of fencing which he shall cut and gather in the park for 1 work . |
| 6 | Now he walked with a sense of fatefulness which he would have mocked had it not been so inescapably serious . |
| 7 | He had handled many issues with skill and public spirit and good feeling , but he had no publicly recognized parcel of achievement which he could open from time to time and contemplate with satisfaction . |
| 8 | Although there is no direct evidence on the subject of Richard 's upbringing and education — we do not even know the names of his tutors as we do in his father 's case — it is none the less possible , by using romances and treatises , to reconstruct the type of education which he must have undergone . |
| 9 | ( 4 ) At the hearing the arbitrator may adopt any method of procedure which he may consider to be convenient and to afford a fair and equal opportunity to each party to present his case . |
| 10 | The officer 's power to select what gets known to his supervisor may be exploited to support an image of competence which he can present in the reports he supplies . |
| 11 | But he 's still furious at the conditions laid down by the Department of Environment which he must agree to before the gypsies can stay . |
| 12 | All I had to do was to train chicks on either methylanthranilate or water and hand them over to Roger , who would disappear into the neurophysiology lab with them and emerge many hours later with reams of paper which he would begin to analyse . |
| 13 | It is perhaps for this reason that the Court of Appeal in Faccenda left open the question as to whether an employee could sell the information which was comprised in the skills acquired in the course of employment which he could not be prevented from using himself . |
| 14 | Woosnam has chosen the sort of meal which he would probably plump for at the Golden Lion : leek and potato soup , Welsh lamb with mint sauce , Eve 's ( apple ) pudding , cheese and biscuits , coffee . |
| 15 | As the evening proceeded and conversation unfolded , Jacob was haunted by a sense of strangeness which he could n't quite pinpoint . |
| 16 | He started his tour in Cantyre and only saw Islay from " the lumbering old coach which still runs between Campbeltown and Tarbert " and dismisses it in a single page of material which he could have taken from anywhere . |
| 17 | He started his tour in Cantyre and only saw Islay from " the lumbering old coach which still runs between Campbeltown and Tarbert " and dismisses it in a single page of material which he could have taken from anywhere . |
| 18 | He had helped the actor on one or two cases and found an enthusiasm for investigation which he could never muster for his extremely lucrative solicitor 's practice . |
| 19 | He may have been prepared to accept from Anselm a call for restraint which he would have taken from no one else . |
| 20 | … if the expert added up his figures wrongly ; or took something into account which he ought not to have taken into account , or conversely : or interpreted the agreement wrongly : or proceeded on some erroneous principle . |
| 21 | This paragraph seems to indicate that it may be possible for a person who has received information in confidence which he could have obtained through other sources to relieve himself of the 'special disability " under which he is otherwise placed by going to those sources . |
| 22 | He closed his eyes and went through in detail what he would like to do to the curly-haired tart . |
| 23 | Although the rules do not make this absolutely clear it would be extraordinary if they were interpreted as preventing a party from adducing any oral evidence , even that which had been set down in witness statements served in compliance with the direction , simply because he attempts to adduce additional oral evidence at trial which he should have included in an earlier witness statement . |
| 24 | He will try to obtain by force what he can not achieve by the correct use of the aids as taught by the classical school . ’ |
| 25 | Nothing darkens the directional pate better than John being told by production what he can not have . |