Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 On Nov. 19 , 1990 , Lini conducted a reshuffle in which he took over the portfolios of Civil Aviation and Tourism ; Energy ; Fisheries ; and Foreign Affairs .
2 He was badly injured when a rowing boat , which he took on the lake sank , because it had not been properly maintained by the Trust .
3 He says that he had considered many courses of action , this was one which he took on the spur of the moment .
4 He drank some of the vodka before opening another drawer from which he took out a large folder .
5 Names like Rommel , Auchinleck , El Alamein sounded as common to the ear as Smith , Jones and Robinson ; yet Joe had the feeling that he was being forced to stand on the sidelines and watch a game in which he had not the slightest interest .
6 Worried that the Colonel might leap into army talk for which he had neither the preparation nor the inclination , Hope let flow a hand and beckoned in all about them .
7 Coleman , he wrote , a struggling surgeon ‘ condescended ’ ( why condescended ? ) ‘ to come to our only veterinary college and to teach that of which he had absolutely no knowledge or experience ’ .
8 My great grandfather lost a fortune because he was fascinated by a subject for which he had absolutely no talent — finance .
9 Geoff Link had a firm grasp of classroom techniques and a deep knowledge of children , so he could cope with a small part of his week in exploration of a subject matter with which he had only a tenuous acquaintance .
10 DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time
11 After an early honeymoon period during which he drove underground the anarchist trade union , the CNT , suppressed Catalan nationalism , brought peace to Morocco , and benefited from a shortlived economic boom , Primo de Rivera 's credit gradually exhausted itself .
12 Stephen Maturin , in the dry tone with which he recognises unobtrusively the exuberance and naïveté of Lucky Jack Aubrey , receives the news that ‘ Bach had a father ’ with :
13 All this happened because one of the escaped officers had kept a diary in which he wrote down the names of everyone who had helped him .
14 Some of his achievements are cheered by all , or nearly all : the way in which he stitched together an international coalition against Saddam Hussein ; the way he managed to use the United Nations to prosecute American policy ; his courage .
15 In his work Book availability and the library users , Buckland reports on a study carried out on the short loan collection at Lancaster University , in which he relates both the loan period and the library 's duplication policy to demand for individual titles .
16 Mr Gillis was nick-named the Butcher because in summer he wore a white trilby hat which he hung on the back of the door of his tiny glass-walled office in the corridor just outside the gymnasium .
17 ‘ Any person who on any premises — as aforesaid , carries on an offensive trade without such consent , if any , as at the date of establishment of the trade was required by subsection ( 1 ) of this section … shall be liable for a fine not exceeding £5 for every day on which he carried on the trade — after receiving notice from the local authority to discontinue the trade ’ .
18 There 's a story also of how I supposedly made him do take after take of a scene in which he slides down a rope until he was rope-burned so badly he had blood pouring from his hands .
19 His mills had a reputation for supplying everything from newsprint ( for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s ) to security paper , in which he built up a huge export business to Europe , the British empire , and South America for stamps and banknotes ( his customers included almost all the best-known banks ) .
20 The council decide the policy but the official carries it out , and the way in which he carries out the instructions of the council is in accordance with his recognised professional skill and knowledge .
21 I recently read a paper by an industrialist I greatly admire , Sir Arnold Hall , in which he pointed out the enormous changes that have occurred in such mature manufacturing businesses as diesel engines , electrical transformers , and small electrical motors .
22 Mr. Cooper replied by letter on 9 May 1983 , in which he pointed out the absolute necessity that tenants of the dock company should not be disturbed at a later date and seeking clarification that the council would not seek in the terms of their letter of 31 March to draw a distinction between ‘ extremely detrimental ’ and detrimental .
23 By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind .
24 Soon afterwards the headman came out of the inner room , carrying a plate of rice grains which he put on the ground beside him .
25 An extreme form of the first is the fur trapper in the Russian and Canadian Arctic who lays a line of traps across country which he visits once a fortnight collecting the victims who have died a slow and agonising death with one or two legs caught in a gin trap .
26 Because of his age and of coalition games of musical-chairs , he may nonetheless not win this post for which he has both the expertise and the gravitas .
27 With the exception of the Celtic lands of Wales and Brittany , over which he exercised only a loose over-lordship , he already controlled most of the seaboard of north-western Europe and he was determined to put an end to these exceptions .
28 He opened the connecting door to the garage and stepped quickly into the darkness , feeling his way around the car and to the sliding door , which he moved open a few inches , allowing himself to slip out into the night .
29 Like a foreigner or a man out of his social class , he [ the Rationalist ] is bewildered by a tradition and habit of behaviour of which he knows only the surface ; a butler or an observant house-maid has the advantage of him .
30 Schafer ( 1981 ) offers a useful historical survey in which he shows how the founding fathers of modern linguistics , de Saussure and Bloomfield , reacting against the total neglect of speech in the pre-existing traditions of rhetoric and grammar , asserted the primacy of speech .
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