Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [verb] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Hervey-Bathurst inherited Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire four years ago.And ever since he 's been busy restoring the life and colour to both the exterior and interior of the castle , which was built by his ancestors in 1812 . |
| 2 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 3 | In 1873 he published The Art of Sketching from Nature , a sketching manual where he described the water-colour sketching technique , which he illustrated with his own lithographs ; 1874 saw the publication of the History of Holland House which was illustrated by his own carbon photographic prints . |
| 4 | For example , Ron Todd of the Transport and General Workers ' Union blamed the systematic bias and ignorance of the courts , and the new freedom to dismiss strikers granted by this Government , for the failure of the dock strike which was called by his union this summer . |
| 5 | He commenced the building of the great house of Lanhydrock , which was completed by his son , the second Lord Robartes of Truro . |
| 6 | He had a tame magpie which , in keeping with tradition , would occasionally steal shiny objects , and a short-eared brown owl which was quartered in his barn and developed a habit of flying at the heads of visitors and knocking off their hats . |
| 7 | But , as we shall see , the death or Edward I led to an increasing alienation of Amanieu VII from the Plantagenet regime , which was to culminate in his desertion of Edward II for Charles IV of France during the War of St Sardos . |
| 8 | We omitted from these analyses case 15 in table III because this person had an address in another part of Britain which was regarded as his area of residence for the purposes of the national cancer registration scheme . |
| 9 | Eliot once said that all poets would like their work to be said or sung by the common people ( which was realized in his case by Cats ) . |
| 10 | ‘ No , ’ said the Thing , which was tucked under his arm . |
| 11 | Russell , which appeared in the Journal of British Studies vi(2) 1966 , and ‘ The Population of an English Village -1086–1801 ’ by W.G. Hoskins , which was printed in his volume Provincial England ( 1963 ) . |
| 12 | The following year Cook made a bold step to expand and consolidate his business : he opened an office in London , at 98 Fleet Street , which was run by his son , John Mason . |
| 13 | The iron circle which was placed on his head was first raised to white heat , and the peasant leader expired to the taunts of ‘ Ave rex rusticorum ’ ( Živio seljački kralj ) . |
| 14 | In the letters of Henry V , the language was always English , a fact which was noted by his contemporaries . |
| 15 | He points to several factors supporting this conclusion : first , the patient was incapable of making a rational decision ; second , in his clinical judgment , further treatment was called for ; and third , the minor harm of proceeding without consent was more than outweighed by the major benefit , in his view , which was gained from his treatment . |
| 16 | Ellis was the first person to enforce them with determination , but in the end he failed because there were no corresponding regulations in the districts bordering Kurunagala , and because the rules could not be enforced without the very energetic supervision which was lacking after his departure . |
| 17 | A fair haired man with tanned complexion which was hidden under his heavy helmet and dirty face steadied himself down the steps . |
| 18 | According to Filmer , God granted to Adam , as the first King , an absolute and total political authority which was transmitted to his heirs . |
| 19 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 20 | The 12in knife blade which was plunged into his buttock entered his abdominal cavity . |
| 21 | In recent years the Dalai Lama , the acknowledged spiritual leader of an estimated 100,000 Tibetan exiles , had been active in lobbying world leaders for negotiations on Tibetan independence , adopting a higher diplomatic profile which was recognized in his receipt of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 22 | This placement followed the breakup of his parents ' marriage which was acknowledged by his mother , but not his father , as having a serious effect upon Tom 's behaviour . |
| 23 | He opened his diary which was lying on his desk and checked by name against his written entry . |
| 24 | Richard Cecil makes the point in a homily , ‘ On Visiting Death-Beds ’ , which was published with his collected sermons . |
| 25 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes ( 1803–49 ) had an obsession with death , and devoted much of his time to polishing his dramatic poem , Death 's Jest-Book , which was published after his death . |
| 26 | In Ease and Endurance , the continuation of the autobiography which Boulestin wrote in French under the title of A Londres Naguère and which was published after his death in a somewhat harum-scarum translation by Robin Adair ( at one point Adair has Boulestin exploring the Cecil Hotel in a taxi ) , he tells how the place was crammed night after night with customers from the Savoy , Ritz and Carlton belt , stage stars , artists , writers , royalty and High Bohemia . |
| 27 | Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all . |
| 28 | Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all . |
| 29 | He has left behind him a flamboyant monument in Wellington church , Somerset , and the channel known as Popham 's Eau in Cambridgeshire , which was abandoned at his death in 1607 . |
| 30 | The main argument put forward by er , er , was that er was that Wilson suffered as an adult , because of the over oppressed rage he , oppressed rage he possessed , which was directed towards his father . |