Example sentences of "[num] [Wh det] [vb past] his [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was , ironically , an exhibition match at Ayr in the late Seventies which curtailed his interest in the playing side .
2 The trials of 1872 and 1873 which followed his exposure and the arrest of several dozen radicals whom he had deliberately implicated gave the case wide publicity , as did Dostoevsky 's classic The Devils ( 1872 ) , based upon it .
3 Within a month of the testimonial luncheon of 29 May 1911 which concluded his Congo activities , the Agadir crisis gave Morel a new cause that enabled him to develop his opposition to British and French policy .
4 Commentators initially understood that his proposals and the WPE central committee resolution of March 6 which adopted his report excluded a multiparty system , and required opposition groups to merge themselves into the existing single party framework under its new name .
5 It may be fashionable to decry Robbins — and many of the universities ' problems stem from the rapid expansion of the 1960s which followed his report — but his pertinent description of the aims of higher education is no less valid today than when it was written .
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